LaFrance asks Assembly to confirm Leslie Vines for another Women's Commission term

Mayor Suzanne LaFrance has reappointed Leslie Vines to Seat 9 on the Municipal Women's Commission and is asking the Anchorage Assembly to confirm her Tuesday, Nov. 17, according to the mayor's memorandum. The new term would run through Oct. 14, 2029.

The nine-seat commission advises the mayor and Assembly on the status of women in Anchorage. Under city code, it gathers and shares information and research on women's status, sets local priorities, recommends legislative and administrative action, encourages leadership and links local women with the state women's commission, according to a 2022 municipal sunset audit. The mayor appoints members, and the Assembly confirms them to three-year terms. The commission's web page lists six commissioners.

In August, the commission was building a survey to ask women citywide what issues it should take on.

Vines was reappointed in 2023 for a term that expired Oct. 14, 2026, according to that year's memorandum.

Since October 2019, Vines has worked as a statewide program coordinator for the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, her resume says. She leads the state's WIOA Youth programs and directs its At-Risk Youth Initiative, which works across three state departments. She earlier directed program services at Easterseals Alaska, overseeing 300 part-time caregivers. From 2001 to 2018 she was employment and training director at Nine Star Enterprises, where she led what her resume calls Alaska's largest Welfare-to-Work case management program. She holds a master's degree in management from Wayland Baptist University.