Governor Appointments

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of John B. Scherling to a judgeship in the San Diego County Superior Court. Scherling, 56, of San Diego, has been a partner at Sughrue Mion, PLLC since 2008, where he was of counsel from 2005 to...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Christopher C. Hite to a judgeship in the San Francisco County Superior Court. Hite, 46, of San Francisco, has served as a deputy public defender at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Russell Atterberry, 39, of Folsom, has been appointed undersecretary at the California Department of Veterans Affairs. Atterberry has been executive officer at the Navy Operational...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: David Sapp, 36, of Napa, has been appointed deputy policy director and assistant legal counsel at the California State Board of Education. Sapp has been director of education...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today appointed Dana Gioia as California Poet Laureate. