AMERICAN STATES WATER (AWR)
Sector: Utilities
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Sector: Utilities
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Director information for AWR
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| AWR | Independent Director | 75 | ["President and Chief Executive Officer of The Bont\u00e1 Group", "President and Chief Executive Officer of The California Wellness Foundation", "Vice President of Public Affairs of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals", "first Latina director of the California Department of Health Services", "trustee of the Annie E. Casey Foundation", "Governance Committee chair since 2023", "board member of the Good Hope Medical Foundation", "board of directors and foundation board of trustees at Children\u2019s Hospital of Los Angeles", "board member at the Archstone Foundation", "commissioner of the City of Los Angeles Board of Fire Commissioners", "director/trustee of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science", "director/trustee on the Department of Health and Human Services Minority Health Committee", "doctorate and master\u2019s degrees in public health from UCLA", "adjunct professor at UCLA\u2019s School of Public Health", "registered nurse"] | ["Nominating and Governance", "Compensation"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Dr. Bont served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Bont Group for ten years prior to her retirement in March 2024. The Bont Group provided consulting services in the healthcare area. Previously, Dr. Bont served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The California Wellness Foundation, a private independent foundation with a mission to improve the health of people in California. She has also served as the Vice President of Public Affairs of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, Southern California Region, where she was responsible for setting the Region s public policy agenda and providing leadership and oversight of public affairs programs and support for Kaiser Permanente s external communications and reputation management. Dr. Bont also served as the first Latina director of the California Department of Health Services. Prior to serving as director of the California Department of Health Services, Dr. Bont served as director of the Department of Health and Human Services of the City of Long Beach, California. She has been a trustee of the Annie E. Casey Foundation since 2008 and a Governance Committee chair since 2023. She is also a board member of the Good Hope Medical Foundation, and has been a member of the board of directors and of the foundation board of trustees at Children s Hospital of Los Angeles since 2019. Previously, Dr. Bont was a board member at the Archstone Foundation from 2009-2021 and had served as the chair of its board of directors and audit committee. She has served as a commissioner of the City of Los Angeles Board of Fire Commissioners as an appointee of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and as a director/trustee of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. She served as a director/trustee on the Department of Health and Human Services Minority Health Committee, as an appointee of both California Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Board of Trustees of the Health Professions Education Foundation. She holds doctorate and master s degrees in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She held an appointment as an adjunct professor at UCLA s School of Public Health from 1999 to 2023 and is a registered nurse.