Golden Gate
Bridge Board of Directors Elect New Officers
On Friday, December 13, 2002, the
Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and
Transportation District elected Stanley Smith, Jr. as its 36th
president. Maureen Middlebrook was elected first vice president and
Maryanne Harrison was elected second vice president. They will each
serve a two-year term beginning January 1, 2003.
Stanley Smith was appointed to the
Board by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in February 1996 and
serves as one of nine San Francisco representatives. During his
tenure on the Board, he has served as vice chair of the District’s
Transportation Committee and as a member of the Rules,
Policy, and Industrial Relations Committee and the Governmental
Affairs and Public Information Committee. Smith has served as
secretary-treasurer and business representative of the San Francisco
Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO since 1975. Prior
to that, he served as field representative for Glaziers Union Local
#718 from 1965 to 1975 and as its president from 1958 to 1965. From
1958 to 1975, he was a member of the Flat Glass Industry Joint
Apprenticeship and Training Committee. Smith has also served on the
Executive Committee of the California State Building Trades Council
and as vice president of the San Francisco Labor Council from 1990
to 1995. Smith is active in a number of community projects including
serving as the secretary of the Board of Directors to the Ella Hill
Hutch Community Center in the Western Addition, president of the
Board of Young Community Developers in Bayview/Hunters Point, and
chair of the Mission Bay Community Advisory Committee.
In 1992, the Sonoma County Board
of Supervisors appointed Maureen Middlebrook as one of three Sonoma
County representatives. She served as the second vice president of
the Board for the last two years and has most recently served as
chair of the Rules, Policy, and Industrial Relations Committee and
as a member of the Building and Operating Committee. Active in
transportation issues, Middlebrook was also once a member of the
Sonoma County Transportation Authority Citizen Advisory Committee.
Middlebrook is a public affairs consultant working with a variety of
clients including Empire Waste, Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, and
Sonoma Technology and Manufacturing Group. Previously, she was the
assistant general manager at Empire Waste, a public affairs
representative for Pacific Gas and Electric, and vice president of
Sonoma Financial Corporation.
In March 2001, Maryanne Harrison
joined the Board as an appointee by the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors. She has most recently served as a member of the
Transportation Committee and the Rules, Policy, and Industrial
Relations Committee. Since 1995, Harrison has been employed as the
Director of Extended Care for the St. Vincent de Paul School in San
Francisco and worked with Bank of America. She is a member and past
president of the Auxiliary to the St. Vincent de Paul Youth Club and
a member of the Auxiliary of Little Children’s Aid of San
Francisco. She is also a past member of Archdiocese of the San
Francisco School Board, Sacred Heart Cathedral High School Parents
Association, and St. Vincent de Paul Parents Association.
