JUNE WAKE UP! Newport – Orange County Business Council’s Lucy Dunn

Date/Time

Date(s) - 06/04/2015
7:15 am - 8:30 am

Location

Newport Beach Public Library (Friends Room)
1000 Avocado Ave.
Newport Beach, CA 92660

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OCBC works on the cutting edge of regional, state and federal issues affecting the quality of life for all in Orange County.

• Will traffic ever get better?
• What’s happening with water and the drought?
• What threatens O.C.’s economy the most?

Come hear Lucy Dunn highlight the issues— and strategies for success–that affect you most.

LUCY DUNN, Orange County Business Council

Lucy Dunn is president and CEO of the Orange County Business Council, where she leads a dynamic organization of business members, working with academia and government, to assure the county’s economic prosperity and high quality of life. Before joining the Business Council, Lucy served as Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development in 2004. In 2008, she was appointed to the California Transportation Commission and in 2015 was elected its chair. She also serves on South Coast Air Quality Management District advisory panel, Southern California Association of Government’s GLUE Council, Mobility 21, Pacific Symphony, OC Taxpayers Association, and the Association of California Cities–OC.

She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including Orange County Business Journal’s “Women in Business” award, Women in Transportation’s “Woman of the Year” award, Southern California Leadership Network’s Public Sector Leader of the Year in 2012, and the prestigious “Vision and Visionaries” Award from Cal-State University, Fullerton. In 2014, OC Register named her as one of “Orange County’s 100 Most Influential.”

Lucy is an attorney admitted to practice before the California State Bar, the federal bar and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the mother of two adult sons who reside in San Francisco, one of whom is a San Francisco Deputy Sheriff and the other an online marketing director for an international boutique hotel and resort chain.