Staff Reports

Walnut – The Mt. San Antonio College Board of Trustees elected on Dec. 9 Judy Chen Haggerty as president, Rosanne Bader as vice president, and Dr. Manuel Baca as clerk. These roles are one-year terms and effective immediately.
The board also elected Jay Chen to represent Mt. SAC Trustee Area 5.
Haggerty was the first Asian-American to serve on the board and elected in 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013. She has been a practicing attorney since 1986, a law professor at Rio Hondo College since 2001, and currently serves on the governing board of Whittier Medical Center.
Bader was first elected to the board in 2003. She was reelected in 2007, 2011, and 2015. In 2007, Trustee Bader was elected to the California Community College Trustees Board. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center and serves as a member of the hospital’s Foundation Board. She also presides over the Pomona Rotary Board. She spent 32 years in public education, both as a teacher and administrator. Before retiring from the Pomona Unified School District in 2001, she was principal at two Pomona elementary schools.
Baca was first elected to the board in 1999 and reelected in 2003, 2007, 2011, and 2015. He currently teaches political science at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, where he has also held key academic and administrative positions, including an interim presidency. On the state level, Dr. Baca is president of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. He is a member and past president of the Kiwanis Club of Walnut Valley, a mentor with the El Monte Union High School District’s Graphic Arts & Communications Academy, and on the executive committee of the Rio Hondo Boys & Girls Club of Bell Gardens. He has also been a member of the 32nd Congressional District’s U.S. Military Academies Advisory Committee.
Chen previously served on the Board of Education for the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District for two terms. He ran for Congress in 2012. A graduate of San Gabriel Valley public schools and Harvard University, Jay previously worked at Bain & Company as a management consultant and currently owns his own real estate business. He is a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve and a Marshall Memorial Fellow. He has served as an executive volunteer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
The board consists of seven elected community members and one student trustee. The other Mt. SAC trustees are outgoing president Dr. David K. Hall, trustee Laura Santos, trustee Robert Hidalgo, and student trustee Elizabeth Santos.
The Mt. San Antonio College Board of Trustees meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in Founders Hall at 1100 North Grand Avenue.