Christine Scheuneman is an independent corporate director and strategic advisor to national and international private and Fortune 100 companies. She is an award-winning leader, achieving results with organizations by providing innovative and strategic advice, and is a published author on corporate governance and finance issues.

Scheuneman is a member of the Board of Directors of Farmers and Merchants Bank of Long Beach, where she sits on the Risk and Compliance and Nomination and Corporate Governance Committees. She recently retired as a senior partner of the international law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where she represented many of the nation’s leading corporations, financial institutions, and real estate companies, as well as many preeminent international companies. She served as a key member of the firm’s Global Crisis Management Team and led successful high-impact teams in investment, regulatory, finance, real estate, and consumer matters. She has received many professional honors, including being honored by the Financial Times in its North American Most Innovative Lawyers program, awarded to those demonstrating innovation through originality, leadership, and impact.

Scheuneman is a long-standing member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Real Estate at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California Irvine. Her leadership roles in nonprofit organizations include service as chair of the Board of Trustees of Cottey College, the only independent women’s college owned and supported by women, and its Institute for Women’s Leadership, Social Responsibility, and Global Awareness; and vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Orange County, where she chairs the Audit Committee. She also serves on the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Orange County United Way.

Scheuneman received her Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law, her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kansas, and her Associate of Arts from Cottey College.