Commission Assistant Secretary
Port of Long Beach, California

Susan E. Anderson Wise, a longtime resident and attorney in Long Beach, was appointed to the Board of Harbor Commissioners in December 2008 by Mayor Bob Foster. Wise is the Commission Assistant Secretary for the 2009-2010 term.

Ms. Wise was appointed to the Board in 2008 and her six-year term ends on June 20, 2014.

After practicing business and insurance litigation in Long Beach for 35 years, she now is in private practice handling employment and corporate governance matters for various individuals and businesses.

Ms. Wise has served as a mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court since 2004. She has also served as a hearing officer for the Long Beach Civil Service Commission since 2006. She has served in leadership roles with the Long Beach Bar Association, Women Lawyers of Long Beach, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, the Long Beach Legal Aid Foundation, the Long Beach Bar Foundation, the Long Beach Children’s Clinic, YMCA of Greater Long Beach and the Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership.

Ms. Wise graduated cum laude from Lawrence University in Wisconsin in 1970 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1974.

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