and public safety policy while advancing transparency and economic opportunity. Beginning his public service career in 1993, he later served as attorney general, electoral commissioner and secretary general of the New Progressive Party before his election to the Senate in 2008. Since then, Rivera Schatz has continued to champion policies that promote well-being and social equity.

the 12th elected official to lead this legislative body in two separate terms.  Over the past two decades, he has worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life on the Island, spearheading major changes in the areas of adoption, tax relief to the middle class and small business, as well as overseeing the nation’s largest energy reconstruction through the 2019 Energy Public Policy Act.