Sacramento Municipal Utility District Board of Directors Member Rob Kerth

Rob Kerth is now serving a second term on the SMUD Board of Directors after being elected in 2014. Kerth previously ran successfully for the SMUD Board in November 2008 and served a four-year term. He represents Ward 5, which includes midtown, downtown, North Sacramento, Natomas, Rio Linda, and Elverta. Kerth is a third-generation Sacramentan and former two-term city councilman who got his start in public service as a neighborhood activist for the Woodlake district of North Sacramento. A graduate of Stanford University, Kerth holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering. He and his family still live in Woodlake, less than three blocks from his childhood home.

While on the Sacramento City Council, his assignments included the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Sacramento Regional Transit District, and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency. He developed notable expertise on infrastructure issues throughout the six-county Sacramento region. Kerth founded Ice Unlimited, which brought Sacramento and Folsom their original holiday ice rinks. He is also responsible for the design of ice rinks in Sacramento's Arco Arena and at Squaw Valley U.S.A.