Two San Diego County residents are among eight people appointed or reappointed to the California Commission on Aging.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced he was naming Joaquin Anguera, 72, of San Diego to the commission as well as Sedalia Louise Sanders, 74, of El Centro.
Sanders, a Democrat, was a member of the El Centro City Council from 2003 to 2015 and 1984 to 1999, where she served as mayor five times. She was a laboratory technician and medical technician at the Imperial County Public Health Department from 1965 to 2004 and a laboratory technologist and trainee at the El Centro Community Hospital from 1962 to 1964.
Sanders earned a master of business administration degree from the University of Phoenix.
Anguera, also a Democrat, has been a professor at San Diego State University since 1999. He served in several positions at the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency’s Aging and Independent Services from 1974 to 2005, including as deputy director.
Anguera is a member of Elder Law and Advocacy, Independent Transportation Network, Greater San Diego and Consumer Advocates for Residential Care for the Elderly Reform.
He earned a Ph.D. in human behavior from Alliant International University and a master of theology degree from the Catholic University of America.
The positions do not require Senate confirmation, and there is no compensation.
The commission, established in 1973 by the Burton Act, has 25 commissioners; 19 appointed by the governor, three appointed by the speaker of the Assembly, and three by the Senate Rules Committee. All serve three-year terms as volunteers.
The panel serves as “the principal advocate in the state on behalf of older individuals, including … advisory participation in the consideration of all legislation and regulations made by state and federal departments and agencies relating to programs and services that affect older individuals.”
