Center board elects two new members...

Center board elects two new members

The Orange County Performing Arts Center Board of Directors

earlier this month welcomed new members Debra L. Reed and Sally

Crockett.

Reed is president and chief financial officer of Sempra Energy

Utilities, the umbrella for San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s regulated

business units. Crockett owns Newport Beach-based interior design

firm Crockett Concepts. The women will serve three-year terms.

Reed became president of San Diego Gas & Electric in July 2000 and

then president of Southern California Gas Co. in January 2002. Both

companies are subsidiaries of Sempra Energy. She originally joined

Southern California Gas Co. in 1978, and has served as vice president

of human resources and administrative services and manager of

environmental engineering and personnel relations. She served as

senior vice president of the company for five years beginning in 1995

and then became president of Energy Distribution Services, the

company’s operations for residential, small commercial and industrial

customers.

At the 23rd annual Tribute to Women and Industry in May 2002, Reed

received an award from the YWCA of San Diego County. She has also

received the League of Women Voters Glass Ceiling Award. She received

her bachelor’s in civil engineering from USC.

Crockett chaired The Sound of Music Chapter of The Guilds of the

Orange County Performing Arts and its annual fund-raiser for two

years. She and her husband have helped underwrite The Center’s annual

Candlelight Concert.

Crockett opened Crockett Concepts in 1984 and has completed

projects in Michigan, New Mexico, Santa Barbara. La Quinta and

Newport Coast.

She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hills and has lived in Newport Coast for more than three years.

For more information on the Center, call (714) 556-ARTS.