Vicki Reynolds ’58

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Vicki Reynolds has long been involved in the community she’s called home from her very first office as senior class secretary at Beverly Hills High School. After graduating from UCLA in 1957 with a B.A. in political science, she received a degree from the Sorbonne at the University of Paris.

She served two four-year terms on the Beverly Hills Board of Education and was twice president of the board. She was first elected to the Beverly Hills City Council in 1988 and served an unprecedented three terms as the city’s mayor.

One of Reynolds’ achievements is the founding of the Westside Summit, a forum for elected officials from Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, and Santa Monica, to address problems of traffic, environmental quality, water resources, homelessness and other issues that lend themselves to regional solutions.

She co-founded the Women’s Summit Committee for Affirmative Action and has worked with the Lieutenant Governor’s Delinquent Child Support Task Force and the Western Regional Council on Criminal Justice.

Her work on behalf of UCLA includes service on the UCLA Foundation Board of Counselors, College of Letters and Science Advisory Board, the Dean’s Council for Honors and Undergraduates, and co-sponsorship of a lecture series on infant development at the Neuropsychiatric Institute. In 1999, Gov. Gray Davis appointed Vicki Reynolds to the California State Board of Education.