The Honorable Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez
             "Just living the American dream," as she calls it. Loretta is dedicated to a better life for ALL Orange County residents. Her family has lived in Orange County since 1924. Born as an ambitious strong-headed leader on January 7, 1960 in Lynwood California to a Catholic family. Since day one, Loretta had dreams. Now she fights to share those dream with all the people in her district.
             Loretta attended local public schools in Anaheim such as Katella High School. She graduated from Chapman University with her Bachelors Degree in Economics in 1982 as the Student of the Year. She went on to The American University in Washington DC where she earned her MBA in 1984. During the second year of her MBA program, Loretta spent a year in Rome, Italy attending European Community's Market Management School.
             Loretta is a businesswoman. She was a Financial Manager at the Orange County Transportation Authority. She was an Assistant Vice President at Fieldman Rollap and Associates, specializing in advising clients of the firm in the area of public finance - a skill that she has found serves her well in her role now of Congresswoman. Loretta was an Associate at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, putting financing together for municipalities as well as private companies. Loretta eventually started her own consulting business in Santa Ana, again specializing in assisting public agencies and private firms with financial matters, including cost benefit analysis, strategic planning and capital acquisition. She received industry recognition when the State of California selected her to independently review the financial status of Orange County's first toll road to save about $300 million in financing costs. Loretta was elected to Congress in November 1996 and was re-elected to her third term in November 2000 with 60% of the votes.
             Loretta has focused on the issues of: education, public/homeland safety and ...