Donald R. Meyer

Commissioner of Financial Institutions

Donald R. Meyer was appointed Commissioner of Financial Institutions of the State of California by Governor Gray Davis on April 4, 2000. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley, a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, and did graduate work at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Mr. Meyer served in the Peace Corps in Seoul, Korea from 1968 to 1970. He was admitted to the California State Bar in January 1972. He was an attorney at Graham & James in San Francisco from 1971 to 1976; Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary of California First Bank from 1976 to 1978; Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary of Union Bank from 1978 to 1996; Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of UnionBanCal Corporation from April 1996 to July 1998; and served as counsel in the San Francisco law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen from July 1998 to November 1998.

Mr. Meyer has been active in the California Bankers Association by serving on its Legal Affairs and Federal Government Relations Committees. He received CBA's Almon B. McCallum Award for outstanding service to the banking industry in 1989. Mr. Meyer has served as the California State Vice President for the American Bankers Association and he was a member of the ABA Government Relations Council for many years. Mr. Meyer has been a credit union member for more than 30 years.

Mr. Meyer is a member of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Society of California Pioneers, and the Sierra Club. In addition to serving on the American-Asian Cultural Exchange Advisory Board, he is past President and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Korean-American Chamber of Commerce and serves as trustee of the Asian Art Museum Foundation.