Wilma J. Pinder, Life Fellow, was appointed to the LA Board of Water and Power Commissioners by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Her appointment was confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council on March 8, 2024 and her term will end on June 30, 2027.
The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners oversees and sets policy for the nation’s largest municipal utility serving more than 4 million residents of Los Angeles, its businesses, and visitors. Her immediate intertest as a Commissioner is in seeing that LADWP fully implements the many outstanding programs already in development, such as LADWP’s goal to reach 100 percent carbon-neutral power by 2035.
Ms. Pinder is a former Los Angeles Assistant City Attorney. She served the city as a civil litigator and trial attorney for 30 years, 20 of those years were with the legal unit that served the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). In addition to serving on the Board of the ABF for 10 years, she also served on alumni boards at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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