| Meet the Council Members |
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| About OSHC Members |
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The State Housing Council consists of seven members appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate under ORS 171.562 and 171.565. The term of office of each member is four years, but a member serves at the pleasure of the Governor. Before the expiration of the term of a member, the Governor shall appoint a successor whose term begins on July 1 next following. A member is eligible for reappointment. If there is a vacancy for any cause, the Governor shall make an appointment to be immediately effective for the unexpired term.
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| Maggie LaMont, Chair |
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Maggie LaMont has been the Executive Director of the Northeast Oregon Housing Authority in LaGrande, Oregon since 1987. She currently manages 256 affordable housing units in Northeast Oregon.
She has extensive experience dealing with housing issues in Eastern Oregon. “Besides my personal interest in housing, a position on the State Housing Council gives me an opportunity to represent the Association of Oregon Housing Authorities and Eastern Oregon in housing interests.” Ms. LaMont has been an active member of AOHA since 1987 and served as President in 1992.
Nationally, Ms. LaMont has been a member of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment officials (NAHRO) where she served on the Membership Services, Professional Development and Budget and Administrative Committees. She has served on the Board of NAHRO Pacific Northeast Regional Council, NAHRO Cascade Chapter and Community Services.
She attended Woodburn High School and studied accounting at Clackamas Community College. Eastern Oregon has been her home since 1973.
Ms. LaMont began serving on the State Housing Council in July 2003. Her term expires on June 30, 2011.
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| Scott R. Cooper |
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Scott R. Cooper began serving his term on the State Housing Council in July 2004. He is the director of public policy for The Partnership to End Poverty, a non-profit organization serving Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. He is a previous two-term county judge of Crook County and was previously a city councilor for the City of Prineville.
Judge Cooper is very active in his state and community. He is a member of the Crook County School Board. He is also treasurer of Mosaic Medical, a federally qualified healthcare center serving Central Oregon residents in Bend, Madras and Prineville. He is also a board member for a local childcare center in Prineville, a member of the Crook County Rotary, and he is active with various community and faith-based organizations in Prineville.
Judge Cooper’s career includes time as executive director of the Prineville-Crook County Chamber of Commerce; editor of publications for the National Cattlemen’s Association, and previous work in youth development and education.
In 1996, Judge Cooper was awarded the Economic Development Leader of the Year Award by Governor John Kitzhaber in recognition of service to state and local economic development efforts. In 1998, he received the Friend of Education Award from the University of Oregon, College of Education Alumni Society.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1986.
Judge Cooper’s term will expire on June 30, 2010.
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| John Epstein |
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John Epstein began serving his term on the State Housing Council in July 2004. He is the Manager and Senior Vice President of the Real Estate Community Lending Division for Wells Fargo Bank. Before joining the Bank in 1988 he was a project manager with Southeastern Development Group, a real estate development company located in Savannah, Georgia, and prior to that, was a commodities trader for Continental Grain Company.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Epstein serves on the boards for the Network for Oregon Affordable Housing (NOAH), Urban League of Portland, and Community Development Trust. He has also served as a board member for Washington Community Reinvestment Association (WCRA), CASA of Oregon, State of Oregon Community Development Incentive Fund, and the Portland Mittleman Jewish Community Center.
Mr. Epstein’s term will expire on June 30, 2012.
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| Stuart E. Liebowitz |
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Stuart E. Liebowitz is the Multi-family Development Assistant with Umpqua Community Development Corporation.
In 1969 he received a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California at Northridge, and in 1974 a Secondary Teaching Certificate from Western Oregon University.
Mr. Liebowitz has dedicated the past 21 years of his professional life to serving the needs of the poor in his community.
He is a founding board member of the Umpqua Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to housing and economic development. “I have worked with low income people on a broad spectrum of housing issues,” said Mr. Liebowitz. “This direct experience with clients has given me an understanding of the services which can most effectively benefit the poor.”
Mr. Liebowitz began serving on the State Housing Council in November 2002. His term will expire on June 30, 2010.
