Email: gndockstader@iid.com | Cell: 1-760-623-2611

Director Gina Young Dockstader serves as Chairwoman of the IID Board of Directors, one of few women in the District’s history to hold this position. She represents Division 3, which includes Brawley, Calipatria and Niland and the southeastern area of the Salton Sea. She was elected to the IID Board in the November 2022 runoff election.

She also serves as the District’s alternate on the Colorado River Board of California, is President of the Salton Sea Authority, on the advisory committee for the Family Farm Alliance, Vice Chair of the California Farm Water Coalition, and as a director for Region 9 of the Association of California Water Agencies.

Director Dockstader is an agribusiness woman. Prior to her service on the IID Board, she managed her father’s farming office, started a trucking company, owns an organic date farm and is a partner in a farming entity and an organic packing house outside of Brawley.

A fourth-generation Imperial Valley resident, she attended local schools, graduating from Calipatria High School, furthering her education from Northern Arizona University where she majored in Public Relations and minored in Business Management and Spanish.

Director Dockstader also  serves on the Career Technical Educational advisory board for Calipatria High School and is a member of her local PEO sisterhood, a philanthropic educational organization for furthering the career of women.

She resides in Calipatria. Her current term as IID director runs through December 2026.

Gina Young Dockstader - Division 3 [PDF]