Acquanetta WarrenIncumbent
Candidate for Mayor, Fontana · Mayor of Fontana
Acquanetta Warren is a four-term Mayor of Fontana, first elected in 2010, and the first woman and first African American to serve as mayor in the city's history. She holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Urban Studies from Occidental College. As mayor she championed reconstruction of four freeway interchanges, launched the Mayor's Manufacturing Council, declared a State of Emergency on Education in 2019 and established the Mayor's Education Coalition, launched the city's largest affordable-housing expansion, created The PATH temporary homeless resource center, and founded the Healthy Fontana initiative. She was appointed to the federal Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee from 2018 to 2022.
Positions in brief
Warren points to her record on economic development and logistics, education partnerships, affordable housing, and homelessness response as the basis for her re-election.
Warren's record includes positioning Fontana within the regional supply-chain economy, championing the reconstruction of four freeway interchanges, and launching the Mayor's Manufacturing Council. On education she declared a State of Emergency on Education in 2019 and created the Mayor's Education Coalition focused on workforce readiness. On housing and homelessness she launched the city's largest affordable-housing expansion, created The PATH temporary homeless resource center, and established the Mayor's Council on Homelessness. She also founded the Healthy Fontana community-health initiative.
On the issues
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