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SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Frank Altamura Jr., 32, of Vacaville, has been appointed to the California Contractors State License Board. Altamura has been product owner at Trane since 2012. He was product...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Susan Anderson, 66, of Fresno, has been reappointed to the California Apprenticeship Council, where she has served since 2013. Anderson served in several positions for the County of...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. swore in Justice Joshua Groban to the California Supreme Court today in Sacramento, at a ceremony joined by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and other judicial and state officials. "I see the great work of the Court, of...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 12 California superior court judges, which include: Two in Alameda County; one in Contra Costa County; one in Fresno County; five in Los Angeles County; one in San Francisco County; one in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: George Famalett, 55, of Fremont, has been reappointed to the California Board of Accountancy, where he has served since 2015. Famalett has been a tax partner at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Thomas Browning, 62, of North San Juan, has been reappointed to the 17th District Agricultural Association, Nevada County Fair Board of Directors, where he has served since 2006....

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Claire Crenshaw, 29, of Alturas, has been reappointed to the 34th District Agricultural Association, Modoc District Fair Board of Directors, where she has served since 2017. Crenshaw...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Nicole Hollingsworth, 32, of Marina, has been appointed to the 7th District Agricultural Association, Monterey County Fair Board of Directors. Hollingsworth has been district...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Michael K. Ong, 46, of Santa Monica, has been reappointed to the Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee, where he has served since 2007. Ong has been a professor in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Tony Hobson, 51, of Paradise, has been appointed to the Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health. Hobson has been director of behavioral health at the Plumas County...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Carel Mountain, 59, of Fair Oaks, has been appointed to the California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians. Mountain has been director of nursing at Sacramento...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of six California superior court judges, which include: One in Alameda County; one in Napa County; one in Orange County; one in Sonoma County; and two in Yolo County. Alameda County Superior...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Joseph R. Landolph, 70, of Altadena, has been reappointed to the Carcinogen Identification Committee, where he has served since 1993. Landolph has been a member of the University of...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of six California superior court judges, which include: One in Alameda County; two in Los Angeles County; two in Riverside County; and one in Sacramento County. Alameda County Superior Court...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Laurence Baskin, 59, of San Francisco, has been reappointed to the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee, where he has served since 2012. Baskin has been...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 13 California superior court judges, which include: one in Alameda County; one in Contra Costa County; three in Los Angeles County; one in Riverside County; two in Sacramento County; three in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Heidi Steinecker, 41, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of the Center for Health Care Quality at the California Department of Public Health. Steinecker has been...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 12 California superior court judges, which include: One in Kern County; Seven in Los Angeles County; One in Napa County; One in Orange County; One in Sacramento County; and one in Sutter...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gordon B. Burns as associate justice, Division Five of the First District Court of Appeal and Brian S. Currey as associate justice, Division Four, Laurence D. Rubin as presiding justice,...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jane Gray, 45, of Santa Barbara, has been reappointed to the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, where she has served since 2015. Gray has been a senior project...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Ioana Petrou as associate justice, Division Three and Judge Tracie L. Brown as associate justice, Division Four of the First District Court of Appeal. First District Court of Appeal    ...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Craig Carter, 55, of Carlsbad, has been reappointed to the State 9-1-1 Advisory Board, where he has served since 2016. Carter has been police chief at the Escondido Police Department...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: George Jaime, 63, of Bakersfield, has been appointed warden at California City Correctional Facility, where he has been acting warden since 2018. Jaime held multiple positions at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced Joshua Groban as his choice for associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Joshua Groban, 45, of Los Angeles, has served as a senior advisor to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. since 2011. “Josh Groban has...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Bradley Cimino, 38, of Sacramento, has been appointed to the California Acupuncture Board. Cimino has been owner of the ProActive Acupuncture Center for Asian Healing Arts since...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Marybel Batjer, 63, of Sacramento, has been appointed chair of the California Complete Count Census Committee. Batjer has served as secretary of the California Government Operations...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G.Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 6 California superior court judges, which include: One in Alameda County; three in Los Angeles County; one in Orange County; and one in San Bernardino County. Alameda County Superior Court    ...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 11 California superior court judges, which include: One in Contra Costa County; one in Imperial County; one in Kings County; two in Los Angeles County; one in Orange County; one in San Diego...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gabriel P. Sanchez as associate justice, Division One, Carin T. Fujisaki as associate justice, Division Three and Justice Stuart R. Pollak as presiding justice, Division Four of the First...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Francesc R. Martí, 34, of Brooklyn, New York, has been appointed director of legislation at the California Housing Finance Agency. Martí has been assistant commissioner of government...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Andrew Mills, 61, of Capitola, has been appointed to the Board of State and Community Corrections. Mills has served as chief of police at the Santa Cruz Police Department since 2017....

