In honor of community leader Cheri Fleming, a special dedication ceremony was held to rename Auto Center Drive to Cheri Fleming Auto Center Drive on Tuesday, February 15th.

The Santa Clarita City Council voted to rename the street at a December council meeting after receiving a request from the Santa Clarita Automobile Dealers Association in October.

Fleming was well known throughout the Santa Clarita Valley for her work with numerous nonprofits and her love of animals.

The SCV resident held leadership positions with Soroptimist International of America, American Cancer Society Unit Council, Child and Family Center Foundation, The Arthritis Foundation and Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Foundation, among many other nonprofit organizations.

Fleming traveled the world as 2013-2014 Soroptimist International of the Americas President, representing 30,000 members in countries across North America, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. SI of the Americans is one of five federations within Soroptimist International.

In 2004 she was named SCV Woman of the Year, alongside husband Don, named SCV Man of the Year, and received the College of the Canyons Foundation’s Silver Spur award in 2019.

As one of the few female principals in the automobile industry Fleming also served as a director of the Greater Los Angeles New Car Dealers Association. The American International Automobile Dealers Association and Newsweek magazine named her the “Dealer of the Year” in 2006.

Fleming died at age 69 from a brain aneurism in November of 2020 at Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills.