Lois Fong-Sakai

Lois Fong-Sakai

Secretary of the Board
Member since November 2021

Born: San Francisco, Calif.

 

Representing

San Diego County Water Authority

 

Current committee appointments:

Board Secretary - Board; Executive Committee

Vice Chair - Ad Hoc Committee on Executive Performance

Member -Audit Committee; Engineering, Operations and Technology Committee; Community and Workplace Culture Committee; Finance, Affordability, Asset Management and Efficiency Committee; Subcommittee on Long-Term Regional Planning Processes and Business Modeling

Water Industry affiliations: 

Registered civil engineer Fong-Sakai, brings experience in water planning and policy, including work as a project manager and engineer for major water projects such as reclamation programs for West Basin and Central Basin municipal water districts, and the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant at San Francisco International Airport. 

 

In addition, Fong-Sakai worked on the Fiesta Island Replacement Project, which relocated a sewage sludge facility in San Diego’s Mission Bay; and the University City Subsystem project to design and build reclamation pipelines.  She also contributed to white papers for the City of San Diego that formed the basis for pursuing water reclamation, reuse and purification projects.  

 

Professional and community activities:

Fong-Sakai has been an active volunteer in her San Diego community.  She is involved in several organizations, including as a member of the American Water Works Association’s Water for People, which raises funding to help plan, design and build sustainable water systems in nine developing countries.  She is past president and a current member of the Society of Women Engineers, California Water Environment Association, and the Asian Business Association.  She has also volunteered with the foster organization Promises2Kids and was named San Diego County’s 2020 Volunteer of the Year. 

 

Fong-Sakai and her husband Willie have owned Jade Coast Software, Inc., a software development company since 1998.  She earned both her master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering and bachelor’s degree in chemistry from University of California, Berkeley.