The L.A. County Registrar’s Office declared Mary Ann Lutz winner of the election for the position of Area 5 Trustee for the Citrus College Board of Trustees. She announced her win in a video posted to Facebook on Sept. 15.
Area 5 comprises Monrovia, Bradbury and portions of Duarte. The Area 5 Representative position will no longer be on the Nov. 3 ballot as no other candidates filed to run in that district. The current Area 5 Board Trustee, Joanne Montgomery, was first elected in 1999, and her term ends at the end of November.
Lutz has been a Monrovia resident since 1984 and served as the mayor of Monrovia from 2009 to 2015. When first elected as mayor, she was the only elected female mayor in L.A. County. Since then, she was president of the National Women’s Political Caucus of the San Gabriel Valley to further uplift women in office.
“Citrus is unusual in that … there is a majority female board,” she said.
Lutz will take over one of the three open positions left by women on the board who are moving on this term.
“As we lose three board members, you lose institutional memory,” she said.
With the Area 5 position now filled, the Area 1 seat available after the resignation of Barbara Dickerson is still vacant and accepting applications through 5 p.m. Sept. 25. The Area 2 seat will be on the Nov. 3 ballot and has three candidates running for the position.
Lutz said Montgomery was her mentor. Montgomery’s advocacy for education convinced Lutz to pursue the trustee position. One of the issues Lutz plans to address in her community is promoting Citrus and its resources over the other community colleges in the area, such as Pasadena City College.
