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Laura Pastor is a current councilwoman on the Phoenix City Council serving District 4. Laura Pastor is a fifth-generation Arizonan, who graduated from St. Mary’s High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Arizona State University. Her grandparents and great-grandparents worked in Eastern Arizona’s mining communities, and both her parents began their careers as classroom teachers.

For four years, Laura was also a classroom teacher in the Roosevelt and Isaac Elementary School Districts. Pastor currently serves on the Phoenix Union High School Governing Board as the Governing Board Clerk. She was elected to that position in 2010.

In addition, Pastor is the Director of the Achieving a College Education (ACE) program at South Mountain Community College.

Laura Pastor was raised in District 4 (previously District 7).

Phoenix City Council
Laura ran for City Council in 2007 but lost to Michael Nowakowski who still serves District 7 as councilman.

After redistricting landed her house in District 4 and upon the retirement of Tom Simplot Laura ran again in 2013. This time Laura had more experience along with a strong campaign team including José Rivas as campaign manager, the Javelina group as consultants, and Paul Lopez as advisor. Laura came in second place with 33% of the vote to Justin Johnson's 35%. It was widely expected that third place David Lujan's votes would go to Laura in the runoff and indeed she was elected.