Claudia Ordaz Perez
Claudia Ordaz Perez represents Texas’s House District 76 in El Paso County, which includes the Medical Center of the Americas, the Texas Tech Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Native American Tribe, and Fort Bliss.
She is the former Mayor Pro Tempore and City Councilwoman for the City of El Paso, where she was a fierce advocate for working parents and family caregivers. She was successful in creating local policies impacting living wages for workers, local park enhancements for children, funding for new infrastructure for municipal police and fire departments, local animal shelter improvements, and promoting investment opportunities to expand job growth in the Borderplex region.
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