Civic leader Jane W. Carney was appointed to the AQMD Governing Board in
March 2000 by the Senates Rules Committee.Carney, who has over 29 years of
experience in corporate and business law, is a partner of the Riverside law
firm of Roth, Carney & Knudsen, LLP. She is a
graduate of the School of Law at University of California, Davis, where she was
elected to Order of the Coif.
Carney has lived in Riverside since 1977, where she has been active in a wide
variety of community activities. She currently serves on the board of The
James Irvine Foundation. She is a past President of the Citizens
University Committee and of the Monday Morning Group of
Western Riverside County. Carney served as a trustee of Riverside Community
College from August 1993 to December 1995. She also chaired Mayor Ron Loveridge’s
Action Task Force for Good Jobs and co-chaired the fundraising campaign for
United Way of the Inland Valleys from 1993 to 1994. She was actively involved in
the successful effort to locate a federal district court in the Riverside-San
Bernardino area. Carney is a past President of the Riverside Downtown
Association and of the Riverside County Bar Association. She has been a member
of the Sierra Club for more than 20 years.
Carney has received numerous awards, including Citizen of the Year from the
Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce, Woman of Achievement Award from the Black
Voice News and Woman of the Year Award from the California Senate, Senator
Robert Presley.
She is married to Francis M. Carney, a founding faculty member of the
University of California, Riverside, and is the mother of three adult children.
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