Ed Easton was elected to the Goleta City Council in 2008. Prior to that, he served as member of the Goleta Planning Commission, the Design Review Board, and the City of Goleta Old Town Project Advisory Committee.
Councilmember Easton serves on the following City committees: The Economic Development and Revitalization Committee, the Green Issues Committee, the Town and Gown Committee, the City Hall Needs Committee, and the Goleta West Sanitary District Detachment Committee. Easton is also on the following regional committees: The Goleta Valley Community Center Board, the Air Pollution Control District Board, the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, and the Santa Barbara Airport Commission.
Originally from the East Coast, Easton earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master's Degree in Architecture from Yale University. He worked on redevelopment projects for the City of New Haven, Connecticut, and subsequently was licensed as an architect in Charlotte, North Carolina. Shortly thereafter he served as Director of Housing and Physical Planning in Charlotte's Model Cities Urban Renewal Program.
Easton has held leadership positions in the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation, is a board member of the Gaviota Coast Conservancy, and Founded the Friends of Coal Oil Point Reserve and the Institute for Conservation Leadership.
He and his wife Carolyn (“Ky”) retired to California in 2000, and live in a 1913 California bungalow in Old Town.