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Dianne Harrison, 67, of Los Angeles, has been reappointed to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, where she has served since 2011. Harrison has been president at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Christina Bradbury, 45, of Meadow Vista, has been appointed to the California Veterinary Medical Board. Bradbury has been an internist and senior veterinary associate at Vista...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 33 California superior court judges, which include: two in El Dorado County; two in Fresno County; one in Glenn County; fifteen in Los Angeles County; two in Merced County; three in Riverside...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jason Haider, 30, of San Diego, has been appointed to the California Workforce Development Board. Haider has been founder and chief executive officer at Xenco Medical since 2011. He...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Yvette Roland, 67, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the State Bar Court. Roland was a partner at Duane Morris LLP from 2006 to 2014 and at Hancock, Rothert and Bunshoft LLP from...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Charity Dean, 40, of Santa Barbara, has been appointed assistant director at the California Department of Public Health. Dean has been public health officer at the Santa Barbara...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Gayle Miller, 43, of Sacramento, has been appointed senior policy advisor to the director at the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Miller has been deputy...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Inez de Ocio, 38, of Visalia, has been reappointed to the California State Rehabilitation Council, where she has served since 2015. De Ocio has been a student services counselor at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Oliver Fiehn, 51, of Davis, has been reappointed to the California Scientific Guidance Panel, where he has served since 2013. Fiehn has served in several positions at the University...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Victoria Hassid, 35, of San Francisco, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Industrial Relations, where she has served as deputy director of...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Adria Jenkins-Jones, 53, of Elk Grove, has been appointed chief deputy director of the California Department of Human Resources, where she has served as chief of the Selection...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Todd R. Bland, 56, of Elk Grove, has been appointed assistant director of the Automation, Integrity, and Client Initiatives Branch at the California Department of Social Services,...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: James Robertson, 61, of Crescent City, has been appointed warden of Pelican Bay State Prison, where he has been acting warden since 2017. Robertson served in several positions at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Adam Tauber, 56, of Citrus Heights, has been appointed assistant director of the Division of Recycling at the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle),...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Keely Bosler as Director of the Department of Finance, replacing Michael Cohen, who has served in that role since 2013. “Under Michael’s leadership, California’s finances are sound and we’re...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Alexander Pal, 36, of Carmichael, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where he has been acting chief counsel since 2018 and...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Eric L. Rood, 47, of Yuba City, has been appointed chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards at the California Department of Industrial Relations, where he has been acting...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Tamma Adamek, 53, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of external affairs and media relations for the Complete Count Census. Adamek has been deputy director of...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Hunter Anglea, 58, of Janesville, has been appointed warden at Sierra Conservation Center, Jamestown, where he has been acting warden since 2017 and was chief deputy administrator in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Laphonza Butler, 39, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the University of California Board of Regents. Butler has been president of SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Union since...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Alexander Kim, 45, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Kim has been founder and principal at Three Kings Public Affairs since 2017. He...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Adriana Martinez, 47, of Alhambra, has been appointed deputy director of outreach for the Complete Count Census. Martinez was director of external affairs at AT&T California from...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Darrel Woo, 65, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services at the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Woo has been 1st vice...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Eric Swanson, 46, of Carmichael, has been appointed deputy director of fiscal services at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has been associate...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Edward K. Hadfield, 54, of San Marcos, has been appointed to the State 9-1-1 Advisory Board. Hadfield has been fire chief at the Rincon Fire Department since 2015. He served in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 12 California superior court judges, which include: Two in Los Angeles County; one in Orange County; one in Placer County; two in Riverside County; one in San Bernardino County; one in San...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Alison M. Tucher as associate justice, Division Four of the First District Court of Appeal; Judge Halim Dhanidina as associate justice, Division Three, Justice Nora M. Manella as...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ricardo Sanchez, 52, of Hollister, has been reappointed to the California State Board of Pharmacy, where he has served since 2014. Sanchez has been a state investigator at the...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Claire Tauriainen, 46, of El Dorado Hills, has been appointed general counsel at the California Housing Finance Agency, where she has been an assistant general counsel and single...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kristen Erickson-Donadee, 39, of Folsom, has been appointed deputy director and chief counsel of legal affairs at the California Department of Child Support Services, where she has...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Sabrina D. Ashjian, 39, of Fresno, has been appointed to the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel. Ashjian has been a deputy district attorney at the Fresno County District Attorney's...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jennifer Halferty, 45, of Mammoth Lakes, has been appointed to represent the First District on the Mono County Board of Supervisors. Halferty has been executive director at Mammoth...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Carlie Jackson, 38, of Elk Grove, has been appointed administrative assistant at the California Natural Resources Agency, where she served as an administrative assistant from 2012 to...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 10 California superior court judges, which include: One in Calaveras County; 4 in Los Angeles County; one in Orange County; one in San Francisco County; one in Santa Barbara County; one in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Thomas DeSantos and Judge Mark W. Snauffer as associate justices of the Fifth District Court of Appeal. Fifth District Court of Appeal Thomas DeSantos, 61, of Hanford, has been...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Zahra Billoo, 34, of San Jose, has been appointed to the California Civil Liberties Public Education Grant Program Advisory Panel. Billoo has been director at the San Francisco Bay...

Alice T. Germond, 75, of West Hollywood, has been appointed chairperson of the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Germond has been secretary emeritus of the Democratic National Committee since 2013, where she was elected national secretary from 2002 to...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Terrence O’Brien, 68, of Sacramento, has been appointed senior advisor for forests in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. O’Brien served in several positions at the California...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Brian Kelley, 44, of West Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy of the Offender Investigations and Screening Division at the Board of Parole Hearings, where he has been acting...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Justice Peter J. Siggins as presiding justice, Division Three of the First District Court of Appeal. First District Court of Appeal Peter J. Siggins, 62, of San Rafael, has been appointed...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: David A. Kilgore Jr., 40, of Loma Linda, has been appointed director of the California Department of Child Support Services. Kilgore has been director of the Riverside County...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Dallas Burtraw, 62, of Takoma Park, Maryland, has been appointed to the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee. Burtraw has been Darius Gaskins senior fellow at Resources...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Megan Kirkeby, 34, of Sacramento, has been appointed assistant deputy director of fair housing at the California Department of Housing and Community Development, where she has served...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Gail Ruderman Feuer as associate justice, Division Seven of the Second District Court of Appeal, and Judge Allison M. Danner as associate justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal....

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 21 California superior court judges, which include: Two in Alameda County; one in Humboldt County; one in Inyo County; one in Kern County; 10 in Los Angeles County; one in Riverside County;...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Diana Dooley, 67, of Sacramento, has been appointed Executive Secretary in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.  Dooley has served as Secretary of the California Health and...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Michael Jani, 65, of Santa Cruz, has been appointed to the California State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. Jani has been senior forestry advisor at the Mendocino Redwood...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Hilary D. Lentini, 52, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the California Workforce Development Board. Lentini has been founder and chief executive officer at Lentini Design and...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jeree Glasser-Hedrick, 43, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of business and governmental affairs at the California Housing Finance Agency. Glasser-Hedrick served as a...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Miranda LeKander, 43, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy commissioner of legal at the California Department of Business Oversight, where she has served as assistant chief...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Janette Wipper, 44, of San Francisco, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Wipper has been a regional director at the U.S....