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| Francisco Lopez |
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Francisco López is a Salvadoran-American that came to the United States in 1985 as a refugee from the war in El Salvador. He is a member of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in South Salem. Mr. López is the Director of CAUSA (Oregon's immigrant Rights Coalition), which is the largest Hispanic/Latino civil and human rights and advocacy organization in the Pacific Northwest. In 2008 he was the Field Director with Voz Hispana Vote Project in Oregon.
Mr. López earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of El Salvador. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the SHARE Foundation, The Western States Center, and is also a member of the Immigrant Organizing Committee, which is the governing body of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement/Reform Immigration for America National Campaign. He has 30 years of experience in community organizing, leadership development, and social service program design in the United States and Latin America. He is also an advocate for the affordable housing needs of farmworkers and the developmentally disabled in Oregon
Mr. López is a recipient of the 1997 Mexican Government Ohtli Medal; 1998 Hispanic Heritage Award from the Austin Independent School District; Providence Portland Medical Center Mission Leadership Award 2000; and the Oregon Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers 2006 Citizen of the Year Award.
Mr. López’s term expires June 30, 2011.
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| Nancy McLaughlin |
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Nancy McLaughlin is the newest member of the Oregon State Housing Council, beginning her term October 1, 2009. She is a Community Development Consultant, providing consultation in affordable housing and community development business planning, lending underwriting, risk management strategies, products, strategic alliances, marketing and management. Clients include nonprofit lending organizations and affordable housing development corporations.
Ms. McLaughlin was formerly the Managing Director of National Lending & Housing Programs for the Low Income Investment Fund, a national community development financial institution that invests capital in housing, child care, education, and other community-building initiatives. Previously, she served as Executive Director of the California Housing Consortium, a statewide education and advocacy organization representing all the varied interests in the affordable housing industry. Prior to that, Nancy was Senior Vice President and National Affordable Housing Project Executive for Bank of America, providing strategic, production and loan management direction to lenders in offices covering 25 states and originating loans for both single-family and multi-family affordable housing at an annual rate of $1 billion.
She also has extensive experience in government, where she served as Chief of Housing Policy Development for the California Department of Housing and Community Development and held several positions within the California State Legislature. In addition, she has served on many local, state and national boards and commissions.
Ms. McLaughlin majored in English Literature at the University of Oregon, and is a graduate of University of Michigan’s School of Business Administration Executive Program. She is a past recipient of the Fair Housing Award, presented by the Sacramento Human Rights/Fair Housing Commission.
Ms. McLaughlin’s term expires June 30, 2013.
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| Jeana Woolley |
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Jeana Woolley is President of JM Woolley & Associates, a planning and development services consulting firm which she established in September, 1991. Prior to setting up her own firm, Ms. Woolley was Director of Operations for Pacific Development, Inc., a real estate subsidiary of PacifiCorp.
Since establishing her own firm, Ms. Woolley has developed affordable housing and commercial mixed-use projects, as well as worked on a number of multi-disciplined consulting teams that produced specific redevelopment and revitalization strategies for commercial corridors in North and Northeast Portland. She was the fee developer of Allen Fremont Plaza, a 64 unit affordable senior housing project in N.E. Portland, which won the Governor's Liveability Award in 1999, and she currently is working on two mixed-use commercial developments on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd in Portland. Some of the major consulting projects she has worked on in the past few years include the MAX Station Revitalization Strategy Report, the Vancouver/Williams Infill Development Strategy Project, the MLK Jr. Blvd. Commercial Development Strategy Porject, and the South/North Light Rail Transit Economic Development Analysis Study.
Ms. Woolley has an extensive record of public service in a variety of community economic development efforts in the Portland area, particularly as it pertains to improving the economic viability and livability of inner Northeast Portland. She currently serves on a number of boards, including the N/NE Economic Development Alliance Board, the Albina Community Bancorp and Bank Boards, the North/Northeast Workforce Center Board, and the MERC Economic Development Opportunities Advisory Board.
Ms. Woolley began serving on the State Housing Council on July 15, 2005. Her original term expires on June 30, 2009. She has been reappointed for another term which expires on June 30, 2013.
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