Lynette M. Brown-Sow

Chair Lynette M. Brown-Sow is the Vice President of Marketing and Government Relations at the Community College of Philadelphia. In 1980, she founded L.M. Brown Management Group, a certified minority/female-owned consulting firm that provides professional services to corporations, non-profits, and governmental entities. As an entrepreneur, Ms. Brown-Sow helped to create Health Pass, one of the nation's first health insurance organizations, in the mid-1980s. In 2008, Mayor Michael Nutter appointed her to the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment, which she chaired from 2010-2013. In 1991, then-Mayor Edward Rendell appointed Ms. Brown-Sow to the position of Deputy Mayor of Administration to manage appointees to all boards, commissions, and non-civil service positions.