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Frederick J. Just, 60, of Riverside, has been appointed administrator of the Veterans Home of California, Yountville. Just held several positions at Kaiser Permanente from 2005 to...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Larry N. Pangilinan, 54, of Fontana, has been appointed skilled nursing facility administrator at the Veterans Home of California, Barstow. Pangilinan has been executive director at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kevin Fat, 50, of Sacramento, has been reappointed to the California Travel and Tourism Commission, where he has served since 2014. Fat has been chief operating officer at the Fat...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Donald Bransford, 70, of Colusa, has been reappointed to the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, where he has served since 2006. Bransford has been owner and president at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Maral Farsi, 37, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of legislative and inter-governmental affairs at the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Deanne M. Wertin, 52, of Granite Bay, has been appointed deputy agency information officer for the Office of Systems Integration at the California Health and Human Services Agency....

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Alana Golden, 53, of Sacramento, has been appointed assistant director of marketing and communications for the Complete Count Census. Golden has been an information officer III at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Vicky Banaga, 60, of Le Grand, has been reappointed to the 35th District Agricultural Association, Merced County Fair Board of Directors, where she has served since 2015. Banaga has...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Christie Bautista, 40, of Glendale, has been appointed special assistant for program review at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, where she has served as a senior...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Susan Good, 64, of Fresno, has been reappointed to the Dental Hygiene Committee of California, where she has served since 2013. Good has been owner at Susan Good Consulting since...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Susan Fanelli, 55, of Orangevale, has been appointed chief deputy director of policy and programs at the California Department of Public Health, where she has been assistant director...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Daniel Curtin, 69, of Carmichael, has been reappointed to the California Water Commission, where he has served since 2010. Curtin has been director of the California Conference of...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Dan Kalamaras, 51, of Gold River, has been appointed director of the Office of Systems Integration at the California Health and Human Services Agency. Kalamaras has been interim...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Hillary Iserman, 45, of Roseville, has been appointed deputy superintendent of correctional education at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where she has...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Rebecca Eisen, 68, of Oakland, has been reappointed to the California State University Board of Trustees, where she has served since 2012. Eisen was a partner at Morgan Lewis and...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Bertheria Grady, 55, of El Dorado Hills, has been appointed chief deputy director of the California Office of Tax Appeals. Grady has served as director of the filing compliance...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 25 California superior court judges, which include: Three in Alameda County; one in Contra Costa County; one in El Dorado County; one in Humboldt County; seven in Los Angeles County; three in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Helen I. Bendix as associate justice, Division One and Judge Carl H. Moor as associate justice, Division Five of the Second District Court of Appeal, and the appointment of Associate...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Juvilyn Alegre, 47, of Chula Vista, has been reappointed to the California Building Standards Commission, where she has served since 2016. Alegre has served as fire prevention...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Christine Inouye, 52, of Sacramento, has been appointed undersecretary at the California State Transportation Agency, where she has served as deputy secretary for project management...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Shannon McKinley, 38, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy secretary of legislation at the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. McKinley has been...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Brian Annis, 48, of Sacramento, has been appointed secretary of the California State Transportation Agency, where he has served as acting secretary since 2018 and was undersecretary...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jennifer Moffitt, 37, of Davis, has been appointed undersecretary at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, where she has served as deputy secretary since 2015. Moffitt...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Diane Wittenberg, 72, of Pasadena, has been reappointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission, where she has served since 2014. Wittenberg was executive director at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Peter Silva, 65, of Jamul, has been reappointed to the California Fish and Game Commission, where he has served since 2016. Silva has been president and chief executive officer at...

Dorene D’Adamo, 57, of Turlock, has been reappointed to the State Water Resources Control Board, where she has served since 2013. D’Adamo served as senior policy advisor to Congressman Jim Costa in 2013 and to Congressman Dennis Cardoza from 2003 to 2012. She was...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kenneth Spence, 40, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of legislation and policy at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Spence has served as a deputy director...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:   Warren Stanley, 56, of Sacramento, has been appointed commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, where he has served as acting commissioner since 2017. Stanley has served in...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:   Larry Flood, 62, of Washington, D.C., has been appointed director of financing at the California Housing Finance Agency. Flood has been a senior policy advisor at the U.S....

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:   Christina Snider, 30, of Healdsburg, has been appointed Governor’s Tribal Advisor and executive secretary to the Native American Heritage Commission. Governor Brown established the...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Eric Johnson, 52, of Sacramento, has been reappointed to the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, where he has served since 2013. Johnson has...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Melanie Perron, 37, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy secretary for legislation at the California State Transportation Agency. Perron has served as assistant deputy director...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Elaine Howle, 59, of El Dorado Hills, has been reappointed as California State Auditor. Howle has served as California State Auditor since 2000. She held several positions at the...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:   Douglas McCauley, 53, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Housing and Community Development. McCauley has been executive officer...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lila Mirrashidi, 34, of Redondo Beach, has been appointed deputy commissioner of policy at the California Department of Business Oversight, where she has been deputy commissioner of...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Josh Boone, 37, of Woodland, has been appointed zero emission vehicle policy advisor to the chair of the California Air Resources Board, where he has served as an air pollution...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: John Boyd, 48, of Folsom, has been reappointed to the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, where he has served since 2013. Boyd has been chief...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Karla Nemeth, 47, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of the California Department of Water Resources. Nemeth has served as Governor Brown’s deputy secretary and senior...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Elizabeth Perez, 39, of Vista, has been appointed deputy secretary of minority veterans at the California Department of Veterans Affairs. Perez has been president and founder at GC...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ronda Paschal, 55, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy legislative secretary in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Paschal has served as deputy secretary for legislation...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: John Dunn, 49, of Sacramento, has been appointed assistant secretary for apprenticeship and worker training at the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, where he has...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Elaine Yamaguchi, 53, of Woodland, has been appointed executive officer at the California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians. Yamaguchi has been project and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 33 California superior court judges, which include: One in Alameda County; one in Butte County; one in Contra Costa County; one in Humboldt County; one in Kings County; one in Lake County;...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Thomas M. Goethals as associate justice, Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal and Judge Mary J. Greenwood as associate justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal....

