Commissioner Jacqueline A. Guzman
City of Sunrise Commission, Seat D

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Jacqueline A. Guzman has served on the boards of two National League of Cities (NLC) constituency groups—Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO) and Women in Municipal Government (WIMG)—since 2022, and in 2024 she was appointed as member of the Council on Youth, Education and Families (YEF). She was elected to the Sunrise City Commission in November of 2020 and re-elected in 2022. During her 2020 campaign, Commissioner Guzman made Sunrise election history with close to 20,000 votes. She is the first Latina (Puerto Rican) female elected in Sunrise. Commissioner Guzman was born in Brooklyn, New York and has been raising her family in the City of Sunrise.

Commissioner Guzman attended Piper High School during her freshman year and graduated from South Plantation High. Commissioner Guzman graduated in 2016 with her Associate's Degree in Healthcare from Las Vegas College in Nevada, and continued her education in Substance Abuse and Addictions Counseling.

Commissioner Guzman has been an active member of her community and has served as a volunteer and board member with the American Heart Association (AHA). As a two-time heart attack survivor, Commissioner Guzman was moved to pursue advocacy in Heart Health Awareness for the AHA. Additional community advocacy led her to be nominated for Elected Official of the Year by the TaskForce Fore Ending Homelessness.   She currently serves as a board member for both HandsOn Broward and the Community Action Agency of Broward County, a Child Advocate with the Guardian ad Litem Program, and a voting delegate for Broward League of Cities (BLC). Her prior experience includes service as a BLC Youth Leadership Committee Member, a longtime volunteer coach for the City of Sunrise, and the PTO President at Westpine Middle School where she founded Panthers with a Purpose, a volunteer program for students. She continues to be a strong supporter of youth and teen programming in the City.

As the daughter of a small business owner and a minority small business owner in her own right, Commissioner Guzman is a great supporter of Sunrise businesses. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she recognized a need to help business owners navigate through challenging times. In 2021, Commissioner Guzman expressed her strong support for the City’s new Sunrise Small Business Academy, which was unanimously approved by the City Commission.