2020-2021 Murrieta Rotary officers, directors to take office

MURRIETA – Lou Ellen Ficke will take office July 1 as president of the Rotary Club of Murrieta for the 2020-2021 Rotary year, succeeding former president Jacqui Dobens. A longtime resident of the Temecula Valley, Ficke has been active in community banking since 1973. She recently opened her seventh new community bank, serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Lexicon Bank in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before Lexicon, she opened and served 10 years with Commerce Bank of Temecula Valley, which is now Nano Banc. Active in community service, Ficke has served with the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce board of directors, Loma Linda Big Hearts for Little Hearts, Temecula Valley Guild, Slow Food of Temecula Valley and Women’s Peer Connection Group, while holding sever