Sandra L. Vargas
President and CEO
Biographical Profile

Sandra L Vargas was named President & CEO of The Minneapolis Foundation in January 2007, effective April 1, 2007. She was formerly Hennepin County administrator, which is the top executive position in Hennepin County government. Hennepin County  has the largest population of any county in Minnesota. She began her career as a small-business consultant in the Minnesota Department of Economic Development, and held management positions at the City of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Transportation before becoming deputy county administrator at Hennepin in 1997. She was named county administrator in 1999.

Vargas graduated from the College of St. Catherine and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is active in several Twin Cities organizations and serves on the boards of the Guthrie Theater, Greater Twin Cities United Way, the Metropolitan State University Foundation, the Northwest Area Foundation, and Twin Cities RISE.

posted 04/07