He has served on an array of state and regional commissions, including being appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly to the Commission on Regionalism, President of the Yolo County Health Council,member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Governor's Initiative to Turn Around Failing Schools, appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, and a member of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Protection Commission. He was President of the National Brownfields Association (California), chair of the Yolo County Transportation District, chair of the Yolo County Health Council, and a director for the Great Valley Center.