Lance Simmens

Vice President

Lance currently serves as Public Works Commissioner for the City of Malibu, is a member of the Malibu Community Emergency Response Team (“CERT”), a regular contributor to the Malibu Times column From the Left, and is past President of the Malibu Adamson House Foundation.  Lance has spent four decades in senior level positions in public policy, politics, and government. He has served in two Presidential Administrations (Carter and Clinton), two U.S. Senators, two Governors, the Georgia State Senate, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and the Presidential Commission on Year 2000 Conversion.

He received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Georgia Southern University, his Masters in Public Administration from Temple University, completed his doctoral courses at George Washington University and has received certification in Environmental Economics from the Harvard Institute   or International Development and the Senior Managers in Government Executive program at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard.