Amanda Cortez

Candidate for City Council (At-Large), Loomis

Amanda Cortez has been married for more than 25 years and has a blended family of six children, three of whom graduated from Del Oro High School; the family moved to Loomis in 2004. She retired after 27 years working as a delivery driver and holds an Associate of Arts degree in Ministerial Studies with a focus on pastoral leadership. She was elected to the Loomis Town Council in 2022, narrowly defeating an incumbent, and serves as the town's representative to the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency. She is active with the Loomis Lions Club and Loomis Chamber of Commerce.

On her campaign site, Cortez lists advancing the Horseshoe Bar Road/I-80 Interchange Project to reduce congestion and improve safety as a top priority, and points to helping secure roughly $1 million in state appropriations for local projects and expanding safe sidewalks and traffic improvements. She also supports creating downtown parking to support local businesses, partnering with the Loomis Union School District on land acquisition, and backing improvements at Del Oro High School. She frames her overall approach as preserving Loomis' small-town character while promoting thoughtful, responsible growth, protecting local control against outside mandates, and maintaining sound fiscal stewardship.

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