Lee K. Fink 

BIOGRAPHY

Council Member Lee Fink, elected in November 2024, is a Tustin native, attorney, and longtime community volunteer. His priorities on the City Council focus on:

• Developing the Local Economy for the Future, including providing abundant housing and business development in Tustin
• Keeping the community safe and healthy, including ensuring public safety, addressing homelessness, and 
• Building community, including supporting park and library initiatives, active transportation and bicycle options, and building community health and wellness resiliency.
• Ensuring a responsive city government, to address resident concerns, and to assist businesses and residents with navigating city hall so that they can more quickly obtain permits, licenses, and assistance that they need from the City.

Council Member Fink represents the City of Tustin on the Orange County Library Advisory Board, where he serves as the Vice Chair, and Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency.  He is also an appointed member of the Orange County Waste Management Commission.

GROWING UP IN TUSTIN 

Council Member Fink grew up Tustin, attending Loma Vista Elementary School, Hewes Middle School, and Foothill High School.  At Foothill, he was on the ASB Cabinet and a the Drum Major of the marching band, where he stepped off the Tustin Tiller Days Parade in 1993.  He was a student member of the Foothill Site Council and helped lobby the Tustin School Board to create a full time student trustee position.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE

Professionally, Council Member Fink is an attorney at a boutique litigation firm where he practices business litigation, trust litigation, and political and public transparency law.  He served as the Co-Chair of the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Pro Bono Committee from 2019-2023, and the Chair of the OCBA Business Litigation Section in 2024.  Council Member Fink has been recognized by his peers in the Best Lawyers in America ® since 2023 and SuperLawyers® since 2024.

Council Member Fink has served in various roles in the federal and local government.  He was the Deputy General Counsel at the Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) from 2017-2018, the Principal Deputy General Counsel at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and served in other roles in the Office of the General Counsel from 2013-2017, he was the Director of Outreach and Intergovernmental Affairs at NASA from 2009-2012, an Associate at the White House Office of Presidential Personnel in 2009, and a Judicial Law Clerk for Hon. David O. Carter in the United States District Court in Santa Ana from 2001-2002.

Council Member Fink started his career as a lawyer for one of the largest and oldest law firms in California.

In addition to practicing law, Council Member Fink is an Adjunct Professor at Western State University College of Law in Tustin, where he teaches Administrative Law.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Council Member Fink has been an active volunteer in the community.  Prior to his election, he served on the Board of Directors of the Tustin Community Foundation (TCF) and the Tustin Chamber of Commerce, where he was Legal Counsel.  He continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Family Promise Orange County, an interfaith organization dedicated to ending family homelessness in Orange County.  

Council Member Fink is also a 2017 graduate of the Tustin Citizens Police Academy, a past co-Chair of the Pro Bono Committee of the Orange County Bar where he helps coordinate free and reduced-priced legal services, and a supporter of the Tustin Historical Society, having opened his home to the public for the 2019 Old Town Home Tour.

PERSONAL LIFE

Council Member Fink and his wife, Courtney, live in Old Town Tustin with their daughter, two cats, and a beagle.  They are avid fans of the defending back-to-back World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers.  Council Member Fink is a frequent bicyclist and can often be seen commuting to work or cycling through town.

EDUCATION

Council Member Fink is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and earned his law degree from NYU School of Law.