Dishman Named Conservancy Head

Linda Dishman has been selected as the new executive director of the Los Angeles Conservancy. Her duties as head of the largest nonprofit historic preservation organization in the West begin on Monday.

Previously an architectural historian with the National Park Service and a senior planner for the city of Pasadena, Dishman has been a preservation professional for more than a decade.

She is one of two California advisers to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a five-year board of trustee member and current vice-president of the California Preservation Foundation.