As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Philkill attended more than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 rezoning applications.
quotes: Answers with the word "former" are not parallel with board member- you would expect "former chair and former board member". Also, more importantly adding former changes the meaning of the sentence. She atteneded (past tense) those meetings and and reviewed those applications as THE chair and/or board member, not as THE "former" chair/board member.