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jessica Arden, 35, of Woodland Hills, has been appointed to the California Underground Facilities Safe Excavation Board. Arden has been city engineer for the City of Westlake Village...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Gary K. Johnson, 68, of Porterville, has been reappointed to the Porterville Developmental Center Advisory Board, where he has served since 2016. Johnson has been a part-time...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Bryan Beyer, 44, of Rancho Murieta, has been appointed chief deputy inspector general at the Office of the Inspector General, where he was senior deputy inspector general from 2010...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Poonum Rashmikant Patel, 28, of San Jose, has been appointed senior business development specialist in the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, where she has been...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Mark Ibele, 62, of Davis, has been appointed director of the California Office of Tax Appeals. Ibele has served as staff director of the California State Senate Committee on Budget...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Andrew G. LaMar, 52, of Woodland, has been appointed deputy director of communications at the California Department of Human Resources. LaMar has served as communications director in...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Joseph Wall, 26, of Sacramento, has been appointed special assistant for climate change at the California Natural Resources Agency, where he has served in several positions since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of 34 California superior court judges, which include: One in Alameda County; one in Fresno County; 10 in Los Angeles County; one in Marin County; one in Mendocino County; one in Merced County;...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Associate Justice Elwood G. Lui as presiding justice, Division Two and Judge Anne H. Egerton as associate justice, Division Three of the Second District Court of Appeal, and the appointment...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Julie Henderson, 55, of San Francisco, has been appointed deputy secretary for climate and health policy at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Henderson served as senior...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kimberly Seibel, 52, of Chula Vista, has been appointed warden at the Deuel Vocational Institution, where she has served as acting warden since 2016. Seibel was warden at Chuckawalla...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Danielle Anderson, 31, of Camarillo, has been appointed to the California State Independent Living Council. Anderson has been executive director at the Independent Living Resource...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Shannon Swain, 53, of Danville, has been appointed superintendent at the Office of Correctional Education of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where she...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Mathew Fuzie, 53, of Modesto, has been appointed deputy director of the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division at the California Department of Parks and Recreation, where he...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kevin McGuire, 36, of Los Angeles, has been appointed skilled nursing administrator at the Veterans Home of California, West Los Angeles. McGuire was a skilled nursing facility...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Luz Molina, 40, of National City, has been appointed to the California Board of Accountancy. Molina has been a technical proposal writer at Ajinomoto Althea Inc. since 2011, where...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Luz Molina, 40, of National City, has been appointed to the California Board of Accountancy. Molina has been a technical proposal writer at Ajinomoto Althea Inc. since 2011, where...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Christopher Shultz, 44, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Shultz has been deputy commissioner of community...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Candace Murch, 52, of Elk Grove, has been appointed chief of the Office of Labor Relations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Murch has been a principal...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Karin Caves, 62, of Carmichael, has been appointed deputy director of communications at the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Caves has served as deputy secretary...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Nicholas Oliver, 38, of Carmichael, has been appointed chief of the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation. Oliver has been an...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Suhasini Patel, 56, of El Dorado Hills, has been appointed assistant deputy director of the Site Mitigation and Brownfields Reuse Program at the California Department of Toxic...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Cyd Brandvein, 58, of Irvine, has been reappointed to the California Board of Optometry, where she has served since 2013. Brandvein has been director of enterprise resilience...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Charles Callahan, 56, of Blythe, has been appointed warden at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, where he has been acting warden since 2017 and served as chief deputy warden from 2013...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Suanne Buggy, 45, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director at the California Department of Public Health, Office of Public Affairs. Buggy has been senior vice president at...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lisa Bates, 48, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of the Division of Financial Assistance at the California Department of Housing and Community Development, where she...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Brantley Choate, 54, of Rocklin, has been appointed director of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Paul Van Konynenburg, 50, of Modesto, has been appointed to the California Transportation Commission. Van Konynenburg has been managing partner at Britton Konynenburg Partners since...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Nancy C. Miller, 64, of Sacramento, has been appointed to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors. Miller has been a partner at Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Melanie V. Ramil, 35, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy chief of the Bureau of Cannabis Control at the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Ramil has been deputy state...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Chuck Supple, 58, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of the Division of Juvenile Justice at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Supple has been chair...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ralph Lightstone, 68, of Sacramento, has been appointed senior advisor for policy and legislation at the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, where he has served as...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Robert Barton, 55, of Rancho Cordova, has been appointed to the Board of Parole Hearings. Barton has served as Inspector General of the California Department of Corrections and...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lisa Lien-Mager, 51, of Davis, has been appointed deputy secretary for communications at the California Natural Resources Agency. Lien-Mager has been director of communications at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Heather Sanders, 46, of Folsom, has been appointed special advisor at the California Public Utilities Commission. Sanders has been principal manager of integrated grid strategy and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Arsenio Mataka, 40, of Sacramento, has been appointed technical advisor at the California Public Utilities Commission. Mataka has served as assistant secretary for environmental...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Howard R. Krauss, 67, of Los Angeles, has been reappointed to the Medical Board of California, where he has served since 2013. Krauss has been director of neurosurgical ophthalmology...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Joy Anne Sterling, 63, of Sebastopol, has been reappointed to the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, where she has served since 2013. Sterling has been chief executive...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Erin Mellon, 29, of Sacramento, has been appointed assistant director of public affairs at the California Department of Water Resources. Mellon has served as communications and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Grant Davis, 54, of Petaluma, has been appointed director of the California Department of Water Resources. Davis has been general manager of the Sonoma County Water Agency since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Joel Ledesma, 49, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of the State Water Project at the California Department of Water Resources. Ledesma has served in several...