District 5 Duane Chamberlain

Duane Chamberlain

Biography

Duane Chamberlain was elected to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors in November 2004 and was sworn into office in January 2005.

Mr. Chamberlain was born in Los Angeles in 1937 when Southern California was still largely agricultural. His family moved to the city of Orange when he was a child. He graduated from Orange High School in 1955 and subsequently moved to Yolo County to attend UC Davis. He received a degree from the University in 1959.

Mr. Chamberlain served in the Army before returning to UCD to work as a Lab Tech II from 1962 to 1965. He left the position at UCD to become a farmer, establishing Chamberlain Farms in 1965.

He raises alfalfa, grass and oat hay near his home in rural Yolo County. He also oversees the harvesting of wheat straw for bedding horses at racetracks and rice straw for erosion measures. His hay and straw operations combined, bale in excess of one million bales per year.

In addition, Mr. Chamberlain raises Holstein Heifers for dairies.

Mr. Chamberlain is active in the farming community. He is a past president of the Yolo County Farm Bureau. He served on the Board of Directors and was a member of the Yolo County Farm Bureau Executive Committee.

Mr. Chamberlain also served on the Board of Directors for the Yolo Land Trust and the Woodland Chamber of Commerce. He was also a member of the UC Davis Advisory Committee for the College of Agriculture.

Mr. Chamberlain is a member of the New Testament Church in Woodland.

COUNTY	AD HOC
Cache Creek Conservancy County Airport Advisory (Alt) Finance Invest. & Treasury Oversight HCP/NCCP LAFCO (Alt) Water Resources Association Winters 2x2 Winters Library Financial Authority Woodland 2x2 YCFC & WCD 2x2	Green Buildings Tribal Intergovernmental Relations

REGIONAL	STATE
Cache Creek Watershed Forum Cache Creek Technical Conaway Ranch JPA Lower Putah Creek Coordinating (Alt) No. California Water Association Sac River Conservation Area Forum Sac River Watershed Program Sac Valley Air Basin Council Yolo-Solano Air Quality Mgt Dist	CSAC Committee: Ag & Natural Resources

SPECIAL DISTRICTS 2006

Capay Cemetery District Cottonwood Cemetery District Knights Landing Cemetery Dist Mary's Cemetery District Winters Cemetery District Capay Valley Fire District Dunnigan Fire District Esparto Fire District Knight Landing Fire District Madison Fire District West Plainfield Fire District Willow Oak Fire District Winters Fire District Yolo Fire District Zamora Fire District Dunnigan CSA #11 Rolling Acres Perm. Road Comm. Madison CSA #1

Dunnigan Road Maintenance Snowball Service Area # 6 Cacheville Service District Dunnigan Water District Esparto CSD Knight Landing CSD Madison CSD Yolo-Zamora Water District Knights Landing Ridge Drainage Dist Knights Landing Citizen Adv Committee Dunnigan Citizen Advisory Committee Esparto Citizen Advisory Committee Capay Valley Citizen Advisory Committee Rec. Dist 108 Rec. Dist 730 Rec. Dist 787

Supervisor Chamberlain can be reached at:

625 Court Street, Room 204
Woodland, CA 95695
(530) 666-8627 Fax: (530) 666-8193 or eMail

Deputy Patricia Valenzuela, phone (530) 666-8227,
Assistant Deputy Nate Palmer phone (530) 666-8236