Anna M. Valencia

Valencia is married and lives in Chicago. On April 15, 2020, she gave birth to a daughter, Reyana Joy Valencia Kazmi.

She ran to continue her tenure as City Clerk in the 2019 elections. After two challengers were removed from the ballot due to insufficient nominating petition signatures, she was unopposed and won election to a full term.

In the fall of 2016, $1 million was set aside in the City Clerk's budget for Chicago's Municipal ID program which will allow all residents the ability to apply for a government-issued ID. Since taking office, Valencia has announced that the Municipal ID card will be a three-in-one card so that it can also be used as transit and library cards. In December 2017, Clerk Valencia announced the pilot program and that the card would be called the 'CityKey' with the first 100,000 IDs being free.

Valencia was a staff member for Mike Quigley's for campaign for United States Congress in 2005. She worked as a staff member in 2009 on Michigan Representative Gary Peters's congressional election campaign. Valencia was a member of a Legislative Counsel and Government Affairs team for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2011 and later served as its director from April 2016 until January 2017. She was the Campaign Manager on the 2014 re-election campaign of Dick Durbin to the United States Senate. In 2015, she was a Senior Advisor for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s re-election campaign.

Anna M. Valencia (born January 16, 1985) is an American public official who serves as the City Clerk of Chicago. Valencia was sworn into office on January 25, 2017. She was elected to a full term as City Clerk in February 2019.