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Businesswoman Peggy Goldwater-Clay is Orange County’s new chief of protocol.

Working with the Orange County Board of Supervisors, the Office of Protocol serves as liaison with the county and consulates of foreign governments, the U.S. State Department and other agencies.

County supervisors appointed Goldwater-Clay to the post to succeed Gayle Anderson, who accepted an out-of-state position.

Goldwater-Clay has founded two businesses: Goldwater’s Foods of Arizona, and Peggy Jane’s Special Products Inc., which she sold in 1990 to Knott’s Berry Farm.

She is president of the Brain Imaging Center Steering Committee, a member of UC Irvine’s Foundation board and vice president of the board of directors for the Discovery Science Center of Orange County.