The Retirement Board of the AC Transit Employees’ Retirement Plan consists of five members. The President and Treasurer/Secretary of ATU Local 192, one non-represented AC Transit employee, and two members of the public. Current members of the Retirement Board are listed below.
Jeffrey Lewis is a partner at the law firm of Keller Rohrback L.L.P. He has specialized in employee benefit law, including pension and retirement plan law, since 1975. He has served since 2003 as a member of the Retirement Board of the Retirement Plan and presently serves as its Chair. Since 2008, he has served on the Plan Committee (board of trustees) of a trust fund providing medical and prescription drug benefits to more than 20,000 retired Goodyear Tire and Rubber employees and their family members.
He also presently serves as a fiduciary with regard to certain aspects of the operations of a group of medical benefit plans. He is also a member of the Advisory Council to the U.S. Secretary of Labor on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, to which he was appointed as a representative of the general public.
For more than 20 years, he served as a Senior Editor of Employee Benefits Law, a publication written by the American Bar Association, and he served as one of the co-chairs of the Board of Senior Editors for the Third and Fourth editions. He served for three years as co-chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA Labor and Employment Section.
He has taught courses in employee benefits law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law from which he graduated in 1975, and at three other Bay Area law schools. Mr. Lewis received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970. From 2011 through 2017, he was named by Super Lawyers as one of the top 100 lawyers (out of approximately 20,000) in Northern California.
Josette Moss is the Financial Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 in Oakland, California.
She began her career at AC Transit in December 2002 working in the Maintenance Department, and also worked in the Transportation, Clerical, and Materials Departments.
Her experience and knowledge of AC Transit as well as her work as Financial Secretary/Treasurer have given her the insight needed to make reasonable and sound decisions for the Retirement Plan.
In her second term as Vice-Chair, she takes her fiduciary responsibility seriously to ensure that the Retirement Plan stays solvent and that decisions on assets in the portfolio and investments are sound.
She continues to give her very best to others and makes sure that her vote always counts.
Chris Andrichak has worked his way through AC Transit, beginning his career with the organization in 2011, where he started in the Capital Planning and Grants Department. He later became manager of the department in 2015, before rising to Director of Management and Budget in 2017.
Most recently, he served as Acting Deputy Chief Financial Officer in July 2020. Chris is a graduate of the 2019 class of the American Public Transit Association Leadership class.
Before AC Transit, he spent five years with MTA New York City Transit in the Capital Budget department. Chris attended Drexel University (B.S. in Electrical Engineering) and Stanford University (M.S. in Electrical Engineering). After several years in software development, he changed career paths and went back to school and obtained an M.S. in Urban Planning with a focus on transportation from Hunter College which started his current route in public transit.
Brad Huss is a Director in the San Francisco office of Trucker Huss, APC, which practices exclusively in the fields of ERISA and employee benefits. Brad concentrates his practice on ERISA litigation, fiduciary responsibility matters, Department of Labor investigations and qualified retirement plans. Brad has spoken numerous times on these topics throughout the country and has testified before the United States Senate Finance Committee concerning retirement security issues. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Bar Association Retirement Fund and a Charter Fellow and a former member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Brad is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, a former chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Section of Tort Trial and Insurance Practice of the American Bar Association and a past President of the San Francisco Chapter of the Western Pension & Benefits Council.
La Trina Meredith is the President/Business Agent of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 in Oakland, California.
She has worked at AC Transit for 27 years and has been committed to union representation throughout.
She was Division 4 Shop Steward for 6 years and ATU 192 Vice-President for 3 years.
She loves what she does. She is committed to making a difference and seeing positive changes.
