Gloria Molina, groundbreaking Chicana California leader, dies aged 74

Molina was the first Latina to serve in the state assembly, the LA city council and on the city’s board of supervisors

Gloria Molina, a groundbreaking Chicana leader in California state and local politics for more than 30 years, has died after a three-year struggle with cancer, her family announced. She was 74.

Molina died on Sunday evening at her Mount Washington home, surrounded by her family, her daughter, Valentina Martinez, said in a statement.