Email: bvaitla@cityofdavis.org
Map: City Council District 1
Term Ends: 2026

Bapu was elected to the Davis City Council in November 2022, representing West Davis.

Bapu is currently a lecturer in the Community and Regional Development department at UC Davis, where he teaches courses on public policy. He is also currently an MFA student at UC Davis in the Creative Writing (non-fiction) program. Bapu also works on issues of gender inequality with Data2X, an initiative housed in the United Nations Foundation. He works to develop models of data sovereignty to protect privacy and security while leveraging the power of digital data for social equity and environmental regeneration. 
 
Bapu was born in India and grew up in California. He holds a B.A. in Nature and Culture and a M.S. in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis, as well as a Ph.D. in International Relations/political economy from Tufts University. He has received a Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship, a David L. Boren fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Harvard University, where he studied the impact of climate change on oceanic ecosystems and child undernutrition in coastal communities.
 
Bapu previously served on the City of Davis Social Services Commission and the board of directors of Cool Davis and Davis Opportunity Village.

Email: ldeos@cityofdavis.org
Map: City Council District 2
Term Ends: 2028

Linda was elected to the Davis City Council in November 2024.

Linda Deos is the immediate past Chair of the Yolo County Democratic Central Committee and current executive board member of the Davis Democratic Club. Linda co-chaired the Yolo County Cannabis Tax Citizen’s Oversight Committee and was one of two at-large Yolo County appointees to this Committee. Prior to her election to the Davis City Council for District 2, Linda served on City of Davis Planning Commission and previously served as Chair of the City of Davis Utilities Commission. She is a former executive board member of the Yolo Basin Foundation and a current member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Davis Lodge #169. Linda served as the Food Site Coordinator for the Yolo Food Bank at its Davis location during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Linda is entering her 27^th year as a practicing attorney whose woman-owned firm, Deos Law, PC, focuses on representing consumers in disputes with creditors, banks and other financial institutions. In her practice, she has successfully negotiated several settlements on behalf of her clients totaling over a million dollars. Linda serves as a court-appointed mediator in the Eastern District of California and is past-President of the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum. She also teaches courses to legal professionals on topics related to mortgages and bankruptcy, the interplay between consumer protection laws and bankruptcy, defending debt collection lawsuits in state court as well as how to protect homeowners from foreclosure actions in state and federal court.

In July 2022, Linda was awarded a certificate of completion for the Senior Executives in State and Local Government course from the Executive Education program at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She earned her Juris Doctorate from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in International Policy Studies from Middlebury College, Monterey Institute of International Studies. After obtaining her bachelor’s, Linda was chosen to be a delegate to the United Nations Decade of Women in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to attending college, she was honored to be chosen to be an American Field Service (AFS) student in Istanbul, Turkey.

Email: dneville@cityofdavis.org
Map: City Council District 3
Term Ends: 2028

Donna was first elected to the Davis City Council during a special election in June 2023, and was re-elected in November 2024. 

Donna came to Davis in 1987 to attend law school at King Hall at UC Davis. After law school, she worked for the Office of the Legislative Counsel, where she advised members of the California Legislature and their staff on two key policy areas: environmental protection and K-12 public education. She later served as chief counsel to the California State Auditor, working on performance audits of virtually every aspect of state and local government. At the State Auditor’s Office, Donna played a central role in developing and implementing the Local Government High Risk Program, which detects financial vulnerabilities in California cities and intervenes to prevent the loss of services and financial collapse. She also served on the team that developed the application and selection process for serving on the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. In 2008-2009, Donna was appointed by the former governor to serve as chief counsel to the State Board of Education.

Donna lives in Central Davis with her husband Edwin (Ted) Grosholz, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis. Their adult son graduated from Davis public schools and is now working in software development.

Donna’s contributions to the Davis community include the following:

• Member, City of Davis Planning Commission
• Board President, National Alliance on Mental Illness Yolo County 
• Former chair and member, City of Davis Finance and Budget Commission
• Former chair, Davis Joint Unified School District Measure M Bond Oversight Committee
• Pro bono legal volunteer, Parent Teacher Home Visit Project

Email: gpartida@cityofdavis.org
City Council District 4
Term Ends: 2026

Gloria is a longtime Davis resident and was first elected to the Davis City Council in June 2018, served as Mayor from July 2020 through June 2022, and was re-elected in November 2022.

Gloria earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Davis where she majored in Zoology and worked for 30 years as a Neurobiologist before retiring in 2019. She has a long history of advocacy in the Davis community starting with disability advocacy and participation in many school and community organization boards and is a founder and chair of the Davis Phoenix Coalition which promotes community inclusion. She is currently serving as City Council liaison for the Civic Arts Commission, Human Relations Commission and Police Accountability Commission. She is currently Chair of the Yolo Solano Air Quality Management Board and a member of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council.

In addition to managing a small business with her son with a disability, Gloria is active in raising her grandson.

Awards

• Ruby Award - Davis Soroptimist Club 2019
• Indigo Award - Davis College Democrats 2019
• Pilar Andrade Award - Mexican-American Concilio of Yolo County 2018
• Multicultural Community Council Service Award - Yolo County District Attorney 2017
• Women of the Year Award - Congressman John Garamendi 2016
• City of Davis Brinley Community Service Award - City of Davis 2016
• Sacramento Pride Youth Award - Sacramento LGBT Center 2016
• The Davis Vanguard Civil Rights Award - The Davis Vanguard 2014

Email: jchapman@cityofdavis.org
City Council District 5
Term Ends: 2028

Josh was first elected to the Davis City Council in November 2020, and re-elected in November 2024. Josh served as Mayor during 2024.

Josh Chapman was born and raised in Maine. Chapman earned a Bachelor of Science from New Hampshire College in 2002. Upon graduation he moved to Washington D.C. to join AmeriCorps where he served students in Southeast Washington D.C. eventually becoming the Education Director for the Metropolitan Police Boys & Girls Club. Chapman moved to San Francisco in 2005 to pursue his Master of Education degree, with a focus on equity and social justice, from San Francisco State University. During his time in San Francisco Chapman was a teacher for a non-profit organization that served students with severe mental and emotional disabilities.

In 2010 Chapman moved to South Davis with his wife, Athena, and their two sons Owen and Quentin. As the owner and manager of, Armadillo Music, a family business started by Athena’s father in 1996, Chapman became involved in downtown issues. Chapman served on the Davis Downtown Business Association Board of Directors and was the President of that board for three consecutive years and most recently served on the Downtown Plan Advisory Committee. Chapman also spent part of his time in Davis working for Suicide Prevention Yolo County.

As a father of two school-aged children Chapman volunteers in numerous capacities as a youth sports coach as well as spends volunteer hours at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School.