Board of Commissioners
The office of the Yamhill County Commissioners has moved across the street and is now located at 434 NE Evans Street.
Click here for a map showing the new location.
There are three Yamhill County Commissioners who are elected to serve terms of four years each.
Click here to find each commissioner's areas of responsibility.
Kathy George - Chair
Kathy is currently serving in her second four-year term as Yamhill County Commissioner. Since she began her service as a commissioner in 2003, she has worked to ensure cost-effective, responsive, and accountable government.
As commissioner, Kathy formed and continues to head the Yamhill County Water Task Force, which is composed of representatives from all ten communities in the county working together to ensure adequate long-term water supplies for local communities. She is also a member of the Association of Oregon Counties Water Committee, which monitors legislation that might affect the water rights of local citizens and cities.
Kathy helped create a Ten-Year Ending Homelessness Plan for Yamhill County and also formed an Ending Homeless Governing Council to prevent and eventually eliminate chronic homelessness by helping individuals achieve maximum self-sufficiency through permanent housing and coordinated services.
As liaison commissioner to the county's Health & Human Services department, Kathy has prioritized cooperation and coordination between non-profits, faith-based groups, local citizens, and county departments in providing needed services. She has prioritized support-employment services for those with severe mental illnesses so they can live more normal lives. She is liaison commissioner to NorthWest Senior & Disability Services.
She has served as liaison commissioner to various other county departments, including Veterans Services, Emergency Management, Sheriff's Office, Community Corrections, District Attorney's Office, Juvenile Department, Commission on Children & Families, Parks, Planning, Clerk's Office, and Assessor's Office.
Kathy currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors for YCAP, the county's regional food bank and a public transit provider.
She represents the Association of Oregon Counties on the State Interoperability Executive Council (SIEC) and on the Oversight Committee to Oregon's Wireless Interoperability Network (OWIN). She was recently appointed by the governor to the Oregon Broadband Advisory Council.
Kathy worked as a Legislative Assistant in the state legislature from 1995 to 1997.
Click here to e-mail Commissioner George
Mary P. Stern - Vice Chair 
Mary is serving in her second term as County Commissioner.
Mary Stern was born and raised in Waltham, Massachusetts, a western suburb of Boston.
Mary graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Westfield State
College in 1981. She received her Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School in
1991. After graduating from law school, Mary was selected by the U.S. Department of Justice
as an Honors Attorney and was assigned to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Western Regional
Office. In August of 1992, she transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan,
Oregon, where she served as the Attorney Advisor; she later served as the Executive Assistant
to the Warden. Mary left the prison in 1998 to work at the U.S. District Court in Portland. In
June of 2001, Mary became a self-employed consultant, most recently handling resident
relations for Hillside Retirement Community in McMinnville until January of 2002.
Mary and her husband, Matt, live in McMinnville where they are raising their daughter, Sydney.
Mary has been involved on the boards of Arts Alliance of Yamhill County, Hillside Communities,
Tiny Tots Club, Habitat for Humanity, YCAP, and the Oregon Workforce Investment Board.
In addition to the responsibilities listed on the link, Mary currently serves as the Chair of YCAP’s Capital Campaign,
and on the Board of Directors for the Willamette Valley Cancer Foundation and the Oregon Construction Contractors Board.
Click here to e-mail Commissioner Stern
Leslie Lewis - Commissioner
Leslie is serving in her third term as County Commissioner.
Commissioner Lewis, a lifelong Oregonian, was born and raised in Medford. Leslie graduated
from Oregon State University in 1975 with a B.S. degree in Biochemistry-Biophysics. Her
work experience includes almost five years with Intel Corporation in manufacturing
engineering. Since 1983, Leslie and her husband, Don have owned an electronics
manufacturing company. Their business, called Uptime Technology, Inc., has been located in
Newberg since 1987.
Leslie was appointed to the Yamhill County Planning Commission in 1990, serving for over 10 years. In 1994, she
was elected to the Oregon Legislature as a State Representative. During her third and final term, Leslie was Co-Chair
of the Joint Ways and Means Committee, responsible for the entire state's budget for all state agencies. Leslie also
served as Co-Chair of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Chair of the House Environment and Energy
Committee, and as a member of numerous committees, including House Revenue and House Judiciary.
Leslie and her husband Don were married in 1974, live near Carlton, and manage their small woodland tree farm.
Click here to e-mail Commissioner Lewis
You may contact the commissioners by phone at (503)434-7501, by individual email, or by mail:
Yamhill County Commissioners Office
535 NE 5TH St.
McMinnville, OR 97128
