Pete McHugh
VTA Alternate Board Member

Santa Clara County Supervisor Pete McHugh serves the VTA Board of Directors as an alternate member representing Group 5 (County of Santa Clara), having done so since 2005.  He also serves as a member of the Policy Advisory Committee at VTA and has since 2005.  He previously served as a VTA Board Member in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2004.

Mr. McHugh serves on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.  Elected first in 1996 then again in 2000 and 2004, he represents Supervisorial District 3 (Alviso, Milpitas, Evergreen, the northern portion of Sunnyvale,  northern portion of San José and portions of East San José).

Prior to joining the Board of Supervisors, he served for twenty years on the Milpitas City Council.  He was first elected to the Milpitas City Council in 1976, and became the first elected mayor of Milpitas in 1978.  He then served as mayor and a city council member until his election to the Board of Supervisors in 1996.

Alternate Member McHugh was born in Boston, Massachusetts where he graduated from Boston Latin High School.  He attended Boston University's College of Business Administration and then moved to Southern California where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles.  After 30 years of employment, he retired from IBM Corporation, having worked in the accounting and software development areas.