Area Board Locations

Council Members

The Governor appoints the Council's 29 members. Some are appointed because they are individual/family consumers, some by virtue of their position in state government, and some as representatives of other organizations involved in this system. The Assembly and Senate each recommend one consumer for appointment by the Governor. Information on applying to serve as a Governor's appointee is available through the Governor's Office. Click here for important additional information about State Council and Area Board appointments.

Under federal law, consumer representatives must comprise at least 60 percent of the Council membership. Federal law also specifies that consumer representation be a combination of individual and family consumer representatives. Since January 1, 2003, California law requires that 13 of the 19 consumer members be from the Area Boards on Developmental Disabilities (one from each "catchment area" served by the 13 Area Boards). The following are current members who have been appointed to three-year terms as individual or family consumer representatives:

• 2008 Council Chair: Marcia Good
  Family Consumer Representative from Los Angeles County (Area Board 10)
• 2008 Council Vice-Chair: Theodore Martens
  Family Consumer Representative from San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties (Area Board 9)
• 2008 Council Chair Emeritus: Sascha Bittner
  Individual Consumer Representative from Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties (Area Board 5)
• Ray Ceragioli
  Family Consumer Representative (representing relatives/guardians of current or former Developmental Center residents)
• Jorge A. Aguilar
  Family Consumer Representative (nominated by the Assembly Speaker)
• David Mulvaney
  Family Consumer Representative (representing relatives of community residents)
• Emily Matlack
  Individual Consumer Representative
• Willie West
  Individual Consumer Representative
• Lisa Cooley
  Individual Consumer Representative (Nominated by the Senate)
• Catherine P. O’Brien-Peterson
  Family Consumer Representative from Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Lake Counties (Area Board 1)
• Leroy G. Shipp
  Family Consumer Representative from Butte, Shasta, Glenn, Siskiyou, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Modoc and Trinity Counties (Area Board 2)
• Randi Knott
  Family Consumer Representative from Alpine, Sacramento, Colusa, El Dorado, Sutter, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Yuba and Sierra Counties (Area Board 3)
• Laura Ramos
  Individual Consumer Representative from Napa, Solano and Sonoma Counties (Area Board 4)
• Brad Putz
  Individual Consumer Representative from Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties (Area Board 6)
• Julie Wilsted
  Individual Consumer Representative from Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties (Area Board 7)
• Steve Silvius
  Family Consumer Representative from Mariposa, Madera, Merced, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern Counties (Area Board 8)
• Yvonne Kluttz
  Individual Consumer Representative from Orange County (Area Board 11)
• VACANCY
  Family Consumer Representative from Inyo, Mono, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties (Area Board 12)
• Lori Kay
  Family Consumer Representative from San Diego and Imperial Counties (Area Board 13)

In addition to the Council's 19 "term" appointments, there are 10 representatives of specified agencies and organizations who serve "at the Governor's pleasure" with no fixed length of term. Agency Council Members identified in Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) Section 4521 (b)(2)(A-I), and in Federal Law:

• Anthony Sauer (Bill Moore)
  Director, Rehabilitation Director 4521(b)(2) (C)
• Jack O’Connell (Daniel Boomer, Ph.D.)
  Superintendent of Public Instruction 4521(b)(2) (D)
• Lynn Daucher (Lora Connolly)
  Director, Older Americans Act Agency 4521(b)(2) (I) [CDA]
• Kimberly Belshé (Jim Alves)
  Social Security Title XIX Agency 4521(b)(2) (A) [CHHSA]
• Terri Delgadillo (Mark Hutchinson)
  Director, Department of Developmental Services 4521(b)(2) (B) [DDS]
• Olivia Raynor, Ph.D.
  Higher Education 4521(b)(2) (F) [UCLA/UCE]
• Robert Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H.
  Higher Education 4521(b)(2) (F) [USC/UCE]
• Catherine Blakemore
  Executive Director, Protection and Advocacy, Inc. Board Rep. 4521(b)(2) (H)
• Sandra Shewry (Karen Johnson)
  Director Of Health Services 4521(b)(2) (G)
• Shirley Dove
  Non-Govt. agency/group concerned with services to Developmental Disabled 4521(b)(2) (E)