Joan Barram and Laura Casas Frier were unanimously elected to the offices of president and vice president, respectively, of the Foothill – De Anza Board of Trustees during the board’s annual organizational meeting Dec. 5, 2011.

The newly seated president Barram subsequently made the following appointments:

Vice president Casas Frier will join the district’s Audit and Finance Committee.

Trustee Betsy Bechtel will return as committee chair.

Trustees Swenson and Cheng will serve on the district’s Board of Trustees in addition to the committee that conducts interviews for the annual trustee scholarships.

Barram has served for nearly a decade on Foothill-De Anza’s Board of Trustees, is a long time member of De Anza’s Euphrat Museum of Art and was a member of the “Yes on Measure C” campaign committee.

Casas Frier joined the district’s board in 2005 and was elected in 2011 to the Community College League of California’s Trustee Board.