Rachel Farac

Rachel Farac represents District 2 on the Novato City Council, where she was elected in November 2022, and has served as Mayor since the council appointed her to the one-year post on December 16, 2025. Before her election she served two years on the Novato Planning Commission, including as its chair, and was appointed by the Marin County Board of Supervisors to the county Mental Health Board, where she served for more than six years and chaired the board. Farac is Chief Operating Officer of Marin Ridge Builders, a local construction firm, and previously spent nearly five years with Michael Baker International working on FEMA climate-resilience and disaster-recovery contracts. She holds a Master of Public Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. Born and raised in Marin County, she moved to Novato in 2007 and lives there with her husband, Colm, and their two children.