S. Leslie Jewett

Leslie Jewett ‘77, of Laguna Beach, Calif., has been a chief financial officer of California First National Bank since 2015. She also serves as a chief financial officer for California First National Bancorp, the parent company and successor to a company she joined in 1991. She was a founding director in 2001 of CalFirst Bank, a $500 million Internet bank whose primary business is commercial leasing and financing of capital assets and commercial loans. From 1981-90, Jewett held various management positions at Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. in New York, including senior vice president of corporate finance.

Jewett earned a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore, followed by an MBA from Stanford University in 1981. She previously served as a member of the Business School Trust at the Stanford Graduate School of Business before joining the Board of Managers in 2013.