BIO

Rex has been married to Janet Adamson Gutierrez for 37 years. They have three children—Alison, Anna and Rex Elias. As a councilman and Mayor Pro Tem, Rex worked with an amazing team of council colleagues and staff to develop a great city. The Victoria Gardens mall, Day Creek Boulevard Miracle Mile, Quakes Baseball Epicenter, Central Park Senior Center and Pacific Trail System were all built under Rex’s council tenure. He owns The Grapevine Press—Pride of Cucamonga newspaper.
Rex was born in Biloxi, Mississippi to Air Force Technical Sergeant Carlos Gutierrez and his wife Lucy, both from Texas. He was raised with nine other siblings in a household of faith. Rex attended school in Rome, New York; Gulfport, Mississippi; Eureka, California; Delano, California and at the University of Southern California, where he graduated with honors in 1983. As an American, and not as a Latino, Rex entered the mostly White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant Wall Street industry, working as an Investment Executive at PaineWebber, formerly Kidder Peabody and now the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS). He stayed nine years as a stockbroker. After one hung jury, an ambitious, corrupt DA tried Rex before yet another jury to finally get rid of him. They haven’t gotten rid of him yet.