Meet the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners oversees the management and operation of the Port of Los Angeles, the number one port in the nation, ranked by container volume. The five-member board is appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles and confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council. The commissioners serve five-year terms and elections are held every July for the offices of president and vice president.

President Cindy Miscikowski

Cindy Miscikowski was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and elected president of the Board in July 2009.  She served as member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1997 to 2005, after having been chief of staff to Councilmember Marvin Braude over 20 years. She has been involved in public service for over 35 years in the City of Los Angeles. 

Miscikowski is widely recognized as an authority on urban planning, revitalizing the City’s land-use policies and spearheading the adoption of a new master plan for the Los Angeles International Airport in 2005.  She also authored two pioneering voter-approved initiatives, one banning oil drilling on the city’s coastline in 1988 and another, imposing density limitations in most of the City’s commercially zoned land in 1986. She also played a crucial role in the preservation of thousands of acres of open space in the Santa Monica Mountains for public park and recreation uses.

Miscikowski served as Chair of the Council’s Public Safety Committee for five years, where she led  the efforts to streamline the recruitment and hiring of police officers, implement the reforms of the federal Consent Decree at the Los Angeles Police Department, and insure the funding for full paramedic resources at all Los Angeles Fire Stations. In addition, her public policy expertise includes budget oversight, municipal finance and advocacy of citizen participation in government process.

Miscikowski received a degree from UCLA in political science in 1970 and has been involved in a number of nonprofit organizations serving of boards of director since leaving the City Council, including the Los Angeles Police Foundation, Los Angeles Music Center for the Performing Arts, Genesis Los Angeles and Center for Governmental Studies.

Awards:

• 2008 - UCLA Alumni Award for Excellence in Public Service
• 2005 - UCLA Local Legislator of the Year Award
• 2005 - Ira E. Yellin Community Leadership Award, American Jewish Committee, Los Angeles Chapter
• 2001 - Distinguished Leadership Award for Elected Officials, American Planning Association, Southern California
• 1986 - Award of Excellence for Outstanding Service, American Institute of Architects, San Fernando Valley Section
  

Vice President - Vacant

Commissioner Kaylynn L. Kim

Kaylynn L. Kim was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and confirmed by Los Angeles City Council on September 9, 2005.

Kim and her fellow Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners partnered with the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners and took unprecedented action by approving the landmark San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan in November 2006. The Clean Air Action Plan provides a comprehensive strategy for reducing air emissions from port operations by nearly 50 percent over a period of five years. Their efforts yielded the first joint meeting of the leaders of the two ports since the 1920s and the first-ever public meeting of the two Boards on November 20, 2006, the day the Plan was approved.

A successful attorney, Kim currently serves as an associate at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natis, LLP, where she concentrates on international trade and investment, real estate and land-use, and corporate law.  Previously, Kim served as president of Kaylynn L. Kim & Associates, where she specialized in business litigation and employment relations. Prior to that, she worked as an associate at the Law Offices of James Bang, where she handled foreign and domestic clients in a variety of corporate affairs.

Kim’s accomplishments are not limited to the practice of law. Before receiving her juris doctor from Southwestern University Law School, she was a partner at the Melrose Wellness Medical Center, where she focused on elder care, rehabilitation and sports medicine. She also holds a doctor of chiropractic degree from the Southern California University of Health Sciences.

Kim speaks fluent Korean and conversational Chinese. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Koreatown Youth Community Center and on the Advisory Board of the Lanterman Developmental Center.

Kim is a member of the Climate Adaptation Advisory Panel, appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. This panel is charged with developing recommendations for action for three key hazards due to climate change: increased wildfires and extended fire seasons, rising sea levels along California’s coast and reduced availability of water due to reduced snowpack in the Sierras and extended periods of drought.

Commissioner Douglas P. Krause

Douglas P. Krause was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and confirmed by Los Angeles City Council on September 9, 2005.

Krause and his fellow Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners partnered with the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners and took unprecedented action by approving the landmark San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan in November 2006. The Clean Air Action Plan provides a comprehensive strategy for reducing air emissions from port operations by nearly 50 percent over a period of five years. Their efforts yielded the first joint meeting of the leaders of the two ports since the 1920s and the first-ever public meeting of the two Boards on November 20, 2006, the day the Plan was approved.

Krause serves as executive vice president, chief risk officer, and general counsel in the Los Angeles headquarters of East West Bank. In this role, he is closely involved with trade finance and export-import issues. His responsibilities also include oversight of risk management, corporate governance processes and code of ethics; Institutional Shareholder Services rates East West Bank’s governance processes in top 1 percent of companies.

Before joining East West Bank, Krause was corporate senior vice president and general counsel of Metrobank from 1991 to 1996. Prior to that, he worked for the law firms of Dewey Ballantine, and Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue, where he specialized in financial services.

Krause has lived in Los Angeles for the past 20 years. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Carleton College before receiving his juris doctor from Columbia Law School, where he was editor of the Law Review.

Commissioner Joseph R. Radisich

Joseph R. Radisich was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and confirmed by Los Angeles City Council on September 6, 2005.

Radisich and his fellow Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners partnered with the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners and took unprecedented action by approving the landmark San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan in November 2006. The Clean Air Action Plan provides a comprehensive strategy for reducing air emissions from port operations by nearly 50 percent over a period of five years. Their efforts yielded the first joint meeting of the leaders of the two ports since the 1920s and the first-ever public meeting of the two Boards on November 20, 2006, the day the Plan was approved.

A lifelong resident of San Pedro, Calif., Radisich served as International Vice President, Mainland, of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) from 2006 to 2010. A longtime leader in the labor community, Radisich also served as president of the Southern California District Council of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and vice president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

Radisich has served as national strategic coordinator for recent ILWU negotiations. He has also served as vice president of Local 13 and as a member of the ILWU political action committee since its inception.

After graduating from Mary Star of the Sea High School in San Pedro, he attended Colorado State University on a football scholarship. Radisich graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in history.