Arlene Andrew has spent much of her career in city planning and historic preservation. She was a Senior Planner for the City of La Verne and a Historic Preservation Planner for the City of Rancho Cucamonga. Arlene has been on the Claremont Planning Commission, and the Greater Pomona Housing Development Corporation, and is currently a board member of the Claremont Committee on Aging. She has been a board member of many additional organizations: League of Women Voters, California Preservation Foundation, House of Ruth, Claremont Heritage, and Claremont Wildlands Conservancy, among them.