Dr. Kindred I. Murillo is an accomplished executive leader with 28 years of combined public-sector and utility-industry leadership experience, 13 years in electric utility operations and 23 years in community college executive leadership, and five as a city council/mayor. She began her career at Southern California Edison, holding progressively senior roles in customer service, employee/labor relations, business office management, and governmental affairs across central and southern California, while also serving as the first elected Mayor of the newly incorporated Town of Yucca Valley, where she helped stand up the town’s government, budget, and emergency response following the 1992 Lander earthquake.
Dr. Murillo went on to a distinguished career in California community college leadership, serving as the Superintendent/President of Lake Tahoe Community College, Southwestern College, and interim at Santa Barbara City college, and earlier as Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services at Contra Costa Community college District, and Vice President of Administrative Services at Pasadena City College and Copper Mountain College. Across these roles, she led successful general obligation bond campaigns, major facilities and construction programs, accreditation reaffirmations, budget transparency reforms, and initiatives to diversity leadership pipelines and strengthen student equity outcomes. She served extensively on ACCJC accreditation evaluation teams, as government field representative for San Bernardino County, and as a frequent presenter and panelist at community college conferences.
Dr. Murillo holds a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership and a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Redlands. She now works as an independent executive coach and board-development consultant, and currently chairs a task group in Albuquerque, New Mexico, advocating on electric utility substation siting and transmission line infrastructure issues.