2023 Volunteer Expo

Porter J. Goss served as the 19th and last Director of Central Intelligence from September 24, 2004, until April 21, 2005. At that time, he became the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under the newly signed Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. He continued as D/CIA until May 26, 2006.

Previously, Mr. Goss served as the Congressman from Southwest Florida for almost 16 years. He was Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 until his nomination as DCI in August 2004. He served for almost a decade as a member of the committee, which oversees the intelligence community and authorizes its annual budget. During the 107th Congress, Mr. Goss co-chaired the joint congressional inquiry into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was the second Director of Central Intelligence to have served in Congress.

In addition to Intelligence, Mr. Goss' Congressional career focused on the environment, House ethics, senior issues, health care reform and the Rules Committee. He was a leader on Everglade's legislation and takes great pride in the passage of the Ricky Ray Bill which offered relief to victims who contracted HIV through a contaminated blood supply. Mr. Goss was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in 2006.

Mr. Goss was a U.S. Army Intelligence officer from 1960 to 1962. He served as a clandestine service officer with the Central Intelligence Agency from 1962 until 1972, when a serious illness forced his retirement. While at the CIA, he completed assignments in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

After leaving the CIA, Mr. Goss and his family settled in Sanibel, Florida, where he was a small business owner and co-founder of a local newspaper. He was an active leader in the incorporation of the City of Sanibel in 1974 and was elected its first Mayor. From 1983 until 1988, Mr. Goss was a member of the Lee County (Florida) Commission, serving as its chairman in 1985 and 1986.

Mr. Goss holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in classical Greek from Yale University, graduating with high honors. He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on November 26, 1938. He and his wife, Mariel, have four children and 12 grandchildren.

Chauncey Goss grew up on Sanibel in the 1970’s and ‘80’s. He received a BA from Rollins College and a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University. He began his professional career as the Executive Director of the nonprofit Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association in Boca Grande and then moved to Washington, DC and became an expert in the federal budget process working at both the White House’s Office of Management and Budget and as Deputy Staff Director for the House Budget Committee. He is currently managing partner of a firm he founded that provides budget forecasting and federal fiscal policy analysis.

He served one term as an elected Councilman for the City of Sanibel from 2015-2019 and was appointed to the Governing Board of the South Florida Water Management District by Governor DeSantis in 2019. He was chosen to Chair the Board by his colleagues. He rejoined the City Council briefly in November 2020 when he was appointed to fill a five-month vacancy.

He is married to Allison and they have three grown sons. Goss is involved in his community and is a member of the Sanibel Captiva Kiwanis as well as the Sanibel Community Church. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Canterbury School where he has served as Board Chair as well as the Board of Directors of Captains for Clean Water where he is Treasurer, the United Way, and the Community Foundation of Southwest Florida. He has been a board member of the Sanibel Community Association, the Ding Darling Wildlife Society, the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, and the Lee Coast MOAA Foundation.

David A. Mintz was a founding member of the law firm Weissman & Mintz LLC located in New York and New Jersey.

Mr. Mintz has represented clients in negotiations and arbitrations, before administrative agencies, and in state and federal litigation. He prevailed in one of this largest arbitration awards and represented clients in employment discrimination and ERISA cases securing million-dollar settlements, and successfully litigated before the NCAA. Mr. Mintz received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, a

Degree from the London School of Economics, a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and is currently retired. He now provides counsel to the firm and other clients on a pro bono basis only.

After purchasing a home on Captiva in 2009, Mr. Mintz began attending meetings of the Captiva Community Panel, became a member of the Panel in 2015, and was the Panel President or Vice President for six of the past seven years. He has worked with Lee County on amendments to the Captiva Plan, the Captiva Land Development Code, various Captiva-specific ordinances, and a number of Captiva infrastructure projects. Mr. Mintz is also a member of the Wastewater Committee, its Storm Water Management Committee, and is Chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee working with Lee County on Captiva Community Panel priorities.

Mr. Mintz is also the Vice President of the Captiva Beach Homeowners Association the Association of 59 properties in Village. In New Jersey, he is the past President of a lake association of 250 homes responsible for all aspects of the lake community including water quality. In New Jersey, Mr. Mintz has helped raise more than $12 million in public and private funding to preserve in their undeveloped state at least six tracts of environmentally sensitive lands in the vicinity of the Appalachian Trail. The largest purchase consisted of 852 acres an area slightly larger than Central Park in New York City.