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Tad Egawa, 50, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Egawa has served as general counsel at the California...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: John Spangler, 49, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy secretary of legislation and government relations at the California Department of Veterans Affairs. Spangler has been...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Nicolas Maduros, 46, of Bethesda, Maryland, has been appointed director at the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Maduros served as chief of staff at the U.S. Small...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ruth Atkins, 32, of Redding, has been appointed to the Collateral Recovery Disciplinary Review Committee. Atkins has been a community development coordinator at the Shasta County...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Suzanne Peery, 49, of Milford, has been appointed warden at the California Correctional Center, where she has been acting warden since 2016. Peery served in several positions at High...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Russell Atterberry, 41, of Folsom, has been appointed to the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council. Atterberry has been undersecretary at the California Department of Veterans...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ryan Marcroft, 39, of Carmichael, has been appointed deputy director of legal affairs at the California Department of Consumer Affairs, where he has served as assistant chief counsel...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Richard Rogers, 55, of Roseville, has been appointed chief of the Office of Technology Services at the California Department of Technology, where he has served as deputy director of...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: John Busterud, 62, of Belvedere, has been appointed to the California Veterans Board. Busterud has been managing counsel and senior director at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lisa Halko, 56, of Davis, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Department of Conservation. Halko has been an administrative law judge at the California Department of...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Maria Anguiano, 38, of Riverside, has been appointed to the University of California Board of Regents. Anguiano has been chief financial officer at Minerva Project Inc. since 2017....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Imelda Ceja-Butkiewicz, 58, of Bakersfield, has been reappointed to the California Board of Registered Nursing, where she has served since 2014. Ceja-Butkiewicz has served in...

5-26-2017 SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Joseph Galvan, 48, of West Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of the Office of Internal Affairs at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Gilberto Chavez, 59, of Roseville, has been appointed deputy director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the California Department of Public Health, where he has been deputy...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Barry Anderson, 56, of Danville, has been appointed to the California Earthquake Early Warning Advisory Board. Anderson has been vice president of electric distribution at the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Kim E. Baskett to a judgeship in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court. Baskett, 64, of Watsonville, has been a commissioner at the Santa Cruz County Superior Court since 2007, where she...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Somnath Raj Chatterjee to a judgeship in the Alameda County Superior Court. Chatterjee, 47, of Oakland, has been a partner at Antolin Agarwal and Chatterjee LLP since earlier in 2017. He was...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Benjamin T. Reyes II and Wade M. Rhyne to judgeships in the Contra Costa County Superior Court. Reyes, 51, of Alameda, has been a principal at Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver and Wilson PLC...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Tana L. Coates to a judgeship in the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court. Coates, 58, of San Luis Obispo, has been a partner at Coates and Coates LLP since 2009. She was a partner at James...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Daryl E. Kennedy and Adam B. Ryan to judgeships in the Shasta County Superior Court. Kennedy, 59, of Redding, has served as a commissioner at the Shasta County Superior Court since 2013,...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gloria J. Cannon to a judgeship in the Kern County Superior Court. Cannon, 48, of Bakersfield, has served as a deputy public defender at the Kern County Public Defender’s Office since 2002....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gregory J. Elvine-Kreis to a judgeship in the Humboldt County Superior Court. Elvine-Kreis, 47, of Arcata, has been supervising attorney at the Humboldt County Public Defender’s Office since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Laura S. Woods to a judgeship in the Tehama County Superior Court. Woods, 53, of Cottonwood, has been a public defender at the Law Office of Laura S. Woods since 2008. She was an associate at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Rebecca May, 41, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief of the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau at the California Department of Consumer Affairs, where she has served as a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, Robert S. Harrison, Sarah J. Heidel, Gus T. May, Rubiya Nur, Nancy A. Ramirez, Lynn H. Scaduto, Neetu S. Badhan-Smith and J. Christopher Smith to judgeships in the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Carol L. Henson and Antony C. Ufland to judgeships in the Orange County Superior Court. Henson, 55, of Santa Ana, has been an assistant district attorney at the Orange County District...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Winston S. Keh and Antoine F. Raphael to judgeships in the San Bernardino County Superior Court. Keh, 54, of Stevenson Ranch, has served as a commissioner at the San Bernardino County...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Deborah Hoffman, 51, of Sacramento, has been appointed undersecretary at the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency effective June 1, 2017. She has served as a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jacob Appelsmith, 53, of Sacramento, has been appointed director at the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Appelsmith has been chief campus counsel at the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Maricela Gomez, 40, of La Crescenta-Montrose, has been appointed deputy director of legislative and inter-governmental affairs in the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lisa Cisneros, 37, of Aptos, has been appointed to the California Fair Employment and Housing Council. Cisneros has been an attorney and program director of the Lesbian, Gay,...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Georgeanne Croskey, 38, of Willits, has been appointed to represent the third district on the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors. Croskey has been a veterinarian at Mendocino...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Janet Hansen, 61, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the California State Historical Resources Commission. Hansen has been deputy manager for the Office of Historic Resources at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Monica Miller, 54, of Gold River, has been appointed deputy chief, Homeland Security Division in the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. Miller has been special agent in charge...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lona “Grace” Koch, 52, of Elk Grove, has been appointed chief deputy director at the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where she has been special advisor and deputy director...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Michelle Banonis, 40, of Sacramento, has been appointed assistant chief deputy director at the California Department of Water Resources. Banonis has been area manager for the Bay...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Douglas Faigin, 71, of Marina del Rey, has been reappointed to the California State University Board of Trustees, where he has served since 2012. Faigin has been president at City...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Karen Yamamoto, 67, of Sacramento, has been appointed to the California State Teachers' Retirement Board. Yamamoto served as a second grade teacher for the Washington Unified School...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Anthony Sertich, 39, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of enterprise risk management and compliance at the California Housing Finance Agency, where he has been director of...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kevin Kung, 40, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Kung has been a teacher at Palisades Charter High School since 2004. He was...