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Frank J. Martinez Born in 1958 and raised in Eloy, Arizona where he graduated in 1977. Attended Mesa Community College and played baseball as well as earned his Associate of Arts Degree with distinction. Graduated from Arziona State University in 1986 and went on to become a management executive in a major retail store. He served as Executive Director for a statewide non profit organization in Arizona and lead the Rocky Mountain High Coalition as the lead agency in operating government funding to several organizations in states including New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Texas, and Okalahoma. in 1999 he Founded and became CEO of a Community Lending Organization which helped promote an understanding of mortgage lending products in Arizona and one of the first structured non profit mortage lending entities in the nation. An article supported by the Ford Foundation of the operations of non profit mortgage companies can be found in the LISC Archives featured "Non Profit Mortgage Brokers".

He is currently the Senior Loan Officer for Housing Assitance Council in Washington DC and belongs to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Low Income Housing Coalition and many other housing advocate organizations. He still maintains strong ties to Arizona and is married to Lizette. He continues to have input with major lending support systems throughout the United States to foster better relationships between lending institutions and assist in affordable housing development projects aimed to serve low to moderte income families.