The Santa Monica Community College District Personnel Commission has recently appointed Lawrence Leone to fill the seat, vacated by the recent retirement of Dolores Press.
Leone will be serving a three-year term through Dec. 1, 2016, college officials said. Press had served since 1998.
The Personnel Commission selected Leone from among six applicants to fill the seat.
The five-member commission is the public body responsible for the administration of the college's Merit System, a civil service system for classified employees and for fostering the advancement of a career service for such employees. To execute these responsibilities, the State Education Code provides that the commissioners shall classify positions; hear appeals of disciplinary and dismissal matters, and protests involving examinations, selection and appointment procedures; and prescribe rules related to a variety of personnel practices.
Leone has been a practicing attorney in family law since 1977, and a resident of Santa Monica since 1973. He has served as a board member and trustee with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation Board and is a former chair of the Family Law Section.
He has served as a judge pro tem on over 100 occasions and is chief counsel for Island Outpost, an educational nonprofit organization.
He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University Law School and the UCLA, with high honors.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 21, 2014. Read the original PDF.