2026-2027 PTBE Trustee Nominations (Proposed Slate)

Gary Greensweig – President, second 3rd year Term (2025-2028)

Gary moved to Montara in 2012 with his wife Barbara Greensweig. They were pleased to find PTBE and have been members of the congregation since that time. They lived previously in Santa Rosa for 33 years, where they raised their family and were members of Congregation Beth Ami. Their three children were in religious school, had B’nai Mitzvahs, and participated in USY youth group, and both Barbara and Gary served on synagogue’s Board of Directors. Their children are now grown and married; they have eight grandchildren. 

Gary is a Family Physician who cared for multigenerational families in Sonoma County, having the privilege of delivering hundreds of babies and caring for adults and children.  Occasionally, he acted as a mohel for members of the community as well as for his own grandchildren! Gary served as the President of a large Medical Group and Chief Medical Officer for the St. Joseph Health System in Sonoma County.  Upon leaving Santa Rosa, Gary joined Dignity Health, and its parent company CommonSpirit Health, serving as National Clinical Leader for clinical practices across 21 states. He leads clinical quality, safety, and the development of clinical standards, and also served as the as the national practice leader for COVID-19 during the pandemic.  Gary now has a small clinical practice with the Sequoia Medical Group.

Through his career, Gary served on several not-for-profit health care boards, in director, trustee, and board chair roles. He actively participated in PTBE’s Covid-19 Task Force, guiding development of health and safety protocols for our community, and is grateful for the opportunity to serve on the PTBE Board.

Scott Hartley – Past President, second 3rd year Term (2025-2027)

Scott was born and raised on the Peninsula and lives in San Mateo with his wife Sharon and two daughters, Ariella and Elana, who both became Bat Mitzvah at Peninsula Temple Beth El. Scott co-chaired the Senior Rabbi Search Committee, the Bonim B’Yachad Design and Construction Committee, and the Development Committee. Scott is a past President of the Peninsula Jewish Community Center and served on the Boards of the Jewish Community Federation and the North Peninsula Jewish Campus. He is a Wexner Fellow, past president of the Rotary Club of Burlingame, and was a long-standing member serving on the Bio-Ethics Committee of Mills-Peninsula Hospital.

Scott is an attorney specializing in estate planning, trust administration, and transactional work. After graduating from Carlmont High School, Scott received his bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley, and his juris doctorate from Hastings College of the Law.

Kathy Battat – At-Large, first 3-year Term (2026-2029)

Laurie joined PTBE with her daughter Marina in 2012, through connections made at Wornick Jewish Day School. From 2016 through 2022, she led PTBE’s Sunday Sandwich Hevre (SSH), making it more environmentally friendly, continuing offsite throughout PTBE’s 2019 remodel, and developing a successful “At Home” approach during the pandemic. She served on the Search Committee for our Assistant Rabbis, the Interim Senior Rabbi Transition Task Force in 2021, and the Leadership Coordinating Council (LCC) since its inception, serving as the LCC Chair from fall 2022-June 2024.

Laurie grew up in Maryland and moved to California to attend UCLA School of Law in 1989. She handles appeals in state and federal courts, and advises clients throughout the U.S. on west-coast appellate litigation. Laurie is the immediate Past President of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and serves as the Contributing Editor for the leading treatise in her field, California Civil Appeals and Writs.