Legal Team

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 Donna Wells has been an attorney with the Los Angeles County Chicano Employees Association (LACCEA) since 2010. The legal services she provides include representation in disciplinary actions and discrimination matters to hearings before the Civil Service Commission. 

Prior to joining LACCEA, Wells was in private practice, handling labor, employment and civil rights law litigation, as well as representing and counseling municipalities and public employees on labor issues.  

Previously, she was also  General Counsel at Film L.A., Inc., and  Director of Government Relations for the Motion Picture Association of America.

Wells is a graduate of UCLA School of Law and serves on the UCLA Law School Alumni Board. She is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association, and the Labor & Employment Law sections of the California and L.A. County bar associations.  She also serves on the County Bar President’s Advisory Committee for the Status of Women in the Legal Profession.

Attorney Dion DiNome came to LACCEA in 2017 after a decade with the County of Los Angeles Probation Department.  As a son to a parent in the County workforce, the husband to a wife in the County workforce, and a previous employee himself, Mr. DiNome has a strong understanding of the County, including both policy and politics.  Mr. DiNome deals extensively with workplace investigations, discipline, IPMs, and more.  Mr. DiNome carries a strong interest in ensuring our members are treated fairly and with the respect they deserve.

Mr. Robert Meneses has 34 years of operational and administrative experience in the County of Los Angeles. He served as Student Professional Worker and rose through the ranks to become Administrative Deputy where he oversaw a $100 million dollar budget with 345 employees and was responsible for budget, payroll, personnel, management services, facility services and assisted overseeing information technology. He has worked in the Community and Senior Services Department, the Treasurer-Tax Collector, the Chief Executive Office, and the Alternate Public Defender’s Office.

After graduating from Loyola High School, he was accepted at Loyola Marymount University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984. He then received a Master of Business Administration degree in finance and marketing from California State University at Los Angeles in 1988. While working at the Alternate Public Defender’s Office, he pursued his law degree at night at Whittier College of Law where he graduated in 1998. In 1999, he passed the California State Bar examination and was sworn in by Chief Judge Terry Hatter at the Central District Federal Court. He has been a licensed attorney for over 20 years.