Susana Mendoza
| Susana Mendoza | |
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| 10th Comptroller of Illinois | |
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Assumed office December 5, 2016 |
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| Governor | Bruce Rauner |
| Preceded by | Leslie Munger |
| City Clerk of Chicago | |
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In office May 16, 2011 – December 5, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Miguel del Valle |
| Succeeded by | Anna Valencia |
| Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 1st district |
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In office January 10, 2001 – May 16, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Sonia Silva |
| Succeeded by | Dena Carli |
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May 13, 1972 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Truman State University (BA) |
Susana Mendoza (born May 13, 1972) is the current Comptroller of Illinois. She formerly served as Chicago City Clerk and as a Illinois State Representative, representing the 1st District of Illinois – which included the Chicago communities of Brighton Park, Little Village, Gage Park and Back of the Yards. She was first elected in 2001 and served into her sixth term, when she won the election for Chicago City Clerk in February 2011.
Susana Mendoza was born in Chicago to Joaquin and Susana Mendoza, who had emigrated from Mexico in the 1960s The family moved from Chicago to Bolingbrook when she was a child. Mendoza graduated from Bolingbrook High School in 1990 where she earned All‐State and All‐Midwest honors in varsity soccer. She then attended Truman State University, formerly known as Northeast Missouri State University, in Kirksville, Missouri on a soccer and academic scholarship, earning All‐Midwest honors in soccer, and graduating in 1994 with a B.A. in Business Administration.
Mendoza was elected as an Illinois State Representative in 2000 when she was 28 years old, making her the youngest member of the 92nd Illinois General Assembly.
She was Chairman of the International Trade and Commerce Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Bio-Technology Committee and is a member of the Labor, Public Utilities and Railroad Industry committees of the House. Mendoza has served as Co-Chairwoman of the Conference of Women Legislators, and also co-founded the first Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus.
Mendoza was considered a "Blagojevich-friendly" legislator until 2007, when she disagreed with the governor's staff. In 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich blamed Mendoza, along with nine other Chicago Democrats, for lawmakers rejecting his capital bill; he also accused them of holding two taxpayer-paid jobs at once, being paid by the city or state at the same time as collecting salaries as state lawmakers. Mendoza took an unpaid leave from her job as a project coordinator with the city of Chicago when she went to Springfield for legislative business, usually collecting only half of her published $73,000 salary in that position as a result. She replied: “It is an obvious example that the governor is a pathological liar. If he honestly believes, in his lunacy, that 10 people from the City of Chicago controlled the fate of that doomed capital bill, he needs medical attention.”
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