Fred Keeley retired in January 2015 after 10 years as the Treasurer of Santa Cruz County.
19 Facts About Fred Keeley
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Fred Keeley is the second son of Harry and Elizabeth Keeley.
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Fred Keeley attended and graduated from Cupertino High School in 1969.
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Fred Keeley attended DeAnza College in the early 1970s and took film classes from Professor Robert Scott.
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In 1974, Fred Keeley graduated with honors from San Jose State University, School of Social Sciences.
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Fred Keeley served in that capacity until March 1984 when then-Assembly Member Sam Farr hired Fred Keeley to be his chief of staff.
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Fred Keeley served for eight years as a member of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, prior to his election to the California Assembly.
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In March 1996, Fred Keeley ran for the Democratic nomination for the 27th Assembly District against Karin Kauffman.
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Also in 1998, Fred Keeley was selected by Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa to be Speaker pro Tempore.
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Fred Keeley believed that the model was seriously flawed because it assumed that electricity could be treated as a commodity.
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Fred Keeley declined, and instead became Executive Director of the Planning and Conservation League and the PCL Foundation.
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Fred Keeley made a planned gift of $250,000 to UCSC to support the campus's STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research.
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Since Fall 2006, Fred Keeley has taught courses as a part-time faculty member in the Department of Political Science at San Jose State University.
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Fred Keeley has taught State Politics and Legislative Politics, and was scheduled to teach Local Politics in Fall 2007.
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Fred Keeley is a frequent lecturer on California state government, politics, and a variety of environmental topics at Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, Duke University, San Jose State University, California State University at Monterey Bay, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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In January 2005, Fred Keeley returned to Santa Cruz and became Santa Cruz County Treasurer.
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On June 6,2006, Fred Keeley was elected to a four-year term as treasurer.
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Fred Keeley serves on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood Advocates for California and Nevada and is the current board vice president of Sempervirens Fund, originally established in 1900 as Sempervirens Club, California's oldest land conservation organization.
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Fred Keeley is co-chair of the Voices of Reform Project of the Commonwealth Club of California.