Woman Leads Minority Business Group
The Orange County Minority Business Council installed its first female president Friday.
Nam Wheeler, a former Vietnamese refugee, was named to succeed Manuel Pena of the county’s Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as president of the 4-year-old council. The organization is made up of the local black, Chinese-American, Latino, Korean and Vietnamese chambers of commerce.
Wheeler is a board member of the county’s Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and is on the advisory board of Garden Grove Hospital.
Frank H.C. So, a representative of the Chinese-American chamber, succeeds Wheeler as the new vice president of the Santa Ana-based council.
Raul Medrano of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was selected as the council’s secretary, succeeding Melody Chen of the Chinese-American chamber.
Aaron L. Lovejoy, president of the black chamber, was reelected treasurer.
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