Kathy Cortez
Contact Kathy:
kcortez@lwvil.org
Vice President | Issues & Advocacy
Kathy Cortez has served on LWV of Illinois’ Board of Directors since June 2023. She is chairperson of the LWVIL Issues & Advocacy Committee and the LWVIL volunteer lobby corps. She has served as the LWVIL Issue Specialist for Fair and Affordable Housing since 2020.
Kathy joined the League in 2019 as a member of LWV of Palatine, where she is a current voter registrar and former local League president and chair of candidate forums.
Outside the League, Kathy is a President on the board of directors at Housing Opportunity Development Corporation, a nonprofit developer of affordable housing in the Chicago suburbs and is involved in community advocacy for housing affordability.
Kathy lives in Palatine with Ralph, her husband of 43 years. She is Mom to two grown children and Grandma to four beautiful grandkids. Kathy retired in 2019 from senior leadership roles in healthcare and health insurance operations, when she began to pursue her long-time interests in civic participation and addressing the housing shortage.