Mayor JERRY AMANTE currently serves as a Director of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) where he serves as Vice Chair of its Finance and Administration Committee and as a member of the Regional Planning and Highways Committee, the State Route 91 Advisory Committee, the Transportation 2020 Committee, and the South Orange County Major Improvement Study Committee. He is Chair of the Central County Major Investment Study. He also serves as Chair of the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and as the Chair of the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) where he serves on its Finance and Operations Committee and as a member of its Legislative Committee. He also serves as a member of TCA’s Joint Ad Hoc Financial Options Committee made up of members of the Boards of Directors from each of the toll road agencies. Mayor Amante is a member of the Newport Bay Watershed Executive Committee, the California State League of Cities Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee and is the First Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of the Orange County Division of the League of California Cities and is a member and former Chair of the Orange County League of Cities Advocacy Committee. Mayor Amante also serves as a member of the County of Orange’s Growth Management Area Committee and as an alternate for the Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency, Santa Ana/Tustin Joint Powers Agency, the Orange County Library Board, and the Riverside Orange County Authority (ROCA).

Prior to his election to the City Council, he was appointed to the Tustin Planning Commission and served as its Chairman until he resigned in 2004 to run for office.

He has been active in the community in a variety of capacities. He is a member and Pillar Sponsor of the Tustin Chamber of Commerce and has served on its Government Affairs Council and its Business and Economic Development Council. He is a proud graduate of the Tustin Citizens Police Academy. He is a member of, has volunteered for, supported and/or contributed to many community and civic organizations including the Tustin Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off Committee, the Tustin Boys and Girls Club, the Tustin American Legion, the Tustin Senior Center, the Tustin Public Library, the Tustin Area Historical Society, the Tustin Public Schools Foundation, the Tustin Millennium Exchange Club, the Tustin Community Foundation, the Orange County Lincoln Club, the Orange County Rescue Mission, the Orange County Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse, and he currently serves as President of the Family Violence Project.

Mayor Amante has a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Juris Doctorate from Southwestern University School of Law. He is admitted to all California State and Federal Courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also a licensed real estate broker. He owns a law firm that specializes in advocacy, strategy and government relations and owns a commercial and residential real estate brokerage firm. In addition, he is an Arbitrator on the Panel of Civil Arbitrators of the Orange County Superior Court.

Mayor Amante and his wife Nancy have lived in Tustin for 21 years. They have two children, Shawn and Paul, and two grandchildren, Erik and Danica.