Lorin Fife retired from the practice of law in 1998 to focus more on family, art and community-oriented activities.  Mr. Fife currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.  He also served for many years as Vice President and Treasurer and Chair of the Foundation’s Grants and Finance Committees.  Mr. Fife also has served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, and has co-chaired the Israel and Overseas Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles.  In addition, he served for several years as the Los Angeles Chairman of the Federation’s Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership and on the national committee overseeing allocations of Israel Emergency Campaign funds raised by the United Jewish Communities.  Mr. Fife also served his congregation, Adat Ari El, as President and as Chairman of the Board, and as Chairman of the Board of its Day School, and has served on the boards of several other major Jewish institutions at the local and international level.  He is a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. 

Prior to his retirement, Mr. Fife served as a senior executive at SunAmerica Inc., a major financial services holding company, and practiced prior to that at O’Melveny & Myers, an international law firm headquartered in Los Angeles. In the broader community, Mr. Fife has served as an advisor to two California Insurance Commissioners and on numerous boards and committees in the legal community and the life insurance industry.  An accomplished portrait and landscape artist, Mr. Fife has exhibited his oil, pastel and watercolor paintings in galleries in the Los Angeles area.  Mr. Fife graduated with merit from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and from the University of Southern California Law Center.  He also did post-graduate studies in business and economics at Tel Aviv University.  A native of the San Fernando Valley, Mr. Fife has been married to his wife Linda for over 30 years.  They reside in Valley Village and have two adult sons, a daughter-in-law and one grandson. 

He has served on the Committee of the Board of Governors since September 2008.