[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 87 (Tuesday, June 18, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E907]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  COMMEMORATING MARTIN J. (MARTY) LOMBARDI FOR HIS OUTSTANDING CIVIC 
                             CONTRIBUTIONS

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                           HON. JARED HUFFMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 18, 2013

  Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise with my colleague Mike Thompson to 
honor Martin James (Marty) Lombardi, an outstanding human being, 
committed youth advocate, consummate civic leader, and a model 
community banker.
  A native of San Francisco, Marty was born of immigrant parents from 
Malaga, Spain, and Luca, Italy. A graduate of St. Mary's College, he 
earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics before moving to the 
northern California town of Ukiah in 1975. Exemplary as the consummate 
small town banker, Marty Lombardi earned the respect of home buyers as 
well as business leaders, small and large. During his tenure at the 
Savings Bank of Mendocino County where he is Senior Vice President, 
Marty has been a forward thinker supporting projects with far reaching 
beneficial effects.
  Marty served as President of the California Independent Bankers and 
the Community Bankers of California and as chair of the Mendocino 
County Workforce Investment Board. He was President of the Ukiah 
Education Foundation and served on the Boards of Directors for the 
Ukiah Valley Medical Center; American Red Cross: Sonoma, Mendocino and 
Lake Counties Chapter; Mendocino County Public Safety Foundation; both 
Ukiah High and Mendocino Community College Mathematics, Engineer, 
Science Achievement (MESA) Board; Mendocino Community College Bond 
Oversight; Mendocino Winegrowers Foundation; United Way: Sonoma, 
Mendocino, Lake and Humboldt Counties Chapter; Tapestry (Foster Care); 
Ukiah Chamber of Commerce; Ukiah-Boys and Girls Club; and Nuestra Casa.
  He has been a visionary who established the Mendocino Agricultural 
Families Scholarship, spearheaded the Ukiah Valley Cultural & 
Recreational Center, and was on the steering committee for Leadership 
Mendocino.
  Marty, who is retiring as a banker, is regarded for his ``kind and 
loving heart'' by his family including his wife Kathleen, their six 
children, and by our extended local community and the hundreds of 
students who benefitted from his counsel.
  The residents of California's Second and Fifth District are better 
off today thanks to the work of Marty Lombardi, and it is appropriate 
that we honor him as an energetic, gregarious, forward thinking and 
optimistic civic leader. He is a mentor to many and a model for all.

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