Lynne Pierson Doti, the David and Sandra Stone Professor of Economics at Chapman University, has taught at Chapman since 1971. She is the author of Banking in an Unregulated Environment: California 1878 - 1905 and co-author with Larry Schweikart of California Bankers, Banking in the American West and American Entrepreneur. She has also written about 25 articles on banking, using history as a laboratory to test theories of branching, structure and regulation and served as the editor of Essays in Economic and Business History, an academic journal. The Economic and Business History Society elected her President twice.Involvement in community issues resulted in her serving as chair of the Orange City Budget Committee and as a finance commissioner for the city of Anaheim. In 2006 she helped organize Plaza Bank, Irvine and served on its board of directors. Earlier, she was a director of Eldorado Bank. She became interested in the role of entrepreneurs as director of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Ethics where she met a number of the successful business owners in Orange County, California. Her next book is Financing California Real Estate: Spanish Missions to Sub-Prime mortgages, forthcoming 2016.