Stephen Burke was appointed to the Mill Valley City Council on September 20, 2021. Prior to his appointment Stephen served on Mill Valley’s Parks and Recreation Commission, as well as the 2021 Marin County Civil Grand Jury and as Mill Valley’s representative on the Transportation Authority of Marin Citizen Oversight Committee.

Stephen previously served Mill Valley as a Parks and Recreation Commissioner from 2010-12, a member of the City’s General Plan Advisory Committee in 2012, and on its Traffic Advisory and Congestion Task Force in 2016. He has also been active as a youth basketball coach, both for Mt. Carmel CYO and at Tamalpais High School.

He is a retired entrepreneur, with a focus on mobile software and services, and spent 15 years with the Sony Corporation in Japan and the US in a range of senior management roles. He and his wife Kit Murphy have lived in Mill Valley since 2001, and their sons Evan and Liam are graduates of Old Mill Elementary, Mill Valley Middle School, and Tamalpais High School.