{"id":331412,"date":"2026-05-25T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331412\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:20:09","slug":"oc50-2026-mary-garrett-orange-county-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331412\/","title":{"rendered":"OC50 2026: MARY GARRETT &#8211; Orange County Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EY OC OFFICE MANAGING PARTNER <\/p>\n<p>ERNST &amp; YOUNG<\/p>\n<p>WHY: Has served as the OC office managing partner for accounting and consulting firm Ernst &amp; Young LLP (EY US) since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>IN THE NEWS: Responsible for leading nearly 700 employees in OC while continuing to drive growth and advancing the firm\u2019s culture. Ernst &amp; Young\u2019s local Irvine office is OC\u2019s second-largest accounting firm by employee count.<\/p>\n<p>NOTABLE: Family has a long history in OC, dating back to the late 1800s when her family began a farming business by planting grapes, then avocados and oranges. Both parents are OC natives. Garrett, who was born in Newport Beach and raised in Irvine where she graduated from Woodbridge High School, left for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville on a volleyball scholarship. When that four-year stint was over, she came back to Orange County because she missed her family and Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>IN HER WORDS: \u201cWe have an entrepreneurial spirit here in OC; it\u2019s built into our DNA. We\u2019re also home to some exceptional talent in sectors as diverse as life sciences, technology and aerospace and defense. When you combine those facts with our region\u2019s highly knowledgeable and passionate leaders, I know we have everything we need to create even more opportunities for our local businesses and the professionals who call OC home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149624 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SR_OC50_badge-1-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EY OC OFFICE MANAGING PARTNER ERNST &amp; YOUNG WHY: Has served as the OC office managing partner for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-331412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}