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Shawn Hatton, 50, of King City, has been appointed warden at Correctional Training Facility, Soledad, where he has been acting warden since 2016. Hatton served in several positions...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Yvonne Burke, 84, of Los Angeles, has been reappointed to the California Transportation Commission, where she has served since 2010. Burke served as a member of the Los Angeles...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Anthony Campos, 73, of Watsonville, has been reappointed to the 14th District Agricultural Association, Santa Cruz County Fair Board of Directors, where he has served since 2014....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lynn von Koch-Liebert, 33, of Rancho Cordova, has been appointed deputy secretary of housing and consumer services at the California Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Teresa Bui, 30, of Sacramento, has been appointed special advisor to the director at the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). Bui has been a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Tam Doduc, 50, of Sacramento, has been reappointed to the State Water Resources Control Board, where she has served since 2005. Doduc served in several positions at the California...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ross Lai, 57, of San Francisco, has been reappointed to the Dental Board of California, where he has served since 2013. Lai has been director at Lai Enterprises Inc. since 2005 and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Matt Chesnut, 43, of Palo Cedro, has been appointed to the State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention. Chesnut has been executive director and chief executive...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Bethany Pane, 39, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief counsel at the Delta Stewardship Council, where she has been acting chief counsel since 2016 and has served as an attorney...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Dana Hollinger, 58, of Beverly Hills, has been reappointed to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System Board of Administration, where she has been chair of the Risk and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Brian Duffy, 57, of Sacramento, has been appointed associate director of reception center institutions at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Aimee Barnes, 35, of Alameda, has been appointed senior advisor to the Governor in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Barnes has been a partner at Allotrope Partners since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Nicole Soluri, 39, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California State Lottery, where she has been chief counsel since 2012. Soluri was an attorney at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today released annual applicant and appointee data for the administration's judicial appointments. From 2011 through 2016, Governor Brown appointed 356 judges - including 45 in 2016 - from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jennifer Johnson, 43, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy legislative secretary in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Johnson was manager of the education strategic...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Alexis Podesta, 36, of Carmichael, has been appointed secretary at the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, where she has served as undersecretary since 2015....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Christiana Tiedemann, 59, of Berkeley, has been appointed deputy secretary for law enforcement and counsel at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Tiedemann has served as...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kurt Cooknick, 53, of Fair Oaks, has been appointed deputy to the state architect at the California Department of General Services, Division of the State Architect. Cooknick has been...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Alice Busching Reynolds, 50, of San Francisco, has been appointed senior advisor to the Governor for climate, the environment and energy in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Sid Voorakkara, 46, of San Diego, has been appointed deputy director of external affairs at the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), where he has served...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Cindy Messer, 48, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Water Resources, where she has served as assistant chief deputy director...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: David Baughman, 51, of Placerville, has been appointed warden at California State Prison, Sacramento, where he has been acting warden since 2016 and has served in several positions...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ashutosh Bhagwat, 52, of Moraga, has been reappointed to the California Independent System Operator Board of Governors, where he has served since 2011. Bhagwat has been a professor...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jolie Onodera, 47, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy secretary of legislation at the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. Onodera has been principal...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Christopher Calfee, 41, of Sacramento, has been appointed general counsel at the California Natural Resources Agency. Calfee has been senior counsel at the Governor's Office of...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Michelle Baass, 42, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy secretary of the Office of Program and Fiscal Affairs at the California Health and Human Services Agency. Baass has been...

SACRAMENTO - Following the resignation of California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. officially submitted U.S. Congressman Xavier Becerra’s (D-CA) nomination for California Attorney General to the State Legislature today. The nomination...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Martha Guzman Aceves and Clifford Rechtschaffen to the California Public Utilities Commission, replacing Michael Florio and Catherine Sandoval whose six-year terms expire on January 1, 2017....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of William S. Dato to Division One and Richard T. Fields to Division Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Dato, 61, of Poway, has served as a judge at the San Diego County Superior Court...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Kathleen A. Meehan as associate justice of the Fifth District Court of Appeal. Meehan, 63, of Fresno, has been a judge at the Fresno County Superior Court since 2014, where she served as a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Stephen M. Murphy to a judgeship in the San Francisco County Superior Court. Murphy, 60, of San Francisco, has been a sole practitioner since 1999. He was a partner at Bianco and Murphy from...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Scott L. Tedmon to a judgeship in the Sacramento County Superior Court. Tedmon, 62, of Carmichael, has been a sole practitioner since 1994. He was a partner at the Law Offices of Tedmon and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of David I. Ashby to a judgeship in the Sutter County Superior Court. Ashby, 39, of Yuba City, has been an owner and attorney at the Ashby Law Firm since 2002. He earned a Juris Doctor degree...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Elizabeth C. Peterson to a judgeship in the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Peterson, 45, of Portola Valley, has been a partner at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati PC since 2008. She...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of JoAnn M. Bicego to a judgeship in the Siskiyou County Superior Court. Bicego, 53, of Yreka, has served as a commissioner at the Siskiyou County Superior Court since 2009. She served as acting...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Yvette Durant to a judgeship in the Sierra County Superior Court. Durant, 51, of Truckee, has served as a commissioner at the Nevada County Superior Court since 2011. She was a sole...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of William J. Pendergast to a judgeship in the Solano County Superior Court. Pendergast, 44, of Davis, has served as a commissioner at the Solano County Superior Court since 2011. He was a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Firdaus F. Dordi, Mark H. Epstein, Ruben N. Garcia, Gary I. Micon, Kevin S. Rosenberg and P. Tamu Usher to judgeships in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Dordi, 46, of Los Angeles, has...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Bradley S. Erdosi, Richard E. Pacheco and Michael J. Strickroth to judgeships in the Orange County Superior Court. Erdosi, 42, of Laguna Hills, has been principal attorney at the Law Offices...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Rachel Cano, Laura E. Duffy, Cynthia A. Freeland and Maryann D’Addezio Kotler to judgeships in the San Diego County Superior Court. Cano, 50, of San Diego, has served as a deputy district...