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Jeannie Sandoval

Malabon City Mayor

Jeannie L. Ng-Sandoval is the first female mayor of Malabon City. She was first elected mayor in 2022, and previously served as vice mayor from 2013 to 2019.

She first ran for mayor in 2004 but lost to Tito Oreta (full name: Canuto Senen Oreta), who was then the chairman of Barangay Maysilo and president of Malabon Association of Barangay Captains. She tried again in 2016, but lost against Tito Oreta's nephew, then-reelectionist mayor Lenlen Oreta (full name: Antolin Oreta III). In 2013, she ran again for mayor and finally won, beating Lenlen's brother Enzo (full name: Jose Lorenzo Oreta).

She had also served as chairperson of the Philippine Red Cross-Malabon City Chapter, president of Genesis Industrial Gases Corporation, and president of Soroptimist International of Malabon. She was invited to speak at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

In 2020, she joined the board of directors of the Development Bank of the Philippines. She signed in 2022 a memorandum of agreement with DBP and the Universal Storefront Services Corporation to launch the Malabon Ahon Blue Card, created to help facilitate the distribution of financial help and other social programs and services to residents.

A computer science graduate from De La Salle University, she is married to former Malabon representative Federico "Ricky" Sandoval II. In 2017, complaints were filed against the couple and 10 others for alleged irregularities in the release of P20 million in Priority Development Assistance Fund to Pamamalakaya Foundation Inc., where she was listed as an incorporator. The Office of the Ombudsman dismissed the complaints.

She trended on social media in 2024 as she joined the city government’s rescue team during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Carina. She was seen, fully made-up, aboard a small boat alongside other rescuers, with an assistant wading in flood water while holding an umbrella for her. She explained that they were in fact transporting a woman who was about to give birth.