Mindell Lewis Penn is an American politician from Richmond, California. She served on the Richmond City Council from 1999 and 2005. She was age 60 in 2005, is a graduate of the UC Davis Financial School of Management, and is affiliated with the "powerful" Bay Area group Black Women Organized For Political Action. She was an executive for PG&E working in community relations and finance, and was elected twice as the chairwoman of the Sacramento Urban League board of directors. She served on the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park project committee.