Juan Oscar Morales is a New Progressive Party (Partido Nuevo Progresista) member of the Senate of Puerto Rico, representing District 1. The district is the San Juan senatorial district. Morales was first elected to the Senate in a special election in September 2022, held to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Senator Henry Neumann, and was sworn in on September 21, 2022. Morales won a full term in the November 2024 general election. Before joining the Senate, Morales served in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives for District 3 after winning that seat in 2016 and being re-elected in 2020, and resigned from the House on moving to the Senate.1
Morales was born in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, on January 6, 1972. Morales holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico and completed graduate studies in human resources at the University of Phoenix. From 1997 to 2009 Morales worked for the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration, the agency that runs the government health plan.
In the term that began in January 2025, Morales holds a post in the New Progressive Party’s floor leadership in the Senate. In February 2025 Morales was added as a full member of the Senate Committee on Municipal Affairs and the Committee on Innovation, Reform and Nominations. Morales has named health care and education among the main priorities of Senate service.
