The Planning and Conservation League Foundation is directed by a volunteer board of directors representing varies regions of California.

  • Chair Dave Hirsch

    Dave Hirsch

    David Hirsch’s background is in both business and law. He is currently a Consultant, Senior Advisor and Trustee for Shell, Chevron, Exxon, BP and Boeing.

    He graduated with a B.A. from Pomona College in 1959. He obtained his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1962. He is a member of the California Bar and recently obtained a Masters in Literature and Art from Oxford University in England.

    Volunteering/Community Service have always been part of his life. He is the Chair of the Debussy Trio Foundation, Board Member of the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic, Board Member and Secretary of the Brentwood Park Homeowners Association, and Treasurer of the Maui Kai Rental Program.

  • Vice Chair Ralph B. Perry III

  • Secretary-Treasurer Daniel S. Frost

    Dan Frost

    Dan Frost is a retired attorney. He is age 75, and was born in Ely, Nevada. He received his B.A. from San Jose State University in 1964 and a J.D. from the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), Berkeley, CA in 1967. He was a practicing attorney at Carr Kennedy Peterson and Frost, Redding, CA, specializing in commercial, real estate and natural resource litigation, from 1967 – 2007.

    Dan was a member of the State Regional Water Quality Control Board from 1971 – 1974 and the California Water Commission from 1976 – 1982. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Planning and Conservation League, and then the PCL Foundation, since 1969.

  • Director Monica Hunter

    Monica Hunter

    Dr. Monica Hunter is a social science researcher who works with community planning and program implementation processes from small to large scale projects. Her reputation for gaining important insights and strategies through ethnographic methods garnered her an appointment by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2005 to the California Central Coast Regional Water Quality Board, on which she continues to serve under Governor Jerry Brown.

See the PCL Board of Directors