Ana sol gutierrez biography

Ana Sol Gutierrez (born January 11, 1942) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Maryland who was the first Latina to ever be elected to the Maryland General Assembly.
Ana Sol Gutierrez is the first Latina elected to public office in Maryland – in 1990 to the Montgomery County Board of Education and in 2002 when she was.
Ana Sol Gutierrez is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Maryland who was the first Latina to ever be elected to the Maryland General Assembly.

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Ana Sol Gutierrez is the former Maryland’ District 18 in the state House of Delegates. She is the first Latina to be elected to the Maryland General Assembly. She is a member of the Appropriations Committee and has chaired the Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services Task Force since 2006.

Outside of her political career, Guitierrez was director of quality management for Computer Sciences Corporation. She is also president and CEO for Sol Quality Systems, Inc. She has served as deputy administrator of the U.S Department of Transportation’s Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA). Prior to accepting the RSPA position, Ms. Gutierrez was a senior consulting engineer for Computer Sciences Corporation in Rockville, Maryland. She also worked as a senior systems engineer at Loral Aerosys (formerly Ford Aerospace) from 1988 to 1992. From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Gutierrez was a senior associate in the Information Technology Center at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. She received a BS in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University and a MS from American University in managem

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Ana Sol Gutierrez

Prior offices

Maryland House of Delegates District 18

Montgomery County Board of Education At-large

Elections and appointments

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Ana Sol Gutierrez is a former Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 18 from 2003 to 2019.

Gutierrez was a candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 8th Congressional District of Maryland in 2016.^[1] Gutierrez was defeated by Jamie Raskin in the primary.

Biography

Gutierrez's professional experience includes working as the Director of Strategic Information Technology Consulting for the Computer Sciences Corporation, President and Chief Operating Officer of SOL Quality Systems Incorporated, and Deputy Administrator of Research and Special Programs Administration, United States Department of Transportation.

Committee assignments

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Gutierrez served on the following committees:

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Gutierrez served on these committees

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Maryland House of Delegates

In 1990, Ana Sol Gutierrez became the first Latina elected to public office in Maryland when she won a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Elections. Twelve years later, she was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, where she served for 16 years.

Born in El Salvador, Gutierrez moved to Silver Spring as a child when her father was named a founding director of the World Bank International Monetary Fund in 1949. She attended Montgomery County Public Schools, earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Penn State University and her master’s in management technology and computer sciences.

In the House of Delegates, Gutierrez focused on social justice, human rights and education, and championed efforts to expand language access both for state government services and in public schools. A chemist and computer systems engineer by profession, Gutierrez was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 as Deputy Administrator for Research and Special Programs (RSPA) at the U.S. Department of Transportation.