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2008 TPB Officers

Chair - Phil Mendelson
Chair Mendelson was first elected to the District of Columbia Council in November 1998. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary and is a member of four additional committees: Health; Housing and Urban Affairs; Human Services; and Libraries, Parks and Recreation. He also represents the District of Columbia on the Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee.

Active with District issues since 1975, Chair Mendelson joined the McLean Gardens Residents Association to save that 43-acre housing complex from destruction. He ran for a seat on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in 1979 and continued to serve as an ANC Commissioner until he took office as an at-large member of the Council. He came to Washington from Cleveland, Ohio in 1970 to obtain a Bachelors degree in political science from The American University.

Chair Mendelson is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO), a national organization representing the interests of transportation planning agencies like the TPB. From his years of service on the TPB and AMPO, he has developed an unusually high level of expertise in regional planning issues, such as air quality conformity, and has been a strong advocate within the District of Columbia for regional cooperation.

First Vice Chair - Charles Jenkins
First Vice-Chair Jenkins is a veteran of the United States Navy, having served four years as a Navy Cryptologist.  During his tenure, he earned the Navy Achievement Medal and the Joint Services Achievement Medal.  A 1990 graduate of James Madison University, he holds a bachelors degree in the Russian language with minors in history and Russian studies. He is a private pilot and member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and he loves to fly over Frederick County’s beautiful landscape.  He currently serves as a Realtor at Re/Max 100. 

 

Second Vice Chair - David Snyder
Second Vice-Chair Snyder was first sworn in as a member of the Falls Church City Council in 1994. He has served as Mayor and Vice Mayor of the City of Falls Church, having been elected to four terms on the City Council, most recently in May 2006. From 2004 to 2006 he chaired the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, and continues to serve as a member of the Authority. He currently chairs the TPB's Management, Operations and Intelligent Transportation Systems Policy Task Force, as well as the Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee.

He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dickinson College and graduated from the George Washington University Law School. He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.