Lynette Brown-Sow

Chair of the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment

Job Title: 
Chair of the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment
Appointed By: 
Mayor Nutter
This member is an alternate?: 
No
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Lynette Brown-Sow was appointed to the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment by Michael Nutter in January, 2008. She became chair of the ZBA in January, 2010. Brown-Sow has served in her current cabinet-level position at Community College of Philadelphia since 1995. There she leads the staff handling marketing, advertising, public relations, publications, special events, and government and community relations. In January of 1991, Mayor Edward G. Rendell appointed Brown-Sow Deputy Mayor of Administration. In that position, she was responsible for managing the Mayor’s appointees to all boards, commissions, and non-civil service positions. In 1980, she founded L.M. Brown Management Group, a certified minority/female- owned consultant firm that provides professional services to corporations, non-profits, and governmental entities. As an entrepreneur, Brown-Sow helped to create Health Pass, one of the nation’s first health insurance organizations (HIO), in the mid-1980s. She currently serves on the boards of the Avenue of the Arts; Youth Advocate Programs Inc., a youth service organization; Cheyney University of Pennsylvania; and the Women’s Empowerment Initiative.  

Appointed by Mayor Nutter.