Making a comeback, far from Washington

Ex-Rep. Katie Hill now runs a homeless services agency in Pasadena

- BY JAMES RAINEY

It’s been six years since a batch of nude pictures ended the meteoric political rise of Katie Hill, a rookie congresswoman from north Los Angeles County who appeared positioned to be a generational leader in the Democratic Party.

A scandal over the published photographs and accusations of affairs with a campaign worker and a congressional staffer (the latter of which Hill denied) probably will linger forever on the internet. But what’s gotten less attention since Hill left the House of Representatives in 2019 is the way she has resurrected her life and career.

She's remarried to a new partner after divorcing the husband she accused of “smearing” her with the naked photo dump. Her son, born in what felt like a “miracle,” given that she has only one ovary, soon will turn 4. And Hill just marked one year heading a Pasadena homeless services agency, which has been hailed as a lifeline by many people displaced by January's fire in “I haven't experienced homelessness but I have experienced adversity and I have experienced life falling apart,” Hill said in a recent interview in her office at Union Station Homeless Services.