Five appointed to the Yolo County Fair board

Five Yolo County residents were appointed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown to the 40th District Agricultural Association, Yolo County Fair board of directors. They are:

* Angel Barajas, 29, of Woodland, who has served as a labor representative at the Service Employees International Union Local 1000 since 2007. He was an assistant deputy supervisor for Yolo County Supervisor Frank Sieferman from 2006 to 2007.

Barajas is president of the Woodland Joint Unified School District Board of Education, where he has been a member since 2010. He is a Democrat.

* Laurie Schuler-Flynn, 49, of Woodland, who has been an agricultural and standards specialist for the Yolo County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office since 1988. She has co-owned Hill Stone Olive Oil since 2004 and has been a member of the California Olive Oil Council since 2006. She is a Democrat.

* Bart Vanucci, 47, of Brooks, who has served as a financial advisor for Primerica Financial Services since 1987. Vanucci has been a volunteer with the Yolo County Future Farmers of America Leadership Council since 1997. He is a Republican.

* Katie Villegas, 45, of West Sacramento, who has been a fair board member since 2009. She has served as executive director of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance since 2006.

Villegas was an analyst at the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs in 2005 and an analyst at the Department of Public Health from 1991 to 2005. She  is a Democrat.

* Elaine Yamaguchi, 47, of Woodland, who has served as a legislative analyst at the California Public Employees Retirement System since 2007. Yamaguchi was the director of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program at the California State Library from 2005 to 2006.

She served as special assistant in the Office of the Speaker of the Assembly from 1998 to 2005 and held multiple positions at the Center for Asian American Media from 1993 to 1997, including managing director. She is a Democrat.

These positions do not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation.

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Posted by Enterprise staff on Dec 30 2011.
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