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A former fellow at the nonprofit public
interest law firm Earthjustice,
Brian Schmidt has
been the Committee's Santa Clara County Legislative Advocate since
spring of 2003.
Schmidt is working closely with other
environmental groups to help identify County-wide priorities for
open space protection, safeguard the County's eastern foothills
from ridgetop development, and monitor compliance with Stanford's
General Use Permit, a document the Committee for Green Foothills
helped forge. He is also the primary author
of the CGF blog, launched in 2004
A graduate of Stanford Law School and
Georgetown University, Brian has worked with the Natural
Resources Defense Council and the land use law firm Shute,
Mihaly & Weinberger. He is experienced with the National
Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act,
Clean Air Act, and the California Environmental Quality Act.
Brian leads the Conservation Council,
a group working to protect natural resources on the Peninsula and
South Bay. He also serves on the Santa Clara Valley Water District's
Environmental Advisory Committee, as well as on that group's advisory
committee for their performance audit. Schmidt serves on the Coyote
Valley Technical Advisory Committee and the Santa Clara County Stakeholder
Committee for the Williamson Act, and volunteers on the Board of
the Santa Clara Valley
League of Conservation Voters.
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For nearly 30 years, Lennie
Roberts has been the voice of Committee for Green Foothills
in San Mateo County. One of the Bay Areas most respected environmental
leaders, Roberts has led CGF in a number of critical open space battles
on the San Mateo Coast and along Skyline. She is a vigilant and
attentive watchdog of the Board of Supervisors, and helped found
the Midpeninsula
Regional Open Space District in 1972.

Roberts has received a number of honors
and awards, including the Carla Bard Award from the Planning
and Conservation League, Conservationist of the Year from
the Peninsula Conservation Center, the Josephine Duveneck Award
from the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Greenbelt Alliance's
Greenbelt Champion Award for her work to preserve the San
Mateo County coastside. She was elected to the San Mateo County
Women's Hall of Fame in 2003, was named by the Half Moon
Bay Review as one of the top 25 people who shaped the
San Mateo County Coast over the past century, has been honored as
a Coastal Champion on the 25th Anniversary of the California
Coastal Act. She holds a B.A. in
Art from Stanford University.
Lennie works hard to safeguard our celebrated
coastal vistas and endangered agricultural lands, preserve Pescadero
Marsh and its fragile watershed, limit house sizes on the South
Coast, and support the successful coastal expansion of the Midpeninsula
Regional Open Space District.
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