Larry Spicer, Council Member -Elected 2005, Current Term of Office 2012

Council Member Larry Spicer was re-elected to City Council on November 4, 2008 and served as Mayor from December 2008 to December 2009. Prior to his election, he served on the city's Planning Commission from 2000-2005 and on the Architecture & Landscape Committee from 1999-2000. He currently serves on the Indian Wells Finance, Grants-in-Aid and Marketing Committees; the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy and Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport Commission; and Coachella Valley Association of Governments Homelessness Committee.

Active in community service throughout the Coachella Valley, Council Member Spicer recently completed a two-year term as chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Living Desert. He is a past president of the Palm Desert Chamber of Commerce, a former director of the Desert Chapter of the Building Industry Association, a member of the board of Family YMCA of the Desert, a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, and vice chairman of the Palm Springs Airport Commission.

Council Member Spicer is retired from the real estate industry. He has held several senior positions for land development and construction companies in Southern California. He is also a registered professional engineer in California and Florida and a former member of the Urban Land Institute's Recreational Development Council. A former U.S. Air Force captain and fighter pilot, he also received a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. He and wife Patty have lived in Indian Wells for 36 years. They have three children and five grandchildren.