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Wes Bannister was elected to the Orange County Water District Board of Directors in 1991 representing Division 6. He was re-elected to four-year terms in 1996, 2001 and 2004. In December 2007, he was elected to a one-year term as 1st Vice President of the Board.
In addition to serving on the board of Orange County Water District, Bannister was appointed in 1993 as a Director of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) representing the Municipal Water District of Orange County. In 2004, Director Bannister was elected as Chair of the MWD Board of Directors, for which he served until October 31, 2006.Director Bannister served as the Mayor of the City of Huntington Beach in 1989 and on the city’s Council from 1986 to 1990. He was the Republican Nominee for California Insurance Commissioner in 1990 and nominated to the Electoral College by President Bush in that same year. He served on the West Orange County Board from 1986 to 1990 and as a Director on the Orange County Sanitation District Board of Directors, District 11, from 1988 to 1990.
In 1986, Director Bannister was appointed by the Governor to the California FAIR Plan Board of Governors and currently serves as a member of that Board.
Since 1993, Director Bannister has represented the Orange County Water District on the Board of Directors of ACWA-JPIA (Association of California Water Agencies Joint Powers Insurance Authority). While serving, the board elected him to the Governing Committee and then was elected to serve two years as the Vice President of ACWA-JPIA. Following his two-year term, the board elected him President in 2005 for a three-year term.
Active in local affairs, Director Bannister has served on the boards of the Boy’s Club, YMCA, as Charter President of the Huntington Beach Sunrise Rotary Club and as an advisor to the Huntington Beach Search and Rescue Post 536.
In 1974, Director Bannister founded Bannister and Associates Insurance Agency from which he retired in 2003.
Director Bannister and his wife, Betty, have lived in Huntington Beach since 1969. They were married at Fort Sill, OK in 1959. | 