Rosario Marin
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Rosario Marin (originally: Marín) was the 41st Treasurer of the United States from August 21, 2001 to June 30, 2003 under President George W. Bush.
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[edit] Education
Marin is a graduate of California State University Los Angeles, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. She is also a graduate of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Programs for Senior Executives in State and Local Government. On June 15, 2002, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from her alma mater California State University, Los Angeles.
[edit] Public Service
Marin served as mayor and councilwoman of Huntington Park, California a city of 85,000 residents, with a population that is 99 percent Hispanic. She was first elected to the city council in 1994 and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 1999. Concurrently with serving the citizens of Huntington Park, Marin worked for AT&T as Public Relations Manager for the Hispanic Market in the Southern California Region.
During her tenure as mayor, she served as president of the Mayors and Councils Department as well as the vice chair of the Latino caucus for the League of California Cities.
In 1997 and 1998 she served as Deputy Director of the Governor's Office of Community Relations, in Los Angeles, as part of the administration of former Governor Pete Wilson. Prior to this, she served as Assistant Deputy Director of the California State Department of Social Services.
As a result of having a son, Eric, with Down Syndrome, Marin has been very committed to serving people with disabilities.
- Chair of the State of California Council on Developmental Disabilities from 1994 to 1997
- Chief of legislative affairs at the Department of Developmental Services from 1992 to 1993
- Member of the Special Olympics International Board of Directors
Her service for people with diabilities has earned her numerous awards including the distinguished Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Prize given to her at the United Nations in June 1995. Marin was only the second recipient to receive this honor.
Other appointments include
- Chair of the Southeast Community Development Corporation
- Member of the California Film Commission
- Board of Governors for Community, Mission and Lincoln Hospitals and the National Association of Latino Elected Officials
[edit] Treasurer of the United States
Rosario Marin was sworn in as the 41st Treasurer of the United States by Secretary Paul O'Neill on August 16, 2001. Marin was born in Mexico City and is the first foreign born U.S. Treasurer to hold this office. She was the highest ranking Latina to serve in President George W. Bush's Administration.
On December 13, 2004, Marin's successor to the position of U.S. Treasurer, Anna Escobedo Cabral, was finally confirmed, ending a nearly 18-month vacancy in that post.
[edit] Life after Treasurer of the United States
In March 2004 Marin made a bid for the United States Senate from California, but came in a distant second to Bill Jones in a 10 candidate Republican primary for the right to challenge incumbent senator Barbara Boxer.
Following her loss, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed her to the state's Integrated Waste Management Board in April 2004 [1]. She became chair of the board on September 21, 2004 [2].
On January 31, 2006, Schwarzenegger announced his intention to appoint Marin as secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency, an agency which responsible for civil rights enforcement, consumer protection and the licensing of 2.3 million Californians in more than 230 different professions. The position has an annual salary of $131,412, and required her to resign her position from the Integrated Waste Management Board [3].
[edit] Involvement in local politics
Rosario Marin continues to live in the city of Huntington Park, California, where she has great influence over local politics. In 2001 she endorsed Edward Escareno for his successful council race there. In 2003, while Marin was the U.S. Treasurer, she supported the successful slate of 3 candidates to Huntington Park's city council, that included John Noguez, Ofelia Hernandez and Mario Gomez, with Escareno, her protege, acting as the slate's campaign manager.
[edit] Scandal
A website, WatchOurCity.com, broke a story in mid-January 2006 about the fact that Edward Escareno was quietly prosecuted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office and convicted in Los Angeles County Superior court on December 20, 2005 for "Grand Theft", a felony. According to subsequent media reports in the Spanish daily newspaper La Opinion [4], the conviction was evidently kept a secret by both the Huntington Park city council and by the District Attorney's office in order to protect Rosario Marin's public image, as she is closely associated with Escareno, her protégé.
[edit] Trivia
- She has graced the cover of various magazines, including the Hispanic Business magazine, where she was named one of 100 Most Influential Hispanics.
- In 2002, she was awarded the "Groundbreaking Latina of the Year" award by Catalina magazine.
- In 2003, she co-founded The National Association of Latina Leaders, a non-profit created to promote the rights of Hispanic women in the U.S.
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| Preceded by Mary Ellen Withrow |
Treasurer of the United States 2001—2003 |
Succeeded by Anna Escobedo Cabral |
