Sue Horgan, Ojai City Council Member and two term Mayor, announces that she intends to run for the Ventura County Treasurer and Tax Collector position.

Horgan, 54, has served on the Ojai City Council as well as its Finance and Audit Committee for 10 years. She previously served on the City’s Redevelopment and Planning Commissions.
She exceeds the new qualifications for the Treasurer’s position that were adopted by the Board of Supervisors today having earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Finance from the University of Colorado. She has earned twice the minimum number of accounting and finance units required under the new ordinance.
Horgan would bring a balance of private business and government experience to the position. She enjoyed a successful 15 year career in banking, is a graduate of the prestigious Union Bank Management Training Program and served as the manager of Union Bank’s Beverly Hills credit department. She was later named as a National Accounts Manager in downtown Los Angeles and operated for several years as a middle market commercial lender. She was a founding officer of First Professional Bank in Santa Monica and held a number of positions including that of Regional Vice President in charge of the Beverly Hills and Cedars Sinai offices.
With the birth of her daughters, Mrs. Horgan took a leave from banking and moved to Ojai to begin her community and government work. She has served on many Boards and Commissions focusing on finance related positions such as Treasurer of the Ojai Center for the Arts and the Four Winds School. She was a member of the Ojai Hospital’s Finance Committee when it was an independent hospital.
Horgan advocated for the establishment of the City of Ojai’s Audit and Finance Committee and has been an active member since its inception in 2000. In that capacity, she developed the City’s reserve policy and strengthened the investment policy. Countywide, Horgan has served on the Boards of the Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County (EDC-VC ) the Ventura County Library Commission, the Ojai Basin Groundwater Management Agency (OBGMA) and the Ventura Council of Governments (VCOG.)
In addition to currently serving on the Ojai City Council, Mrs. Horgan also serves on the Boards of the Ventura Regional Sanitation District (VRSD), the Ojai Community Hospital Foundation and Villanova Preparatory School.
She is married to Gary Horgan and they have two daughters, Michelle (age 19), a sophomore at Loyola Marymount University and Shannon (age 15), a sophomore at Villanova Preparatory School.