For over 30 years Claire Schlotterbeck has led the effort to establish 14,100 acre Chino Hills State Park, a park that lies at the juncture of four of California’s most rapidly growing and urbanized counties.

This has become the most expensive and complicated array of acquisitions in State Park history yet the Park lies within an hour’s drive of half of the state’s population.

Claire currently serves as Executive Director of Hills For Everyone and is leading the four county cooperative effort to protect a backbone and backdrop of open space known as the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor.

Active in her own community, she helped create the Brea Senior Center and the Brea Community Center. Claire also serves as a Board Member of UCLA UniCamp, UCLA’s official student charity.

Ms. Schlotterbeck received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UCLA and her masters from Purdue University.

Claire has also served as a consultant to the California State Parks Foundation, Friends of the Newport Coast, Friends of Harbors, Beaches and Parks, Laguna Greenbelt and Laguna Canyon Foundation.

She is the mother of three children.

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