Stuart D. Levitan is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and long-time local official, has been a mainstay of Madison media and government since 1975. He is the author of Madison: The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Vol. 1, has written extensively for local and national newspapers and magazines, and produces the Madison in the Sixties podcast on WORT-FM. As a downtown Dane County Supervisor in the mid-1980's, he wrote the ordinances establishing the fair housing code, Sensitive Crimes Commission, and newspaper recycling program. Since 1989, he has chaired the Madison Community Development Authority Landmarks Committee, Plan Commission, and several other city and nonprofit boards. A graduate of the UW Law School, he spread labor peace and imposed industrial justice as a mediator-arbitrator for the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission from 1987 to 2015.