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Walnut: Mt. SAC Trustees Elect New Officers

By Mike Taylor

Walnut – At the annual organizational meeting on Dec. 10, the Mt. San Antonio College Board of Trustees elected Dr. David K. Hall as President, Judy Chen-Haggerty as Vice President, and Rosanne Bader as Clerk. They will serve one-year terms, effective immediately.

David Hall

Dr. David Hall
(Photo Courtesy: http://www.mtsac.edu)

Dr. Hall is currently the longest-serving member of the Mt. SAC Board of Trustees.  He was appointed to the Board in October 1995 after serving two terms as President of the Mt. SAC Foundation.  Hall was later elected to four-year board terms in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, and most recently ran unopposed in 2013.  He is Chairman of the Industry Manufacturers Council (IMC) Human Resources Committee, Vice President of the Regional Chamber of Commerce – San Gabriel Valley, Board Member of the San Gabriel Valley Civic Alliance, Board Member of the San Gabriel Valley YMCA, and Vice Chairman of the Oversight Board of the Successor Agency for both the Covina Redevelopment Agency and the San Dimas Redevelopment Agency. Professionally, Dr. Hall is Senior Vice President of Hitchcock Automotive Resources, which owns and operates auto dealerships throughout Southern California.

Judy Chen-Haggerty

Judy Chen-Haggerty (Photo Courtesy: http://www.mtsac.edu)

Chen-Haggerty was elected to the Board in 2001, 2005, 2009, and ran unopposed in 2013. She is the first Asian-American to serve on the board. She is a practicing attorney, law professor at Rio Hondo College, and the Law Area Chair for the University of Phoenix.  At the state level, Chen-Haggerty has served on the California Community College Trustee Officers Nominating Committee. She also represented Mt. SAC in the California Leadership Alliance for Student Success statewide project funded by the James Irvine Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She currently is the co-chair of the Advisory Committee on Education Services of the Community College League of California, the Charles Kennedy Equity Awards Committee, and serves on the Evaluation Team of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges. During her 30 years of community service, Chen-Haggerty has been a founding director of the FORUS foundation (Rowland Unified School District), founding president of the Rowland Chinese Association, executive board member for the Mt. SAC Foundation, Advisory Committee member of Mt. SAC Regional Health Occupations, Vice President of the Rowland Heights Community Coordinating Council, member of the Walnut Valley Rotary Club, and a 10-year board member of Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital.

 

Rosanne-Bader

Rosanne Bader (Photo Courtesy: http://www.mtsac.edu)

Bader was elected to the Mt. SAC Board of Trustees in 2003 and reelected in 2007 and 2011. In 2007, Trustee Bader was elected to the California Community College Trustees Board, which makes recommendations about education policy issues pending before the state Board of Governors and the California Legislature. 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. Bader 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 Diamond Point Elementary School in Diamond Bar and formerly served as principal of Allison Elementary School in Pomona.

The other Mt. SAC trustees are outgoing president, Fred Chyr, trustee Dr. Manuel Baca, trustee Laura Santos, trustee Robert Hidalgo, and student trustee Paola Mendoza.

 

 

 

Walnut: Mt. SAC Trustees Elect New Officers, New Trustees Installed

Walnut—At its annual organizational meeting on Dec. 11, the Mt. SAC Board of Trustees elected Fred Chyr as president, Dr. David K. Hall as vice president, and Judy Chen Haggerty, Esq., as clerk for a one-year term.  Also new trustees Laura Santos and Robert Hidalgo were sworn in to four-year terms as the Mt. SAC governing board expanded from five to seven members as a result of district reorganization.

The vast Mt. SAC geographic district was restructured earlier this year into seven trustee areas, requiring each representative to reside in and be elected from those areas versus the historical at-large process.

President Chyr (District 5) was elected to the governing board in November 1995 and reelected in 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011.  He last served as board president in 2009.  He has nearly 30 years of experience in business and education and currently serves as Associate Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at the University of La Verne.

Vice President Hall (District 2) is the longest-serving trustee by one month over Chyr in that he was appointed to fill a board vacancy in October 1995.  Two years later, he was elected to the position and was reelected in 2001, 2005, 2009 and this past November (unopposed).  Hall previously served two terms as president of the Mt. SAC Foundation.   Professionally, Dr. Hall is senior vice president of Hitchcock Automotive Resources, which owns and operates auto dealerships throughout Southern California.

Board Clerk Chen Haggerty (District 6) was elected to the board in 2001 and reelected in 2005, 2009, and this past November (also unopposed).  She is the first Asian-American to serve as a trustee and a former president of the board.   Trustee Chen Haggerty is a practicing attorney, law professor at Rio Hondo College, and the Law Area Chair for the University of Phoenix.  (Read her bio at [link]).

Trustee Santos was elected in November to represent the newly created District 3, which covers La Puente, Bassett, Baldwin Park, and Irwindale.  She previously served on the Basset Unified School District Board since 2007.

Trustee Hidalgo was also elected in November to represent the newly created District 4, which covers most of West Covina and Valinda.  He previously served on the Rowland Unified School Board of Education since 2005.

Completing the board membership are outgoing president Dr. Manuel Baca (District 7) and trustee Rosanne Bader (District 1).  In addition, a student trustee (currently Karina Maureira), is elected annually by the student body to represent its interests on the board.