Ana Maria Quintana is a proud member of the Southeast Community. Her parents and only brother were born in Durango, Mexico and the family settled in Cudahy when she was nine years-old. She attended the area’s local schools: Elizabeth Street, Nimitz Jr. and Bell High School, where she was Student Body President and Homecoming Queen.
Ana Maria obtained a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in American Studies and a master’s degree at the Universidad de Navarra’s Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales in Pamplona, Spain, where she also taught Statistics and the practice class for Theory of Probability. She pursued her legal education at Columbia Law School, where she was actively involved in the Moot Court program and the Human Rights Law Journal. Ana Maria has developed an expertise in public law while continuing to work as an independent real estate broker and serving on the Bell City Council.
As a Councilmember, her focus has been restoring trust in local government, promoting transparency and accountability, and ensuring the city serves its residents. Ana Maria has organized voter registration drives, townhalls on immigration, know your rights, and first-time home ownership. Her most treasured moments have been the work done through her initiative “Rebuilding Bell One Block at a Time/Reconstruyendo Bell Cuadra por Cuadra,” where Bell High School students cleaned up the city to set an example of civic engagement and the gatherings in residents’ homes organized to give firsthand accounts on the workings of city hall.