Sue Noack was elected to the Pleasant Hill City Council in 2014. She was Mayor in 2016 and 2021 and and is currently serving in her third term as Vice Mayor. Sue’s responsibilities in her City Council role include, Budget Committee, Library Subcommittee, General Plan Advisory Committee. Sue sits on the board of the Central Contra Costa Transit Authority (County Connection), Transpac (central Contra Costa County’s regional transportation planning committee) and represents Transpac on The Contra Costa Transportation Authority. She was also appointed to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission representing the Mayors of Contra Costa County.

Sue graduated from Bucknell University in 1981 with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration. Following her interest in business and finance she went into banking. She worked for several banking institutions and simultaneously earned her MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.

In 1995, she moved to the Bay Area, and worked as a Vice President for Bank of America Leasing. She moved to GATX in 2000, where she became the Chief Risk Officer and then the Senior Vice President of Air Operations.

Shortly after moving to the Bay Area, she met her husband Charlie. They moved to Pleasant Hill in 1998 and their son Will was born in 2001. He is currently is a senior at University of Nevada, Reno as a Mechanical Engineering major.

Sue chose to leave the corporate world in 2007. Since then she co-founded the Foundation for Pleasant Hill Education (where she has been the President, Treasurer, Grant Chair, and organizer of the Amazing Race), served as the President of Strandwood Elementary PTA and Pleasant Hill Middle School PTSA, chaired the 2010 Measure C Bond Oversight Committee, served on Pleasant Hill Rotary, and coached numerous baseball and soccer teams for her son and his classmates.