Fran Schofield, senior associate at Robert Paul Properties, has been elected to the board of directors of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce. She will be serving her first full term through 2017.

Schofield has an extensive background in land planning and real estate development. Prior to entering real estate sales on Cape Cod, Fran served as project manager with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Office of Coastal Zone Management, assistant director of Massachusetts’ National Trust for Historic Preservation Main Street Program, project manager for Boston-based commercial real estate development firm Dickinson Development Corp. and planner with Daylor Consulting Group, a national engineering and land planning firm.

"I’m honored to join the Chamber’s board…whose collective mission is to enhance the vitality of Cape Cod as a place in which to live, work, play and create," Schofield said in a statement.