Jesse Boomer, 60, of Elk Grove, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. He is a currently a member of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities and assists with the grant review process of the council’s Planning and Program Development Committee. Since 1998, Boomer has served as a special education consultant with the California Department of Education. From 1988 to 1991, he worked as a Program Analyst at the United States Office of Special Education in Washington, D.C. Boomer began his career almost 20 years ago as a member of numerous councils and commissions at the University of Oregon including the National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils, Oregon State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, the Oregon Commission on the Handicapped and the Oregon Council of the Blind. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Boomer is a Democrat.

Kevin Broadwater, 43, of Laguna Hills, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. Since 2005, he has served as senior vice president of the legal and compliance department of Pacific Investment Management Company. From 1994 to 2005, Broadwater was counsel at Seward & Kissel and, from 1992 to 1994, was an attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to that, he was an associate with Dechert, Price and Rhoads from 1989 to 1992. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Broadwater is a Republican.

Robert Ludlow Jr., 69, of Santa Cruz, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. He has served on numerous councils including past chair of the San Lorenzo Unified School District Board of Education, Santa Cruz Commission on Disabilities and the Santa Cruz City Housing Advisory Commission. Ludlow has been a lawyer in self-practice since 1967 and was an associate with Lucas, Wykoff, Miller, Stanley and Scott from 1965 to 1967. In 1970, he formed the Law Offices of Ludlow, Kreutzmann, Thompson, Fitzwater and Bowles and practiced law there until 1986.  Ludlow was also a member of the Tri-County Criminal Justice Commission from 1968 to 1970. As an attorney, he devotes his practice exclusively to disabled rights advocacy and advocates on behalf of people with disabilities. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Ludlow is a Democrat.

Susan Madison, 58, of Escondido, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. She has served on numerous councils including the Citizens’ Review Committee on Disability Access and the Phoenix Mayor’s Commission on Disability Issues and is former chair of the Arizona State Independent Living Council. Since 2007, Madison has served as disability services coordinator for the city of San Diego. Additionally, she has been a disability consultant and trainer for non-profit organizations including Access to Independence of San Diego and Arizona State Independent Living Council since 1990. From 2006 to 2007, Madison was coordinator for the San Diego Disability Action Coalition and, from 2005 to 2006, was associate director for the Center for an Accessible Society. From 2000 to 2005, she was project manager for the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities and also, in 2000, participated in a public policy fellowship for the National Council on Disability. Prior to that, Madison was executive director for the Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities from 1997 to 1999 and was director of education and prevention at the Center Against Sexual Abuse in Phoenix from 1990 to 1997. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Madison is registered decline-to-state.

Patricia O’Sullivan, 48, of San Jose, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. She has been a member of the State Rehabilitation Council since 2002 and the Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities since 2003. O'Sullivan has served as the global disability program manager for Agilent Technologies since 2000, where she is responsible for accessibility and accommodation programs for 19,000 employees worldwide. She has owned CoCo Diva, a chocolatier company, since 1989 and Patty O’Sullivan Consulting Services since 2007. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. O’Sullivan is a Democrat.

Cherie Phoenix, 48, of Thousand Oaks, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. Most recently, she served as executive director for the Brain Injury Center in Ventura County from 2005 to January 2008. Phoenix is a member of the board of directors of the Tri-Counties Independent Living Resource Center, Incorporated headquartered in Santa Barbara, the Ventura County Nonprofit Leadership Council and the Ventura County Department of Public Health Vulnerable Populations Disaster Planning Task Force. She previously served as chair of the Thousand Oaks Disabled Access Appeals & Advisory Board and was a member of the California Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board. Phoenix served as office manager at University Elementary School in Thousand Oaks from 2001 to 2004 and served two terms as president of the PTA from 1998 to 2000. This position does not require Senate confirmation there is no salary. Phoenix is a Democrat.

Elsa Quezada, 55, of Salinas, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. Since 1991, she has been the executive director of the Central Coast Center for Independent Living where she also served as program coordinator from 1988 to 1990. Quezada worked at Community Rehabilitation Services Independent Living Center in East Los Angeles as executive director from 1982 to 1988 and services coordinator from 1981 to 1982. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Quezada is a Democrat.

Eduardo Rea, 19, of Fresno, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. He is currently enrolled at American River College. Rea is a volunteer for the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, past member and current staff of the California Youth Leadership Forum and member of the Association of Youth Leadership Forums. He has also been a student commissioner for the State Department of Education’s Advisory Commission on Special Education and co-founder of the California Youth Leadership Forum Alumni Alliance. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Rea is registered decline-to-state.

Marco Rodriguez, 42, of Elk Grove, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. Since 1991, he has been a financial advisor for the Principal Financial Group. Rodriguez is president of the Mexican Cultural Center of Northern California. He is a past member of the National Council on Disability, former chair of the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and former president of the board of directors for Mexican-American Alcoholism Program Incorporated. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Rodriguez is a Republican.

David Tripp, 57, of Orleans, has been appointed to the State Independent Living Council. He has served on the council since 2003 and has also served on the State Rehabilitation Council since 2007. Since 1998, Tripp has worked for the Hoopa Valley Tribal Council as a program manager for the Hoopa Yurok Vocational Rehabilitation Program. Prior to that, he was a coordinator for the Klamath-Trinity Branch Campus for the College of the Redwoods from 1993 to 1997 and education director for the education department of the Karuk Tribe of California from 1991 to 1992. Tripp is a part-time associate faculty member at College of the Redwoods, where he teaches courses in psychology, sociology and Native American studies. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Tripp is a Democrat.