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gus Correa Barrera II to a judgeship in the San Joaquin County Superior Court. Barrera, 47, of Stockton, has been a sole practitioner since 2011. He was a partner and attorney at the Law...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Marco D. Nunez to a judgeship in the Imperial County Superior Court. Nunez, 45, of El Centro, has served as a deputy district attorney at the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Kira L. Klatchko to a judgeship in the Riverside County Superior Court. Klatchko, 35, of Palm Springs, has been a partner and appellate practice vice chair at Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Walter Vasquez, 53, of El Cajon, has been appointed to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Vasquez has been chief of police at the La Mesa Police Department since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Janet Marie Weeks, 56, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of communications at the California State Board of Education. Weeks has been communications manager for the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Muntu Davis, 47, of San Ramon, has been reappointed to the First 5 California Children and Families Commission, where he has served since 2013. Davis has served as department...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Marion Spearman, 53, of Janesville, has been appointed warden at High Desert State Prison, where he has served as acting warden since 2016. Spearman served as warden at the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lauren Zeise, 62, of Berkeley, has been appointed director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment at the California Environmental Protection Agency, where she has...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Marty Block, 66, of San Diego, has been appointed chair of the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Block served as Senator for the California State Senate's 39th...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Raji Brar, 41, of Bakersfield, has been appointed to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. Brar has been owner and operator at Countryside Market and Restaurants...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today named U.S. Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) to replace Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate last month. The nomination, which is subject to confirmation by the California State Assembly...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Michael Martel, 62, of Rancho Murieta, has been appointed warden at the California Health Care Facility, Stockton, where he has been acting warden since August 2016 and served as...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Harold Gee, 49, of Arroyo Grande, has been appointed alternate member of the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training. Gee has been a correctional officer at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Daljit Bains, 44, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of permit assistance in the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. Bains has been owner and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Keali’i Bright, 40, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy secretary for energy and climate at the California Natural Resources Agency, where he has served as deputy secretary for...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Patrick J. Mallon, 70, of Azusa, has been appointed assistant director of public safety communications in the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Mallon was executive director...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Thomas Gibson as undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, replacing Janelle Beland, who has served in that role since 2011. "Tom has done a tremendous job as general counsel...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Dr. B.J. Davis, 61, of Elk Grove, has been appointed to the State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Dr. Davis has been an adjunct professor at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Thuy Mascorro, 43, of Chula Vista, has been appointed administrator of the Veterans Home of California, Chula Vista, where she has served as standards compliance coordinator since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Brigid Hanson, 61, of Cameron Park, has been appointed chief of the Office of Labor Relations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where she has been...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Deborah Asuncion, 57, of Corona, has been appointed warden at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, where she has served as acting warden since 2015. Asuncion was chief deputy...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Joel Martinez, 50, of Oakdale, has been appointed warden at the Sierra Conservation Center, Jamestown, where he has served as acting warden since 2015. Martinez served in several...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Lawrence Imperial, 46, of Fresno, has been appointed administrator at the Veterans Home of California, Fresno, where he has served as acting administrator and skilled nursing...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Chuck Supple, 58, of Sacramento, has been appointed chair of the Board of Juvenile Hearings at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has served as a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Scott Gregory, 42, of Roseville, has been appointed deputy director of the Office of Digital Innovation at the California Department of Technology, where he has served as the state...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jose Iniguez, 47, of Fallbrook, has been appointed to the Instructional Quality Commission. Iniguez has been assistant superintendent of educational services at the Fallbrook Union...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Rosanna Westmoreland, 53, of Carmichael, has been appointed deputy director for the Office of Communications at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Westmoreland...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: C. David Johnson Jr., 33, of Sacramento, has been appointed legislative director at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Johnson has served as legislative director...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Victoria Benson, 62, of Fresno, has been reappointed to the California State Rehabilitation Council, where she has served since 2014. Benson has been adult transition project...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Joyce E. Dudley, 63, of Carpinteria, has been appointed chair of the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, where she has served as a member since 2013. Dudley has...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Brady Moss, 46, of Sacramento, has been appointed assistant secretary for policy at the California Natural Resources Agency. Moss has been a senior conservation planner at GEI...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Saul Gomez, 38, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy cabinet secretary in the Office of the Governor. Gomez was deputy secretary for energy at the California Natural Resources...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Christopher Stevens, 53, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Department of Technology. Stevens has been chief counsel at the Delta Stewardship Council...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ryan Marcroft, 38, of Carmichael, has been appointed assistant chief counsel at the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Marcroft has been a deputy attorney general at the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Melinda McClain, 35, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy legislative secretary in the Office of the Governor. McClain was deputy director of legislative and regulatory review at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Anne Hawley, 51, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy appointments secretary in the Office of the Governor, where she has served as special assistant to the appointments...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Adam Quiñonez, 32, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director for legislative and policy review at the California Department of Consumer Affairs, where he has served as...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Reneeta Anthony, 57, of Fresno, has been appointed to the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. Anthony has been executive director at A3...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Amy Tong, 42, of Elk Grove, has been appointed director of the California Department of Technology, where she has served as acting director since 2016. Tong was chief deputy director...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Michele M. Castillo to a judgeship in the Ventura County Superior Court. Castillo, 47, of Camarillo, has served as a commissioner at the Ventura County Superior Court since 2014. She served...