This week we are pleased to begin sharing details of Councilmember Agran’s appointments to various City commissions and boards.

First up is Lauren Johnson-Norris to the Finance Commission.

The Finance Commission is responsible for providing City Council advice regarding the funding of activities and programs and ensuring the overall efficiency of spending on behalf of taxpayers. Tonight, Commissioner Johnson-Norris and her colleagues will meet to review the impact of COVID-19 on the City’s two- and five-year budget forecasts, among other items. It’s a big job and we are confident Lauren will support the commission with great insight and leadership as Irvine moves to cope with and recover from the ongoing impacts of COVID-19.

For more on the meeting agenda, past meeting minutes, comment options and more, please visit: https://www.cityofirvine.org/financial-management-and-strategic-planning-department/finance-commission-agendas-minutes.

Lauren regularly posts updates on her Finance Commission to Facebook. To keep up with her work in real-time, click here.

About Commissioner Lauren Johnson-Norris

Lauren Johnson-Norris is a litigator, small business owner, and Irvine resident who previously served as Chair of the Irvine Community Services Commission. Her law practice includes complex white-collar, criminal law and child welfare matters in trial and on appeal. Lauren’s education has been founded in excellence, first at a distinguished national private university, Pitzer College, and then at one of the fastest academically rising law schools in the nation, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. The law school awarded Lauren the Archie A. Gorfinkle Award for “The Most Promising Graduate Entering the Field of Criminal Law.” Lauren is a graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyer College and has provided seminars and continued legal education programming across California. A distinguished advocate on appeal, Lauren has served as attorney of record in over 350 appeals and writs and argued and won the landmark case, In re Drake M. (2012) 211 Cal.App.4 th 754. Lauren has been recognized as a “SuperLawyer Rising Star” and “Top Women Lawyers in Southern California,” is the Past-President of the South Orange County Bar Association, and was recognized by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris as a 2020 Assembly District 74 Woman of Distinction and awarded the Outstanding Supporter of Prevention Award by the County of Orange. She also served for four years as the Chair of the Irvine Children Youth and Families Advisory Committee. Lauren lives in University Park with her husband, twin eight-year-old daughters, two black cats, and a labrador retriever.