Lornna Soto

In 1997, Soto started working as a special assistant to the then Representative for the 38th District of Trujillo Alto, Carolina, and Canóvanas, Iván Figueroa Figueroa. She also worked as an adviser for the Commission of Consumer Affairs of the House of Representatives.

In 2001, she worked with the mayors of Fajardo and Río Grande, Aníbal Meléndez Rivera and Emilio Rosa Pacheco, as a public relations adviser. During this year, she was also in charge of the implementation of the Business Development Center from Loíza, an institution that helps the residents of that municipality with employment opportunities. That year, she also started working in the Health Department of San Juan, where she was in charge of the recruiting of municipalities for the creation and implementation of several health programs.

Soto was elected as a Senator for the District of Carolina at the 2004 general elections. She was sworn in on January 10, 2005.

Soto was re-elected in 2008. During her time in the Senate, Soto has presided the Banking, Consumer Affairs, Public Corporations and Insurance Committees in the senate. In 2012, Soto lost her bid for reelection.

Lornna Soto was sworn in as mayor of Canóvanas on July 1, 2014. She succeeded her father, José "Chemo" Soto, who had retired earlier that year.[2]

On June 5, 2016, she was nominated as the New Progressive Party's mayoral candidate for a full term, obtaining 54% of the vote in a five-way race.[3]

A Democrat, Lornna Soto has attended three Democratic National Conventions, including Denver in 2008, Charlotte in 2012 and Philadelphia in 2016, where she was a delegate representing the Carolina Senatorial District. On April 8, 2016, she was the only woman to file as a candidate for Vice Chair of the Puerto Rico Democratic Party and, along with Democratic activist Francisco Domenech and Democratic National Committeeman Kenneth McClintock has filed a credentials challenge to be recognized as the incumbent Vice Chair. The challenge is pending resolution before the Democratic National Committee and its Credentials Committee.[4]