PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Metro Council, the agency that oversees Portland-area land-use and transportation planning in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties.
The Oregonian reports the vacancy opened when Robert Liberty resigned his Metro District 6 position in January to take a job at the University of Oregon.
Liberty, an attorney, was the council’s leading proponent of a tight urban growth boundary and other views favored by conservation groups.
The 74-year-old Roberts is Oregon’s first and only woman governor, elected in 1990 and serving a four-year term. Before that she served two terms as secretary of state and was a state representative and Multnomah County commissioner. Most recently, she was appointed in 2009 to the bi-state Columbia River Gorge Commission.
