Glenn Woody | Board Director

Glenn was born in 1938 and raised in Lubbock, Texas, where he attended the public schools and Texas Tech University. At Texas Tech he was the president of his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter. He was enrolled in the Air Force ROTC and was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. upon his graduation in 1960.
He served on active duty with the US Air Force for three years as a Special Agent in the Office of Special Investigations.

After some time in the family business in Lubbock, he returned to Southern California in 1965 and spent several years at McDonnell Douglas before starting his career in the financial business in 1971. Glenn earned the designation as a Certified Financial Planner and then in 1981 he opened his own financial planning firm from which he retired in 2014. Along the way he was President of the International Association for Financial Planning, Orange County Chapter; President of the Institute of Certified Financial Planners, Orange County Society; and Founding President of the Orange County Chapter of the Financial Planning Association.

Glenn joined the Order of DeMolay in Lubbock, Texas, where he served as Master Councilor in 1956 and as the Texas State Master Councilor in 1958. He was an Active Member of the DeMolay International Supreme Council from 1985-2003, and was named Member of the Year in 1994.

Glenn was active in the Masonic order in his local Lodge in Huntington Beach and with the California Grand Lodge. He served on numerous Grand Lodge Boards and Committees. He was a member of the Grand Lodge Investment Committee from 1989 to 2007 and was its Chair from 1989 – 1992. He served on the Board of the California Masonic Homes from 2010 – 2018. Glenn served the California Masonic Grand Lodge as Grand Orator in 1979-1980 and as Grand Treasurer from 2006-2011. He received the Golden Veteran Award in 2010 after 50 years as an active Mason. In 2015 he was named California Mason of the year.

In his community Glenn served on the Board of Directors of the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles and of the Goodwill Industries of Orange County where he was President in 1984-1985. He has been a member of the Lincoln Club of Orange County since 2012 and served as the volunteer accountant of the California Policy Center from 2015 – 2024.