Maria Hummer-Tuttle, a lawyer, was a partner and Chair of the Management Committee and Co-Managing Partner of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips in Los Angeles. She was affiliated with the law firm for over 25 years. She currently serves on the boards of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Caltech, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Suu Foundation and the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies. Ms. Hummer-Tuttle is President of The Hummer Tuttle Foundation, serves on the Advisory Board of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, the Program Advisory Committee of The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Getty Conservation Institute Council and the Caltech Space Innovation Council. Ms. Hummer-Tuttle has served on a number of charitable and civic boards including The Music Center of Los Angeles County, the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Children's Institute Inc., Mount St. Mary's College and Scripps College, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the Legal Aid Foundation and the Women’s Leadership Board of John F. Kennedy School of Government – Harvard Unversity. Maria Hummer-Tuttle received her B.A. from Scripps College and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law.