After college Dunn began working as a temporary secretary at
Wells Fargo & Co. She eventually became CEO at
Barclays Global Investors, the company that acquired the asset management division of Wells Fargo. In 1998 she joined the HP Board of Directors. Dunn was also non-executive Vice Chairman of Barclays Global Investors from 2002 to October 2006. Additionally, she was 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. HP hired companies which, while investigating the leaks, obtained the personal telephone records of HP board members and reporters who covered HP through a practice called
pretexting. It is illegal under California law to use deceit and trickery to obtain private records of individuals. HP announced on September 12, 2006, that
Mark Hurd (the company's CEO) would replace Dunn as Chairman in January but she would continue as a board member. Ten days later, however, Dunn resigned (effective immediately) both from her position as chairman
and from the board. In an official statement, Dunn noted "I accepted the responsibility to identify the sources of those leaks, but I did not propose the specific methods of the investigation... Unfortunately, the people HP relied upon to conduct this type of investigation let me and the company down. I continue to have the best interests of HP at heart and thus I have accepted the board's request to resign." On October 4, 2006, Dunn and four others were charged by California
attorney general Bill Lockyer with four
felony counts:
fraudulent use of wire, radio or television transmissions; taking, copying, and using computer data without authorization;
identity theft; and
conspiracy. Lockyer issued
arrest warrants for all five of those so charged. Dunn was scheduled to have been arraigned on November 17, 2006. On March 14, 2007, the judge in the case dropped all criminal charges against her in the "interests of justice". The dropping of the criminal charges by Judge Cunningham came after Dunn refused to take a plea of one misdemeanor in exchange for four felonies before the preliminary hearing. ==Personal life==