Doug Otto is Actively Involved in the Long Beach Community (and has been since an early age!) President of the Student Body of Long Beach Millikan High School Co-foundation of SWAPSI student association at Stanford University President of the Long Beach Bar Association Member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Board of Trustees Member of the Board of Directors of the Long Beach Legal Aid Foundation Chair of Legal Aid Foundation’s fundraising campaigns in 1997, 1998, and 1999 Co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Victim’s Rights Member of the State Bar’s Access to Justice Commission Founder and past president of both the Long Beach Foundation for Architectural and Cultural Heritage and Long Beach Heritage Long Beach Heritage Preservationist of the Year in 1990 Chair of the City of Long Beach’s Blue Ribbon Citizens Transportation Task Force in 1989 Two-term member and Chair of the Long Beach Planning Commission Chair of the Long Beach City Manager’s Downtown Business and Development Advisory Committee from 1998-2004 Member of the City of Long Beach Ethics Task Force Two terms as president of the Arts Council of Long Beach Appointed by Mayor Beverly O’Neill to chair the Long Beach Strategic Plan 2010, a comprehensive City-citizen planning effort which was adopted by the City in 2000 and become the City’s guiding plan for 10 years David Landry Memorial Award for outstanding community service from the City of Long Beach in 2000 Selected to be a member of the founding Board of Directors of the Aquarium of the Pacific in 1998 where he still serves Member of the Los Angeles Economic Development Committee (LAEDC) Chaired a 2-year effort to develop a 20-year comprehensive master plan for the Aquarium Member of the St. Mary Medical Center Board of Trustees Member of the St. Mary Medical Center Biomedical Ethics Task Force Elected to two terms of the Long Beach City College Board of Trustees Elected to the Statewide California Community College Trustees Board of Directors Co-chaired the California Community College Task Force on the Future Received the Humanitarian Award from the California Conference on Equality and Justice in 2010 Selected as a Long Beach City College Distinguished Alumnus 2009 Inducted into the Long Beach City College Hall of Fame 2009 Received the Small Practice Lawyer of the Year Award from the California State Bar Association in 2011