Lynne Pierson Doti, the David and Sandra Stone Professor of Economics at Chapman University, is the author of Banking in an Unregulated Environment: California 1878 - 1905 and co-author of California Bankers and Banking in the American West. She has also written about 25 articles on banking, using history as a laboratory to test theories of branching, structure and regulation. Currently she is writing a book called Financing California and is the editor of Essays in Economic and Business History.
She has served on a number of corporate, civic, and charitable boards including the board of directors of Eldorado Bank, and the Anaheim and Orange Budget Commissions.