Judy Abdo

Judy Abdo

Vice Chair of the Board - Organizational, Integrity and Accountability
Member since June 1996

Born: Los Angeles, Calif.

 

Representing

City of Santa Monica

 

Current Met committee appointments:

Vice Chair of the Board - Organizational, Integrity and Accountability − Board; Executive Committee

Member − Legislation and Communications Committee; Subcommittee on Demand Management and Conservation Programs and Priorities

Professional and community activities: 
A Santa Monica councilmember from 1988 to1996, Judy Abdo served two terms as the city’s mayor (1990 to 91 and 1992 to 94). She is a vice chair of the First 5 LA Commission and co-chairs Santa Monica Forward. She is a member of the EV subcommittee of the Santa Monica Environmental Task Force and serves on the board of the Ocean Park Association.

 

Abdo retired as the director of child development services for the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. She was the assistant director of the Norton Family Office and Peter Norton Family Foundation and also served four years as council deputy for the city of West Hollywood, as director of nonprofit Ocean Park Community Organization. Abdo was an elementary school teacher for 13 years and the administrator of the Church in Ocean Park. 

 

Abdo was a long-time member of the steering committee of Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights; she served as chair of the Urban Forest Task Force and the Santa Monica Pier Restoration Corporation, which she founded.

 

Abdo is a member of the Santa Monica Early Education and Childcare Task Force and has been a member of the Lifelong Learning Steering Committee for the Committee for Excellent Public Schools, and the Ocean Park Community Center. She was a founder of Sojourn Shelter for battered women and children and a former board member of the Neighborhood Support Center and Santa Monica AIDS Project.

 

Abdo has served as liaison to Santa Monica's Planning Commission, Environmental Task Force, Airport Commission, Commission on the Status of Women, Commission on Older Americans, Arts Commission and the Recreation and Parks Commission. She has a bachelor's degree in early childhood education from the University of California, Santa Barbara and completed graduate work in human development at Pacific Oaks College.