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Board of Directors

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Board of Directors

The Institute’s Board of Directors meets quarterly.

For information about serving on the ILG Board of Directors, see our board membership criteria in the pod at the right.

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Brett Channing
Chair

Assistant City Manager
City of Corona

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Teresa Acosta
Immediate Past Chair

Councilmember
City of Carlsbad

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Michele Beal Bagneris
Board Member

City Attorney and City Prosecutor
City of Pasadena

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Jaron Brandon
Board Member

Supervisor
Tuolumne, District 5

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Carolyn Coleman
Board Member

Executive Director
League of California Cities

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Rhonda Duggan
Board Member

Supervisor
Mono County, District 2

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Ruben Duran
Board Member

Partner
Best Best & Krieger LLP

Ruben Duran is the managing partner of Best Best & Krieger LLP’s Ontario office, where he exclusively represents public agencies in the firm’s Municipal Law and Government Policy & Public Integrity practice groups. Ruben brings a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the practice of public law. With an emphasis on open government, transparency and complex conflicts of interest issues, as well as elections law, land use and planning issues, he also provides special counsel to many of the firm’s clients.

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James Keene
Marketing Committee Chair

Former City Manager
City of Palo Alto

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Graham Knaus
Board Member

Executive Director
California State Association of Counties

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Justin Lovell
Board Member

Municipal Management Association of Northern California Liaison 

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Pat Martel
Board Member

Former City Manager
City Manager’s Department Liaison

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Neil McCormick
Board Member

Chief Executive Officer
California Special Districts Association

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Judy Mitchell
Board Member

Former Mayor
Former Councilmember

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Mona Miyasato
Board Member

County Executive Officer
County of Santa Barbara

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Richard Montgomery
Board Member

Mayor
City of Manhattan Beach

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Lorenzo Rios
Board Member

CEO
Clovis Veterans Memorial District

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Nat Rojanasathira
Advancement Committee Chair

Assistant City Manager
City of Monterey

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Lydia Romero
Vice Chair and Secretary/Treasurer

City Manager
City of Lemon Grove

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Jonathan Royas
Board Member

Deputy City Manager
Municipal Management Association of Southern California Liaison

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Hilary Straus
Board Member

General Manager
Citrus Heights Water District

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Jerry Patterson
Board Member Emeritus

Member, Board of Trustees
Coast Community College District

Former Member, US House of Representatives
Former Mayor, Santa Ana

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