Vera Ortegon National Committee Women For Colorado
Learn More About Vera Ortegon
As an engaged community member, I believe in helping give Colorado’s local citizens a voice. I will work with new administration to change this broken system, and this is why I am proud to be your National Committeewoman.
I am proud to fight for Colorado’s concerns and needs on the national level, ensuring important issues are heard in Washington D.C.
I Fight For Colorado. For Us. For You
Professional Experience
Business Experience: 1976 – Present
My late husband and I started several businesses and real estate partnerships that I still manage today. I am the managing partner of the real estate property management company where our main holdings are rental apartment buildings and commercial properties. I am also the President and Administrator of Adult Medicine Specialists (AMS)- a healthcare clinic that continues to serve, since 1981, the residents of Pueblo.
RNC National Committeewoman (CO): 04/16 – Present
I have been elected and re-elected as Colorado’s National Committeewoman to the Republican National Committee by the GOP delegates at the State Assembly.
Pueblo City Council: 02/07 – 12/11
I was appointed and then elected to Pueblo City Council. During my tenure, I have been involved deeply in the yearly budget preparation. In 2009, I was chosen by my colleagues to be Council President.
Board of Water Works; Pueblo, Colorado: 01/96 – 02/07
Elected twice for six-year terms by the citizens of Pueblo to a five-member board. The main focus is to protect the water, especially when it deals with quality, water rights, yearly budget, assets and investments
Southeastern Colorado Conservancy District Board: 04/04 – Present
Appointed as the Pueblo County representative for a four-year term on this fifteen-member board that oversees the administration and development of the Fryingpan-Arkansas River Project.
Office of Economic Development and International Trade: 01/99 – 03/04
Appointed by Governor Owens to oversee business and economic development for Pueblo and Southern Colorado. The main responsibility is attracting, expanding and retaining jobs for the fifteen counties in Southern Colorado.
More About Me
- Born and raised in Colombia, South America.
- Legally Immigrated to United States. Naturalized in 1976.
- Obtained a degree in Microbiology and Biochemistry from Rutgers University.
- Married for thirty-nine years to Dr. Anthony Ortegon, a local physician.
- I have two sons, Anthony and Arthur, two daughters-in-law, Courtney and McKinsie, and have two grandchildren, Bennett and Olive.
Community Involvement
As a resident of Pueblo for the last 35 years, Ms. Ortegon has been an active community supporter and local business owner. She is, or has been, involved in numerous boards, such as the following:
- Action 22
- Economic Council of Colorado
- Frequent guest at the Colorado State of Mind television show
- Planning and Zoning Commission, Pueblo, CO
- Southern Colorado Community Foundation
- Citizens Advisory Committee to the Pueblo Chemical Depot
- Women Economic Council of Colorado
- St. John Neumann Catholic School, Pueblo, CO
- Historic Arkansas River Project (HARP) Authority, Pueblo, CO
- Welfare Director Screening Committee
- Children’s Museum – Education Committee
- Rocky Mountain Center for Healthcare Ethics
- Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, CO
- The 2010 Commission – Economic Development Committee
Highlights in Politics & Business
In 2014, Mike Kopp, GOP CO gubernatorial candidate, chose her as his Lieutenant Governor candidate.
In 2012, she was one of the nine GOP Presidential Electors for the State of Colorado.
From 2004 – 2012, appointed by the Chief Water Judge, she served the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District; being the first woman to ever serve on this board. She is the current Chair of the Resource & Engineering Planning Committee.
In 2007, she was appointed to the Pueblo City Council to fill a vacancy. She was elected to the Pueblo City Council for a four year term, during which she was named President of Pueblo City Council.
In 2006, she was appointed to the 10th Judicial District Nominating Commission for five years.
In 1999, she was appointed by Governor Bill Owens (R-CO) as the Economic Development Representative for Southeastern Colorado for six years. This position entailed attracting, expanding and retaining jobs for Southern Colorado.
In 1998, she ran unsuccessfully for CO State Senate (District 3).
In 1995, she was elected to the Board of Water Works. In 2001, she became the first woman and the first Hispanic to be elected President of the Board of Water Works.
She has been a precinct chair for the CO Republican Party for the past 20 years.
She is the owner and managing partner of two commercial/residential real estate enterprises. She also manages a health care corporation, which includes six medical providers and two locations in Pueblo.