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B I O G R A P H I E S O F T H E B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S (C O N T I N U E D)
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke was nominated by President Barack Obama as a Director of the Amtrak Board and
was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in January 2013. Ms. Burke is from Los Angeles, Calif., and is currently a
member of the California Transportation Commission. She served as a Los Angeles County Supervisor
representing the 2nd District (1992-2008) and served as the Chair three times (1993-94, 1997-98, 2002-03). On
December 1, 2008, she retired from the Board of Supervisors. Ms. Burke also served for 16 years on the Los
Angeles Metro Board of Directors, serving as Chair for one term. In 1973, she was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives. Ms. Burke was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress.
During her tenure in Congress, she served on the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the House
Committee on Appropriations; during her tenure on the Appropriations Committee, she introduced an
amendment to the Alaskan Pipeline legislation to establish a new precedent that provided for a set aside for
minority and women businesses to participate in federal contracts. In 1973, with the birth of her daughter
Autumn, Ms. Burke became the first Congresswoman to give birth while in office and the first to be granted
maternity leave by the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. She did not seek re-election to
Congress in 1978 but instead ran for Attorney General of California. She won the Democratic nomination over
Los Angeles City Attorney Burt Pines but was defeated in the general election by Republican State Senator
George Deukmejian. Ms. Burke attended the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Califor-
nia at Los Angeles, where she received a Bachelor’s degree. She also received a Juris Doctor from the University
of Southern California Law School.
Christopher Beall
Christopher Beall was nominated by President Barack Obama as a Director of the Amtrak Board and confirmed
by the U.S. Senate in January 2013. Mr. Beall is a Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager of Oaktree’s
Infrastructure Investing strategy. He has over 16 years of experience in direct investments, investment banking,
and finance. Mr. Beall served as a key investment professional for Highstar Capital for 10 years prior to joining
Oaktree in 2014 and continues to serve as a Partner of Highstar Capital for certain legacy funds not managed by
Oaktree. Prior to joining Highstar in 2004, he worked in the Global Natural Resources Group at Lehman
Brothers, Inc., and in operations and engineering at Koch Pipeline Company, a natural gas transmission pipeline
owned by Koch Industries, Inc. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Northstar Transloading, Star
Atlantic, the Ports America Companies, and Wespac Midstream. Mr. Beall received a Bachelor of Science in
Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and an Master of Business Administration from
Harvard Business School.