Ann Moller Caen is President of the Commission.  She is also the President of her own company, Moller & Associates, a consulting firm. She also serves on the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony, the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Board of Trustees of Golden Gate University, as well as the UCSF Foundation. She has served on Boards of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fisherman's Wharf Merchant's Association. Caen was also a Director of Pier 39, Siwel, Inc, and Sico Inc. Additionally, she was President of the Nob Hill Capital and Publisher of the San Francisco Visitor News. She is also involved with the Audubon Canyon Ranch, the International Hospitality Center, KQED, the California Pacific Medical Center, the San Francisco Junior League, and the Northern California Cancer Center.

Commissioner Caen holds a BS in Biology and Education and an MBA in Finance. She is the widow of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Herb Caen. She was first appointed by Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. in March 1997, and reappointed for a second term in November 2001.  Mayor Gavin Newsom reappointed her to a third term in January 2005.  She served as President of the Commission from July 1998 to January 2000; September 2001 until January 2003; and January 2008 until the present.  Her term will expire in August 2012.

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Francis X. Crowley is Vice President of the Commission. He has over 20 years of experience in the theatrical and motion picture industry. Mr. Crowley is the Business Manager/Secretary for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, Local 16 in San Francisco. He represents 1,500 theatrical, stage, film and convention technicians in San Francisco, the North Bay and Peninsula.

Commissioner Crowley has also served as President and Assistant Business Agent for Local 16 as well as Chairman of the IATSE District 2 Resolutions Committee. He is a member of the San Francisco Labor Council Executive Committee, a Trustee for the San Francisco Maritime Trades Council, a Member of the Hotel Council of San Francisco and the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, and sits on the Treasure Island Citizens Advisory Board. He is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, where he earned his BA in Radio/Television Broadcast. Commissioner Crowley was appointed to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission by Mayor Newsom on February 22, 2008.

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Francesca Vietor served as President of the City’s Commission on the Environment from 1997 to 1999 and as Director of the Department of the Environment from 1999 to 2001. In 2003, she co-founded 1000 Flowers, a non-partisan non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to registering and mobilizing women to vote across the country. She has worked for many nonprofit organizations, including Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, Island Press, and CARE Madagascar.

She currently runs an environmental consulting firm, Ecoworks, with current contracts at Commonweal, an environmental health nonprofit in Marin County, and the Green Schools Initiative, a Berkeley-based NGO bringing environmental practices to schools in the state. She serves on several boards, including Friends of the San Francisco Public Library (spearheading the greening of the library initiative), the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, Slide Ranch, and Bioneers. She is also pursuing a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts while she raises her three-year-old daughter with her husband, writer Mark Hertsgaard.

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Juliet Ellis is Executive Director of Urban Habitat (UH), a regional social and environmental justice organization. Urban Habitat works in partnership with low-income communities and communities of color to advance social, economic, and environmental justice in the Bay Area region. Through advocacy and the promotion of equitable policies, leadership development, research, and participation in strategic coalitions, Urban Habitat helps to build a democratic society in which all communities have the power to influence and benefit from the decisions impacting their neighborhoods. Prior to becoming Executive Director for UH, Juliet was the Associate Program Officer for Neighborhood and Community Development at The San Francisco Foundation. She was responsible for all aspects of grantmaking in the areas of workforce development, housing, homelessness, economic development, community development, and neighborhood planning.

Juliet has served on numerous regional and local boards and committees, including the Oakland Homeless and Low-Income Taskforce, the San Francisco Asset Building Initiative, the Alameda Continuum of Care Council, the Alameda County Public Health Disparities Taskforce, the Community Capital Investment Initiative, Girls After School Academy, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and the San Francisco School of Volunteers. She currently serves on the Board and Steering Committee of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, the David Brower Center, the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, and the Partnership for Working Families.