Community Service Award The Spirit of Stonewall Community Service Award
The Community Service Award recognizes individuals, a couple or organization within the LGBT community that has made a noticeable and positive impact on the community.
Lisa Middleton Community leader and volunteer, Lisa Middleton,
received the 2015 Spirit of Stonewall Community Service Award. Middleton is a member of the Palm Springs Planning Commission, the chair of the Organized Neighborhoods of Palm Springs (ONE-PS), a member of the LGBT Community Center of the Desert Board of Directors and the Desert Horticulture Society of the Coachella Valley.
In her time on the planning commission she has
advocated for neighborhood/developer cooperation, increased use of solar power, the creative and water wise use of desert landscaping, continued renewal of our downtown, sustainable projects that excel architecturally and economically and the elimination of abandoned buildings and blighted vacant lots.
In her time with ONE-PS, Lisa has worked to improve
cooperation and understanding between neighborhoods, the city, and other civic organizations. ONE-PS has taken the lead in a number of neighborhood issues such as street repairs, vacation rental compliance, pedestrian, cyclist and traffic safety and the growth of ONE-PS to include every community within Palm Springs.
Lisa Middleton retired in December 2010 after 36 years with the State Compensation Insurance Fund of the State of California. She held a number of management and executive assignments with the State Fund in San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Francisco.
Lisa chaired the Claims Committee of the California Workers Compensation Institute where she was
twice recognized for her leadership in the workers’ compensation system. She was also a member of the Department of Insurance Fraud Assessment Commission and in 2010 chaired the Commission.
Lisa Middleton first joined the LGBT Center of the Desert Board of Directors in early 2013. In January 2014, she stepped in as the organization’s interim executive director before returning to the board in June 2014. Previously she served on the board of directors for Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services in San Francisco, the Lambda LGBT Alumni Association of the University of Southern California, the LGBT Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and the Pastoral Council of Most Holy Redeemer Church in the Castro.
After 13 years together, Lisa and Cheryl were married in July 2013. Lisa is transgender having completed a change in gender roles in the mid-1990s. She has two children by a prior marriage. John teaches high school in Ventura County and Lauren teaches middle school in Inglewood.
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