Stein Elected President of Airport Commission

The city’s newly constituted Airport Commission elected San Fernando Valley lawyer-developer Ted Stein president and Warren W. Valdry vice president at its first meeting Tuesday.

Stein, who was sitting in the president’s chair when the meeting started, was one of five people appointed to the seven-member board last month by Mayor James K. Hahn. He previously served as the commission’s president under former Mayor Richard Riordan.

Stein ran a fierce campaign against Hahn for city attorney in 1997 but is now a staunch ally of the new mayor. Valdry, president of Valdry’s Investment and Land Development Group, was appointed by Riordan to the commission in July 1993.