In January 2010, after serving two years as Chair of the Civil Service Commission for the City of Montebello, Carlos Morales Illingworth was appointed by State Superintendent Jack O’Connell to a three-year term on the Montebello Unified School District Personnel Commission, which oversees the selection, classification, retention, and promotion of classified employees for the third largest school district in Los Angeles County.

Carlos grew up in Montebello and obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Cal State L.A., where he served two years as student body president and was commencement speaker of his graduating class.

Carlos has counseled community college students in Los Angeles, consulted K-12 school districts across California and worked for two members of the state legislature. He is currently the Manager of Public Affairs and Government Relations for Vons, where he is responsible for the company’s media, government and community relations programs in Southern California and Southern Nevada.

Carlos is a 2010 Leadership L.A. Fellow with the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and is President-Elect of the Cal State L.A. Alumni Association. He is a mentor at Schurr High School, serves on the Montebello College Bound Today Program Advisory Committee and is a member of the Rotary Club of Montebello and the Montebello-Commerce YMCA Board of Managers.

Carlos resides in Montebello with his wife Corrine, a Corporate Environmental Affairs Representative with The Walt Disney Company.