California’s community college districts serve large and varied populations while supporting broad administrative, academic, and public-facing technology environments. The cybersecurity leaders in this feature are working across district systems where reliability, access, governance, and operational resilience all matter at once. Their backgrounds span district security leadership, infrastructure, consulting, public sector security, and enterprise technology management, reflecting the practical and organizational demands of protecting community college systems at scale.
Patrick Luce — Chief Information Security Officer, Los Angeles Community College District
Patrick Luce serves as chief information security officer at the Los Angeles Community College District, a role he has held since June 2019. His background combines district-level security leadership with a long tenure in technology consulting and K-12 administration. Before joining the district, he spent more than eleven years as director of consultative services at VectorUSA, and earlier held leadership roles at Los Angeles Unified School District, including deputy chief information officer and director of information technology, security.
That career path points to long-standing experience across information security, IT management, infrastructure, disaster recovery, risk management, and enterprise technology operations. The combination of major district leadership and consulting work suggests a profile shaped by both hands-on operational demands and broader strategic planning across large education environments.
Steven Domingo — Director, Information Security, Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District
Steven Domingo is director of information security at Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, where he stepped into the role in March 2024. His background includes a mix of higher education, healthcare, managed services, and credit union technology roles. Before joining the district, he served briefly at San Diego Community College District as manager of campus PC services, and earlier held roles including senior manager of service delivery partner at Takeda, IT director at Infracore, and network manager at Wheelhouse Credit Union.
His experience across infrastructure, service delivery, networking, and IT leadership gives him a broad operational foundation for district security work. Earlier positions at Ent Credit Union, Simpleworks, Amnet, TechWise, and Pearl Hawaii Federal Credit Union add further depth in systems, networks, and enterprise support, showing a career built across environments where continuity and technology management are central.
Danny Gorman — Director of Information Security, South Orange County Community College District
Danny Gorman became director of information security at South Orange County Community College District in October 2024 after spending more than two decades at Coast Community College District. At Coast, his work included district information systems security, security analyst responsibilities, and infrastructure engineering, giving him a long institutional background in maintaining and securing district systems and networks.
His profile emphasizes planning and securing networks and services, with experience across firewalls, switching, VMware, Windows administration, and general network and infrastructure operations. That technical grounding is reinforced by an earlier role as a security analyst at Integralis, where he worked with international clients on network health, intrusion concerns, and infrastructure escalation. The progression shows a security leader with deep roots in district operations and long-running experience in the technical foundations of enterprise security.
Lee Ann Herron — Director of Information Technology Security, Kern Community College District
Lee Ann Herron is director of information technology security at Kern Community College District, where she has served since February 2022. Before joining the district, she spent eight years as information security officer for Kern County, adding substantial public sector security experience before moving into the community college environment.
Earlier roles at Teledyne Technologies, Telos Corporation, and ARINC Technologies reflect a background tied to highly structured and security-intensive environments. Her work included security testing, implementation, auditing, strategic and tactical team leadership, enterprise information assurance, ITIL-aligned service improvement, and certification and accreditation work tied to defense and government systems. That combination of county leadership and defense-oriented security experience gives her background notable depth in operational discipline, compliance, and secure systems management.
Hsiawen Hull — Executive Director of Infrastructure and Information Security, College of the Canyons
Hsiawen Hull serves as executive director of infrastructure and information security at College of the Canyons. Based on the material provided, this stands out as a strong college-specific leadership role, with the college’s own directory identifying Hull in that position and a 2025 college announcement also describing Hull as the new center’s chief information security officer.
That framing places Hull at the intersection of infrastructure leadership and information security inside a college environment, a combination that is especially relevant in community college settings where operational reliability and security often need to be managed together. Even from the limited source material here, the role clearly signals responsibility that reaches across core technology systems as well as the institution’s security posture.
Community College Security Leadership in Practice
What stands out across this group is how closely cybersecurity leadership in community college districts is tied to infrastructure, service delivery, and institutional operations. These are not abstract security roles removed from the day-to-day needs of campuses. They sit inside districts and colleges where leaders must support continuity, usability, and governance while protecting complex systems that serve students, faculty, and administrators across large public education networks.
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