Recommended by: Westchester County Executive Date Appointed: June 7, 2011 Term Expires: June 30, 2015 Board Committees: Member: Audit, Metro-North and LIRR Jonathan A. Ballan is a member of the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., where he heads the firm's New York Public Finance practice group. His law practice involves municipal finance, public authority finance, economic development, project finance and privatization. He has broad experience developing innovative legal structures for financings for numerous state and local governments. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Ballan has served for many years in a number of significant governmental positions, including chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York, chairman of the New York State Public Asset Fund, and board member and chairman of the capital committee of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Mr. Ballan earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College, and his J.D. from George Washington University National Law Center. He lives in Scarsdale, N.Y., with his wife and four children.