Dr. Marshall (Mark) Drummond officially began working as Chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) July 23, 2007.  The largest community college district in the nation, the LACCD includes nine colleges with an annual budget of nearly one billion dollars serving approximately 180,000 full time students.  The LACCD Board of Trustees announced Dr. Drummond’s appointment at its May 30, 2007 meeting.

In his previous position as Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, Dr. Drummond tirelessly advocated for, and passionately articulated the important societal mission of the state's 72 college districts to local, state, and national elected leaders and officials. Strengthening the System Office's federal and state governmental relations operation, Chancellor Drummond established a lobbyist presence in Washington, DC.

Chancellor Drummond’s other accomplishments as state Chancellor include addressing the critical nursing shortage; spearheading the first-ever Strategic Plan for the California community college system, adopted by the Board of Governors in January, 2006; and restoring financial stability to Compton Community College.

In addition to his busy traveling and speaking schedule, Chancellor Drummond maintained contact with, and fostered relationships, with local community college administrators, faculty, staff and students, visiting nearly all of California’s 109 campuses.

Prior to his appointment as State Chancellor, Dr. Drummond served as Chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District from 1999 to 2004. His major accomplishments there included: increasing District enrollments over 30% in three years, increasing the State-supported budget nearly 40% in three years, negotiating performance measures into all six collective bargaining agreements, passing two facilities bonds to provide $2.1 billion dollars for modernization, repair and new facilities, revamping the management structure of the District to take advantage of size and decentralization, moving rapidly on a project to replace all enterprise systems and retrain staff in the use of those systems, increasing grants and contract revenue from $20 million to nearly $70 million annually, building foundations at every college and the District, increasing assets and annual giving.

Prior to his tenure at Los Angeles CCD, Drummond served as President of Eastern Washington University for nearly 10 years. There he successfully led the institution's fundraising efforts, which included increasing the university's endowment, increasing the level of grants and contracts, raising private and public funds to restore a historical performing arts center and securing funds to build a new 160,000 square foot library. He also restructured the college to better utilize extensive and other college/university partnerships.  Before assuming the Presidency at Eastern Washington University, Dr. Drummond served as Executive Vice President; Vice President of Administrative Services and Finances; and Vice President and Chief Information Officer.

In the private sector, Chancellor Drummond utilized his technological expertise as a founding member and General Manager of Technology Specialists, Inc. and General Manager for west coast operations at Systems and Computer Technology Corporation, both based in Pennsylvania. He also served as President of Management Services Associates in Hayward, California.

From 1967 to 1981, Dr. Drummond taught business and data processing courses at Chabot College in Hayward. Community service has always been an important and integral part of Dr. Drummond's life and professional career. He served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Subcommittee on Emerging Technologies, which advises the United States Department of Energy. He also chaired the Hanford Future Uses Commission and Hanford Tank Waste Commission.

Chancellor Drummond holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Economics from San Jose State University, a Master of Business Administration from San Jose State University, and a Doctorate of Education from the University of San Francisco.