Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 9; Democratic Party

Roger was elected to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in a special election in January 1994, and was subsequently re-elected to three four-year terms in June 1994, June 1998, and March 2002 serving through 2006. He chairs the Sacramento First Five Commission. He also serves on the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency Board, the Sacramento Regional Transit District Board, the Sacramento Regional County Solid Waste Authority Board, the Sacramento Cable Commission, the Sacramento Transportation Authority Board, the Sacramento Air Quality Management District Board, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, the Local Government Commission, the Sacramento Groundwater Authority, the Sacramento County and Cities Board on Homelessness, the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority Board, and various other boards and commissions.

Additionally, Roger serves on the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Board and is chair of the Health and Human Services Committee. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Human Services & Education Steering Committee of the National Association of Counties (NACo), and is a member of the Early Childhood Development Task Force.

Prior to his election to the Board of Supervisors, Roger participated in numerous community organizations. During the 1980's, Roger spent eight years as a member of the Regional Transit Board of Directors and was Chairman of the Board twice. Roger has also served on the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Commission, the County Air Pollution Control Advisory Board, and the North Sacramento Community Plan Citizens Advisory Committee. In addition, Roger served on the board and as President of the American Lung Association of Sacramento, and chaired the Sacramento Transportation Coalition. He is the former President of the Friends of Light Rail and board member of the Sacramento Tree Foundation. Roger currently serves on the steering committee of the Cleaner Air Partnership, the steering committee of Linking Education and Economic Development (LEED), as a board member of KVIE public television station, and as a board member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Mountain Valley Chapter. Roger received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley where he lettered in varsity basketball. Roger's law degree was conferred by U.C.L.A in 1976. He spent seven and a half years, from 1977 to 1984, with the California Department of Consumer Affairs where among other things, he oversaw a statewide project to improve small claims court. From 1984 to the present, Roger has been in private practice and in 1987 helped to form the firm of Kemnitzer, Dickinson, Anderson & Barron emphasizing automobile warranty law and sales misrepresentation cases. Roger has litigated cases up to the California Supreme Court and remains of counsel to the firm.

A recipient of a number of awards, Roger has been recognized as Environmentalist of the Year in 1982, received the Clean Air Award in 1991, 1997, and 2003, the Outstanding Performance Award from the Air Force Association in 1995, the Affordable Housing Leadership Award in 1998, the Outstanding Community Leader Award from the Antelope-Highlands Chamber of Commerce in 1999, the "Give `em Hell, Harry" award of the Harry S. Truman Democratic Club in 1999, and the Golden Heart Award from the Association for Enforcement of Child Support in 1999. In 2002, Roger became only the third recipient of the Elizabeth Prebich Award for Distinguished Leadership in County Human Services from the National Association of Counties.

Roger lives with his wife, Marj, in the Woodlake neighborhood where they have owned a home in the neighborhood for more than 20 years. Marj is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Government and Community Relations for the University of California at Davis.