Christina L. Shea

Christina Shea is the Mayor of Irvine in California. Shea assumed office in 2019. Shea’s current term ends in 2020.

Shea ran for re-election for Mayor of Irvine in California. Shea lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Shea assumed the position in April 2019 after Donald P. Wagner left office to join the Orange County board of supervisors.^[1] Shea previously served as mayor of Irvine from 1996 to 2000.

Shea was a member of the Irvine City Council in California from 2012 to 2019.^[2] She was also a member of the city council from 1992 to 1996 and from 2002 to 2010.^[3][4]

Although city council elections in Irvine are officially nonpatisan, Shea is known to be affiliated with the Republican Party.^[5]

Biography

Shea studied political science at Irvine Valley College and California State University, Fullerton.^[6]

As of her run for re-election in 2016, Shea was a real estate agent with Prism Link Properties and the president of her own government relations firm, Shea Consulting. Her professional experience also includes work in government relations for Kia Motors and as a real estate agent for Realty ONE and Century 21.^[6]

Shea has served as vice president of the Irvine Community Land Trust and chair of the Task Force to Review Housing Needs of the Developmentally Disabled, the Ad Hoc Veterans Affordable Housing Committee, and the Orange County Great Park Board of Directors. She has also been a member of the Ad Hoc Great Park Forensic Audit Committee, the Irvine Unified School District Liaison Committee, the Orange County Sanitation District, and the boards of the American Cancer Society, the El Toro Reuse Planning Authority, Human Options, the Irvine Child Care Project, and the Transportation Corridor Agencies.^[4]

In 2008, Shea was named District 70‘s Woman of the Year by then-California Assemb. Chuck DeVore. She has also been named an Orange County Leader of the Year by the California Women’s Leadership Association and one of Orange County Metro Magazine’s Most Influential Women in Orange County.^[4