Craig A. Ewing was elected to the Desert Water Agency board in 2007, and is serving his first term. He is the chairman of the Human Resources Committee, and a member of the Legislative Committee.

A second-generation southern Californian from San Bernardino, Craig received his BA in Economics and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studied City and Regional Planning at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and earned a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

Craig worked in manufacturing for seven years, specializing in production scheduling and inventory control. He has been a city planner since 1984, working in local government in both southern and northern California. He joined the City of Palm Springs as Director of Planning Services in 2005. He has been a presenter and speaker at the League of California Cities’ Planners Institute and at the annual conference of the California Chapter of the American Planning Association. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) of the American Planning Association.

Craig resides in Palm Springs.