Mayor Ramiro Garza Jr.
Board Member
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- Hometown:Edinburg, TX
Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, Ramiro Garza, Jr. first moved to Edinburg over twenty years ago. He has worked alongside city officials, serving as the Executive Director of the EDC and as well as Edinburg City Manager for nearly 16 years, leveraging the city’s strengths and growing the local economy.
Mayor Garza ran on a platform of transparency/accountability, initiating a 2040 vision plan and investing in infrastructure to improve the quality of life in our community.
Under his leadership as mayor, the city has brought back transparency to City meetings, initiated the Edinburg 2040 vision, and started working on improvements in all parts of the city.
He has received numerous honors for his work and involvement in the community. He was recognized as the 2017 Boys & Girls Club of Edinburg RGV Honorary Chair for the Annual Benefit event; inducted to the Rio Grande Valley Walk of Fame in 2015 by the City of Edinburg; and was a recipient of Vice President Al Gore’s Hammer Award, National Partnership for Reinventing Government in 1999.
Mayor Garza is a proud graduate of the Economic Development Institute at the University of Oklahoma and completed his education at the University of Texas at Brownsville, where he obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a Master’s in Business Administration.
He is married to Maria Esquivel Garza and is a father to two children, Ramiro Andres and Juliana Audrina.
Garza was elected Mayor of Edinburg in 2021.
