Friday, 19 July 2013 11:09

Wickerham and Hoffman Elected to Saratoga Bridges Board

By Staff Report | Business

SARATOGA COUNTY — David Wickerham was elected as Saratoga Bridges new president and Rev. Richard Hoffman as a member to their Board of Directors. 

Wickerham was the Saratoga County Administrator from 1984 until he retired in 2011. Having been the youngest County Administrator in the State at his appointment, he became one of the most senior County Administrators during his tenure. David first became involved in county government since 1977 and was appointed as the county’s first personnel director in 1979. He was a member of the Resolutions Committee for the NYS Association of Counties from 1995 to 2011 and former vice chair of the New York State Association of County Administrators. David is a 1969 graduate of St. Louis University and served for more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and the Air Force Reserve where upon he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1992. 

David’s former volunteer endeavors included serving on the Board of Directors of the Saratoga Economic Development Corporation, being a member of the Concerned Citizens for Saratoga Racing and the Saratoga Race Course Local Advisory Board. He is a former Board Member of the Wilton Wildlife and Nature Preserve, Capital District Regional Planning Commission, Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Saratoga, Saratoga Springs Zoning Board of Appeals, 1983 Saratoga Springs Charter Revision Commission, Saratoga Girls Biddy Basketball Recreation Program and Secretary of the Saratoga Springs Jaycees. David, a long-time resident of Saratoga County, lives in the Town of Wilton with his wife Elizabeth and is the father of a son and daughter.

Since 1996, Rev. Richard E. Hoffman has been the Director of Pastoral Care Services at Saratoga Hospital and the Saratoga Hospital Nursing Home. He was ordained in 1982 and has been a member of the Albany Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1997. Chaplain Hoffman has been in healthcare ministry since 1991, serving previously at Athens Regional Medical Center in Athens, Georgia and Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Prior to then, Chaplain Hoffman pastured two churches. He earned a Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a Board Certified Chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains and has served as its’ New York State representative. Chaplain Hoffman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and spent his youth in Bogota, Colombia, Toledo, Ohio and Waterloo, Belgium. He and his wife Robin live in Saratoga County. 

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