Thai Viet Phan

Thai Viet Phan

Member since January 2021

Born: Bangkok, Thailand

 

Representing

City of Santa Ana

 

Current Met committee appointments:

Vice Chair - Ethics, Organization, and Personnel Committee

Member − Legislation and Communications Committee; Ad Hoc Committee for the Department Heads Evaluation Process

Professional and community activities:
Thai Viet Phan is a municipal law attorney with the Orange County-based firm Rutan & Tucker and serves as the assistant city attorney for the cities of Duarte and Menifee.

 

The first Vietnamese-American and first Asian woman elected to the Santa Ana City Council, she was previously a Santa Ana planning commissioner.

 

Phan serves on the board of directors of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Southern California and on the Leadership, Equity, Advocacy & Diversity Advisory Board for the Rancho Santiago Community College District.

 

She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a dual law/master of public policy degree from the University of Southern California.

 

Phan was born near a refugee camp in Thailand after her parents fled the aftermath of the Vietnam War. They settled in Santa Ana in 1989 after months of living in camps in Thailand and the Philippines.