33 Facts About Sheila Kuehl

Sheila James Kuehl was born on February 9,1941 and is an American politician and retired actress, who served as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 3rd District from 2014 to 2022.

Sheila Kuehl's father, Arthur, was an airplane construction worker at Douglas Aircraft.

Sheila Kuehl was Catholic and her mother, Lillian, was Jewish.

At age seven, Sheila Kuehl began to take tap dancing lessons.

In one recital, Sheila Kuehl played an assistant in a skit called "The Old Sleuth" where she sat under a table listening for clues.

Sheila Kuehl later recalled that Meglin told her mother, 'The kid's pretty funny.

Sheila Kuehl was signed to play Jackie, Stuart Erwin's tomboy daughter, in the television series The Stu Erwin Show, which ran from 1950 to 1955.

At the age of eighteen, while working at the camp, Sheila Kuehl met a twenty-one year-old counsellor named Kathy and fell in love.

Sheila Kuehl was rubbing my back and we just, like, went to bed.

Zelda was originally intended to be a one-shot character in the early Dobie Gillis episode "Love is a Science," but Dobie creator Max Shulman liked Sheila Kuehl and had her signed on as a semiregular cast member.

Sheila Kuehl earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962, during the show's final season.

Sheila Kuehl moved back in with her parents under the cover story that she was homesick, but was still a member of the sorority of which they knew she loved being a part.

Whenever her parents knew of a sorority meeting taking place, to prevent discovery, Sheila Kuehl would go to a coffee shop during that time and return with a story about the events of the meeting that she had not attended.

Sheila Kuehl's closeted relationship with Kathy continued until the beginning of the 1970s, and had lasted 12 years before they broke up.

Opportunities for acting work steadily diminished and Sheila Kuehl was forced to sell her Malibu house.

Sheila Kuehl was able to move forward after seeking help.

Sheila Kuehl then moved in with her then-girlfriend, Kathy, and began working at the UCLA student activities office helping students organize around the rising political movements of the 1960s.

On Petticoat Junction, Sheila Kuehl joined the Bradley sisters in a band called The Ladybugs, which was created to compete with Beatlemania.

Subsequently, the pilot was not promoted and did not sell, but Sheila Kuehl was not told about this immediately.

When Sheila Kuehl was passed over for a promotion that was given to a man, Sheila Kuehl felt that her treatment had been unfair and became interested in a legal career to address the position of women in the workplace.

In 1975, at age 34, after being denied admission into UCLA, Sheila Kuehl was accepted at Harvard Law School.

In 1989, along with Abby Leibman and Jenifer McKenna, Sheila Kuehl formed the California Women's Law Center to promote gender issues, including expanding the rights of divorced women and reforming hiring procedures in male-dominated professions, such as law enforcement.

Sheila Kuehl was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994, becoming the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature.

In office, Sheila Kuehl became a founding member of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus.

When Sheila Kuehl was elected as a Democrat to the California Assembly in 1994, a Republican majority was seated for the first time in 20 years.

Sheila Kuehl served three full terms in the California Assembly, which was the maximum allowed under term limits that had been adopted in 1990.

In 2002 Sheila Kuehl co-authored the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act that defined marriage as a civil contract between two persons.

Sheila Kuehl officiated over the weddings of Torie Osborn and her partner, Lydia Vaias; Jehan Agrama and Dwora Fried; Patti Giggans and Ellen Ledley; Barrie Levy and Linda Garnets; and Avi Rose and Ron Strochlic.

On January 28,2008, The New York Times reported that Sheila Kuehl planned to vote against a health care plan sponsored by Governor Schwarzenegger and supported by a majority of Democrats in the Assembly, while opposed by a majority of Republicans.

Sheila Kuehl served in the California Senate for two terms the maximum allowed under term limits adopted in 1990.

On November 4,2014, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Sheila Kuehl assumed office on December 1,2014, thus becoming the first openly LGBTQ person to ever serve on the Board.

Osborn went on to support Sheila Kuehl's run for Supervisor and joined her staff as principal deputy for strategy and policy.