my name is rodman martin. a little bit about myself. i'm thankful to participate in this and considering me. i've lived in san francisco now for about four years. i grew up in the bay area, went to cal poly for undergrad and to santa clara law school. i've now been practicing workers' compensation for five years. we represent the injured worker. they get hurt, they're having difficulty obtaining benefits, we get a court hearing to solve that. i [speaker not understood] san francisco and oakland. i volunteer at the asian law caucus on columbus and jackson and member of the san francisco bar and bar of oakland. i've been wanting to get involved in participating in local government for sometime. i think it would be rewarding and i think a lot of people who come up here, my practical skills as a lawyer might [speaker not understood] in a good way on this task force. [speaker not understood] i meet with individual clients, individual people who feel a grieved, who feel like no one is listening to them, who feel like people aren't giving them

rodman martin for seat 7. and samuel mccormick seat 11. and all those are really took into consideration not only your application and your testimony today, but also all the background information, some experiences as well. so, with that, i'm happy to see what my colleague would like to say as well. >> similarly, the remark of having a diverse group of people is high on my agenda and it' been high on every committee, tac, commission and so forth, that we've been able to appoint. ~ it's we bring this up all the time. i'm also looking at the, if this is the correct record, of who missed meetings and so forth. it looks like at least for a while, there's always been a quorum so i'm not sure what people are saying. on this sheet, started 6-12, 6-6-12, there's never been more than looks like two people that were absent from the meeting. there are some overlaps in regards to the people you named. for seat 6 i would also reappoint david pilpel. seat 8, todd david. seat 10 louise fischer. on my -- people that i felt comfortable with would be for se