Lynne Pierson Doti, the David and Sandra Stone Professor of Economics at Chapman University, is the author of Banking in an Unregulated Environment: California 1878 - 1905 and co-author of California Bankers and Banking in the American West. She has also written about 25 articles on banking, using history as a laboratory to test theories of branching, structure and regulation. Currently she is writing a book called Financing California and is the editor of Essays in Economic and Business History.
She has served on a number of corporate, civic, and charitable boards including the board of directors of Eldorado Bank, the Anaheim and Orange Budget Commissions and the state boards of two political organizations. She was an organizer of Plaza Bank and now serves on its board of directors. |