DICK SPOTSWOOD is the politics and government columnist for The Marin

Independent Journal. He has been the elections commentator for

KRCB-Television (PBS) Channel 22 in Rohnert Park for the past twelve years.

Dick is a former council member and three-term Mayor of the City of Mill

Valley. He served for ten years as a Director of the Golden Gate Bridge

District. He was co-chair of the Doyle Drive Commission, a member of the

Northwestern Pacific Railroad Acquisition Committee, and Chair of the

original Marin Transportation Authority. A San Francisco native, Dick is a

graduate of the University of San Francisco and its School of Law. In

private life he is a trial attorney and mediator and has lived with this

wife Joanne and their two children in Mill Valley since 1976. He is the

former president of the Rotary Club of Mill Valley, the Mountain Play

Association and the College of Marin Foundation.

JOANNE P. SPOTSWOOD is the owner of Paper Trail Press, a San Rafael,

California publisher of nationally distributed greeting cards (available at

better stationary and gift stores in the metropolitan Boston area). A former

corporate controller in the gift industry and Vice President of both

Westamerica Bank and the Bank of America, Joanne is a graduate of the

University of Santa Clara and received her MBA from the University of

California (Berkeley). She is a former Capitol Hill staff member for Rep.

Henry Helstoski (D-Bergen County New Jersey)