Governor Palin appointed Lynn Chrystal to the Local Boundary Commission as the member from the Third Judicial District, effective March 27, 2007.  Mr. Chrystal is a former Mayor and member of the City Council of the City of Valdez.  He has lived in Valdez for the past 32 years.  Mr. Chrystal retired in 2002 from the federal government after 4 years in the Air Force and 36 years with the National Weather Service.  He has worked in Tin City, Barrow, Yakutat, and Valdez.  He has served on the boards of several civic groups and other organizations including the Resource Development Council, Pioneers of Alaska, and Copper Valley Electric Cooperative.  Commissioner Chrystal is retired, but teaches on a substitute basis at Valdez schools.  His current term on the LBC ends January 31, 2012.

Lavell Wilson, a resident of Tok, serves from the Fourth Judicial District.  Governor Palin appointed him to the Commission on June 4, 2007.  Commissioner Wilson is a former member of the State House of Representatives, serving the area outside of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the Eighth State Legislature. He moved to Alaska in 1949 and has lived in the Northway/Tok area since that time.  Commissioner Wilson attended college at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Brigham Young University.  Commissioner Wilson worked as a licensed aircraft mechanic, commercial pilot, and flight instructor for 40 Mile Air from 1981- 1995, retiring as the company’s chief pilot and office manager.  Mr. Wilson became a licensed big game guide in 1963.  He has also worked as a surveyor, teamster, and construction laborer, retiring from the Operating Engineer’s Local 302 in Fairbanks.  As a member of Local 302, he worked for 12 years on the U.S. Air Force’s White Alice system, the ballistic missile defense site at Clear, and the radar site at Cape Newenham.   He has also taught a course at the University of Alaska for the past few years on the history of the Upper Tanana Valley.  His current term on the LBC ends January 31, 2010.