Candidate for
Republican Party Central Committee; County of Orange; Assembly District 68

BIOGRAPHY OF MARK LEYES -- REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE, 68th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT

Mark Leyes was elected to the Garden Grove City Council in 1990 and re-elected three times. Mark is now the senior member of the City Council in his 16th year of service.

Mark Leyes is an alternate member of the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee and an Associate member of the California Republican Party.

In 2004, Mark Leyes was honored to be chosen by President George W. Bush to serve as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention where President Bush and Vice President Cheney were renominated.

In 2003, Mark Leyes was a County Co-Chair for RESCUE CALIFORNIA: RECALL GRAY DAVIS and was the Orange County Taxpayers representative for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's "County Leadership Action Team" during the Recall campaign.

In 2001, Mark Leyes was honored by the Orange County Republican Party as the LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIAL OF THE YEAR.

In 1996, Mark was appointed by then-Speaker of the Assembly Curt Pringle to the California Council on Criminal Justice.

Mark Leyes is a native of Orange County. Mark and Wanda, his wife of 18 years, are homeowners and active in their church and neighborhood.

Mark Leyes attended Garden Grove public schools and earned his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Economics from California State University, Fullerton.

Mark Leyes has been a Boy Scout troop leader and a member of the Orange County Council for Boy Scouts of America. Mark is a founding member of the Garden Grove Community Foundation, and a member of the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce and the Garden Grove Historical Society.

Mark Leyes has served as the city's representative on the Board of the Orange County Sanitation District, the Orange County Regional Airport Authority, the Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency, and the West Orange County Water Board.

In 1986, Mark was elected to the Board of the Municipal Water District of Orange County.