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Fiscal Year 2017 Board Members

Fiscal Year 2017 Board Members
Public Representatives

J. Anthony Beard
Chief Financial Officer, City of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Robert Clarke Brown
Treasurer, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Julia H. Cooper
Director of Finance, City of San Jose
San Jose, California

Ronald Dieckman
Retired
Holly Springs, North Carolina

Richard K. Ellis
Senior Director of Compliance and Communications, Utah Educational Savings Plan
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dall Forsythe
Visiting Scholar, New York University Wagner School of Public Service
New York, New York

Richard Froehlich
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, New York City Housing Development Corporation
New York, New York

Mark Kim1
Chief Financial Officer, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
Washington, DC

Lakshmi Kommi2
Director of Debt Management, City of San Diego
San Diego, California

Christopher M. Ryon
Managing Director, Thornburg Investment Management
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rita Sallis 
Retired
West Orange, New Jersey

Colleen Woodell (Chair)
Retired
Baldwin, New York

Securities Firm Representatives

Gary Hall
Senior Managing Director, National Head of Investment Banking and Equity Partner, Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., LLC
Oakland, California

Lucy Hooper
Executive Vice President, Davenport & Company LLC
Richmond, Virginia

Arthur Miller (Vice Chair)
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.
New York, New York

Patrick Sweeney3
Senior Vice President, Fixed Income Trading, Fidelity Capital Markets
Boston, Massachusetts

Municipal Advisor Representatives

Steve Apfelbacher   
President, Ehlers and Associates
Roseville, Minnesota

Renee Boicourt
Managing Director and Partner, Lamont Financial Services Corporation
Fairfield, New Jersey

Jerry W. Ford
President, Ford & Associates, Inc.
Tampa, Florida

Bank Representatives

Kemp J. Lewis
Senior Managing Director, Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
New York, New York

Edward J. Sisk
Managing Director, Head of Public Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
New York, New York

Dale Turnipseed
Executive Director, J.P. Morgan
New York, New York

1 Resigned February 8, 2017
2 Term commenced February 27, 2017
3 Resigned June 30, 2017