Jerry Amante

Vice Chairman, Mayor of Tustin

Vice Chairman Jerry Amante joined the Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors in December 2006. He serves as the Chair of the Central County Corridor Major Investment Study Policy Advisory Committee, Vice Chair of the Finance and Administration Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee, the Highways Committee, the Transportation 2020 Committee, and the State Route 91 Advisory Committee.

Vice Chairman Amante has served on the Tustin City Council since 2004 where he is presently Mayor Pro Tem.  Vice Chairman Amante also currently serves as Chair of the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency where he serves on the Finance and Operations Committee, the Joint Legislative Ad Hoc Committee, the Joint Financial Options Ad Hoc Committee, as well as the Joint Marketing Ad Hoc Committee.  He is also the Chairman of the Transportation Corridor System.  Vice Chairman Amante also serves on the Newport Bay Watershed Executive Committee, the California State League of Cities Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee, and as First Vice President of the Orange County League of California Cities.

Prior to joining the city council, Vice Chairman Amante was appointed to the Tustin Planning Commission and served as its Chairman until he resigned in 2004.

Vice Chairman Amante is an attorney and is a licensed real estate broker who owns a business, corporate and real estate law firm and a commercial and residential real estate brokerage firm. He is also an Arbitrator on the Panel of Civil Arbitrators of the Orange County Superior Court.

Vice Chairman Amante has a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Juris Doctorate from Southwestern University School of Law.

Vice Chairman Amante and his wife Nancy have lived in Tustin for 19 years. They have two children, Shawn and Paul, and two grandchildren, Erik and Danica.