CWF’s
board of directors announced three new appointments following its December 2003
meeting. Earl G. Mink was named chair, Douglas X. Patiño was reappointed vice
chair, and Barbara C. Staggers, M.D., was named as a new board member.
Mink joined TCWF’s board in 1992 and served as its chair in 1996 and 1997. He
was group insurance manager for Lockheed Corporation for 25 years. Prior to that
position, he worked for Hughes Aircraft Company and was a county commissioner
for the Los Angeles Health Planning and Development Agency. He has served on the
boards of the Delta Dental Plan of California and Health Net, and on the
California Chamber of Commerce Health Policy Committee.
Patiño, who joined TCWF’s board in 1997, previously served as vice chair in 2002
and 2003. He is vice chancellor emeritus for the California State University (CSU)
system, a professor of social welfare at CSU Los Angeles, and president of the
Patiño Group. Among his many community service activities, Patiño is a trustee
of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; a presidential appointee to the
Enterprise for the Americas Board; and a member of the board of directors of
Hispanics in Philanthropy, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Association
of Black Foundation Executives.
Staggers, director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital
and Research Center at Oakland, brings more than 20 years of experience in
pediatric and adolescent health care to the Foundation. She also co-directs the
hospital’s Health Professions Internship Partnership and is a physician
consultant to the City of Berkeley’s Department of Public Health. Previously,
she worked for 10 years as an adolescent specialist and director of school-based
clinics for the Oakland Unified School District. Staggers has received numerous
awards for her work, including the Lewis Hine Child Labor Committee Award, and
recognitions from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the California State
Senate.
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