Donna Lucas Email and Phone Number

Over the course of her 30-year career, Donna Lucas has earned a reputation as a smart, strategic and successful communications consultant and businesswoman. Since opening Lucas Public Affairs in 2006, Donna has grown the firm into a team of accomplished public affairs professionals who collaborate with clients to explain the complexities around many of the major public policy challenges facing the state. Donna provides strategic counsel to each of the firm’s clients, which range from financial institutions to nonprofit organizations and government entities.Donna has held senior executive positions in both the public and private sectors. She served as deputy chief of staff for strategic planning and initiatives for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and chief of staff to First Lady Maria Shriver. Donna served as deputy press secretary for Gov. George Deukmejian, deputy treasurer for state Treasurer Tom Hayes and California press secretary for the 1988 presidential campaign of then-Vice President George H.W. Bush. Donna was the global and public affairs practice leader for Porter Novelli, an international PR firm, after it acquired Nelson Communications Group, where she served as president and CEO for several years.Donna serves on the Executive Committee on the California Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. She is Chair-Emeritus of the Public Policy Institute of California and serves on the boards of the Crocker Art Museum, John Burton Advocates for Youth, College Futures Foundation, All About Sacramento, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement. Donna is a founding member of She Shares, a conversation series featuring trailblazing women leaders who have created a lasting impact for women in California. She is routinely named one of Sacramento’s 100 most powerful people and is often listed as one of the state Capitol’s most influential people.Donna lives in Sacramento with her husband Greg, California's State Librarian.