Susan Ford Dorsey heads open space trust board Susan Ford Dorsey heads open space trust board (March 09, 2005)

Susan Ford Dorsey of Woodside is the new chair of the board of directors of the Menlo Park-based Peninsula Open Space Trust, POST president Audrey Rust has announced.

Ms. Dorsey is also the president and co-founder of the Sand Hill Foundation.

A leading figure in Bay Area philanthropy, she serves on the boards of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Peninsula Community Foundation and Phillips Brooks School.

Ms. Dorsey has a degree in cellular biology from the University of California at San Diego and a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Woodside with her husband, Mike Dorsey, and their children.

Ms. Dorsey, whose term as board chair began in January, has been a POST board member since 2000.

Her first husband, the late Tom Ford, was one of POST's founders and early benefactors. A successful Silicon Valley real estate developer, he introduced Ms. Dorsey to the land trust, and, after his death in 1998, she continued her close association with POST.

POST is a nonprofit land trust responsible for saving nearly 55,000 acres as permanent open space.

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