meet the 2021
Board of Directors
BOARD OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
president
Peter Scheer
Attorney and journalist, FAC Exec. Director, 2004-2016, San Rafael, CA
VICE PRESIDENT
Dick Rogers
Reader Representative, San Francisco Chronicle (retired), San Leandro, CA
Treasurer
Hal Fuson
Attorney, Executive Vice President, The Copley Press, Inc. (retired), San Diego, CA
SECRETARY
Scott Lindlaw
Principal, Sard Verbinnen & Co., SF, CA
past president
Duffy Carolan
Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP, San Francisco, CA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE
Carol Melamed
Vice-President Government Affairs, Washington Post (retired), Palo Alto, CA
Executive Committee At Large
Juliet Williams
News Editor, Associated Press, SF, CA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE
Katherine Rowlands
Publisher, Bay City News Service, Oakland, CA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE
Ricardo Sandoval-Palos
Public Editor, PBS, Washington, DC
Board Members
Director
Tim Alger
Attorney, Alger Law APC, Newport Beach, CA
Director
Lara Bergthold
Principal Partner, RALLY, an issue-driven communications firm
Director
Marcos Breton
Columnist, Sacramento Bee
Director
Cheryl Brown
Co-Founder, California Black Media
Director
Bruce B. Brugmann
Editor and Publisher, San Francisco Bay Guardian (retired)
Director
Thomas Burke
Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine, SF, CA
Director
Ed Chapuis
Vice President & General Manager, KSBY San Luis Obispo, CA
Director
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
DIRECTOR
Alica Del Valle
Associate General Counsel, Airbnb
Director
Richard Gingras
Director of News Products, Google, Mt. View, CA
director
Jean-Paul Jassy
Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP, LA, CA
DIRECTOR
Jay Harris
Media Consultant, former Publisher Mother Jones and The American Prospect, SF, CA
Director
Linda Jue
Editor-at-Large, 100Reporters
Director
Quentin Kopp
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge (retired), SF, CA
Director
Jim Newton
Lecturer, UCLA, Luskin School of Public Affairs; journalist, and author of “Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown,” published May 2020.
Director
Karl Olson
Attorney, Cannata, O’Toole, Fickes & Olson, SF, CA
director
Mel Opotowsky
Newspaper Consultant and former managing editor, Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA
Director
Rowland Rebele
Newspaper Publisher (retired) and Newspaper Consultant , Santa Cruz, CA
Director
Edward Wasserman
Professor and Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA