A position she held from February 2005 until September 22, 2006, when she resigned her position. On October 4,2006 Bill Lockyer the California Attorney General charged Dunn with four felonies for her role in the HP investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of company information. Some members of the press reported that Dunn had been scapegoated. On March 14, 2007, California Superior Court judge Ray Cunningham dropped criminal charges against her in the "interest of justice."Dunn grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada,where both of her parents were involved in the casino industry. Her father was the entertainment manager for the Dunes and Tropicana hotel-casinos, and her mother was a model and showgirl. When Dunn was only eleven, her father died. Her mother subsequently moved the family to California.Dunn entered the University of Oregon in 1970, but later had to drop out to support her mother by working as a housecleaner. She resumed college and graduated from UC Berkeley, where she graduated in 1975 with a BA in Journalism.After college, Dunn began working as a temporary secretary at Wells Fargo & Co., where she eventually became CEO. While at Wells Fargo, she met William Jahnke, a banker whom she later married. She also worked as a freelance journalist.Dunn later joined the HP Board of Directors. Dunn received the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco "Financial Woman of the Year" award in 2001. She eventually succeeded Carly Fiorina as chairman of the board. Dunn was non-executive Vice Chairman of Barclays Global Investors since 2002, resigning on 6 October 2006, the day after her criminal indictment (see below). Additionally, she is Director and Executive Committee member of Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco, on the board of the Conference Board's Global Corporate Governance Research Center, and an advisory board member of UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.