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Tamara L. Wood to a judgeship in the Shasta County Superior Court. Wood, 46, of Palo Cedro, has served as a commissioner at the Shasta County Superior Court since 2014, where she was general...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Carlos R. Gutierrez to a judgeship in the Solano County Superior Court. Gutierrez, 58, of Dixon, has been an attorney in private practice at Bernheim, Gutierrez and McCready since 1994. He...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Lupe C. Garcia to a judgeship in the Alameda County Superior Court. Garcia, 47, of Alameda, has been associate general counsel and senior director for global integrity at Gap Inc. since 2006,...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Roger C. Chan to a judgeship in the San Francisco County Superior Court. Chan, 43, of San Francisco, has been executive director at East Bay Children’s Law Offices since 2009. He served as a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of John P. Bianco and Nathan G. Leedy to judgeships in the Tulare County Superior Court. Bianco, 51, of Visalia, has been owner and attorney at the Bianco Law Firm since 1994. Bianco earned a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Craig B. Van Rooyen to a judgeship in the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court. Van Rooyen, 49, of San Luis Obispo, has served as a deputy district attorney at the San Luis Obispo County...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Maria Andrea Davalos, Dean Hansell, David E. Hizami, Lisa R. Jaskol, Andrew C. Kim, LaRonda J. McCoy and William L. Sadler to judgeships in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Davalos, 44,...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Layne H. Melzer and Gary M. Pohlson to judgeships in the Orange County Superior Court. Melzer, 54, of Trabuco Canyon, has been a partner at Rutan and Tucker LLP since 1994, where he has been...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Frank L. Birchak to a judgeship in the San Diego County Superior Court. Birchak, 42, of San Diego, has served as director of training, recruitment and career development at the San Diego...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jeffrey Mason, 53, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Mason has been chief deputy commissioner at the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: David Fukutomi, 51, of Camarillo, has been appointed deputy director for response and recovery operations in the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where he has been assistant...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Teresa Marks, 58, of Little Rock, Arkansas, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Marks served as principal advisor to the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jennifer Carlquist, 43, of Salinas, has been appointed to the California Physician Assistant Board. Carlquist has been an emergency room physician assistant at the Community Hospital...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Amilia Glikman, 39, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, where she has been assistant chief counsel since 2015...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Peter Cervinka, 44, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Social Services, where he has served as program deputy director for...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ursula Stuter, 47, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy administrator of the Veterans Home of California, Yountville. Stuter has served as staff counsel at the California...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Rachelle Weir, 46, of Anaheim, has been appointed programs manager for the California Exposition and State Fair. Weir has been exhibit supervisor for the 32nd District Agricultural...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Alicia Rabena-Amen, 48, of Stockton, has been reappointed to the Physical Therapy Board of California, where she has served since 2014. Rabena-Amen has been adjunct faculty at the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Gia Brazil Vacin, 40, of Oakland, has been appointed zero emission vehicle infrastructure project manager at the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Amy Miller, 42, of Folsom, has been appointed associate director of female offender programs and services at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where she...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jared Goldman, 44, of Napa, has been appointed deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Health Care Services. Goldman has been a partner at Best, Best and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Albert Lundeen, 58, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy executive director for strategic planning and media at the California Energy Commission, where he has served as acting...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kelly Hargreaves, 56, of Woodland, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Rehabilitation, where she has been chief counsel since 2006. Hargreaves...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Charles Cullen, 58, of Mountain View, has been reappointed to the State 9-1-1 Advisory Board, where he has served since 2013. Cullen has served as police technical services director...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Maryam Ebke, 57, of Corte Madera, has been appointed deputy executive director at the California Public Utilities Commission, where she has served as assistant chief administrative...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jay Virbel, 50, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Mark W. Owens, 56, of Carmichael, has been appointed chief counsel in the Office of Systems Integration at the California Health and Human Services Agency, where he has been senior...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Patrick Barrett, 57, of Carmichael, has been appointed deputy director of legislation at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, where he has been acting deputy director of...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Zolaikha Taghvaei Bayar, 59, of Davis, has been appointed assistant deputy director of the Site Mitigation and Brownfields Reuse Program at the California Department of Toxic...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kristen Kane, 32, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of the California Competes Tax Credit Program at the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ali Bay, 43, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director at the California Department of Public Health, Office of Public Affairs. Bay has served as press secretary in the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Michelle Dove, 48, of Hanford, has been appointed to the State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention. Dove has been head start child development director at the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Marcela M. Ruiz, 40, of Stockton, has been appointed chief of the Immigration Branch in the Welfare to Work Division at the California Department of Social Services. Ruiz has been...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Robin Purdy, 65, of Herald, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Workforce Development Board, where she has been a special consultant since 2015. Purdy has been...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Tom Martinez, 47, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy general manager for the California Exposition and State Fair. Martinez has been state government relations manager at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Isabel Barreras, 49, of Madera, has been reappointed to the 21a District Agricultural Association, Madera District Fair Board of Directors, where she has served since 2003. Barreras...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Judith Frank, 74, of Los Angeles, has been reappointed to the California Health Facilities Financing Authority, where she has served since 2002. Frank has been managing principal and...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ralph M. Diaz, 46, of Sacramento, has been appointed undersecretary for operations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has served as deputy...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jemahl Amen, 45, of Sacramento has been appointed deputy director of facility management at the California Department of General Services, where he has served as acting deputy...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Gilbert Mendez, 69, of San Jose, has been reappointed to the California World Language Project Advisory Board, where he has served since 2001. Mendez was a Spanish and French...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Gerardo Cornejo, 46, of Carpinteria, has been appointed to the 19th District Agricultural Association, Santa Barbara Fair and Exposition Board of Directors. Cornejo has been...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Ellen Tauscher, 64, of San Francisco, has been appointed chair of the Governor's Military Council, where she has served as chair since 2013. Tauscher served as undersecretary of...