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.

For nearly 30 years, Lennie Roberts has been the voice of Committee for Green Foothills in San Mateo County. One of the Bay Area’s 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.