Lea was appointed to the Arizona Corporation Commission in 2019 and elected to a four-year term in 2020. She was honored to serve as Chairwoman of the Commission, the state’s energy and water regulatory board from 2020 until 2022. She is the first Latina to serve as a statewide public official in the history of Arizona.

Lea has been an entrepreneur for many years and served as the President/CEO of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber from 2009 until November of 2018. The Tucson Hispanic Chamber serves the business community in the bilingual, bi-cultural region of the Arizona-Sonora border and was recognized as the Hispanic Chamber of the Year in 2013 by the U.S Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Lea won the Republican primary race for Congressional District 2 in 2018. During the race, she received Young Gun status from the Republican National Committee and successfully raised close to $1.5 million dollars from primarily the Southern Arizona community.

Lea has been recognized with several awards including the 2022 U.S Hispanic Chamber Business Woman of the Year, a 2021 Most Influential Women in Arizona Business Award by AZ Big Media and the 2021 Jack Jewett Award by the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership.

She received her undergraduate degrees in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona, and her Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. She is married with two children.