Girmay Zahilay took the oath of office to become the seventh person elected to the position of King County executive.

Zahilay was sworn into office by U.S. District Court Judge Richard A. Jones Nov. 25 in the chambers of the King County Council in Seattle.

Zahilay assumes leadership of more than 18,000 employees and representation of more than 2.3 million people in the 12th largest county in the United States, according to a Nov. 25 news release from the King County Executive Press Office.

At 38 and born in Sudan, he becomes the youngest person ever to hold the office, the first immigrant, the first refugee and the first millennial, according to the news release. He is also the first person ever elected to the office to live outside of Seattle with a home in Tukwila. He immigrated to th

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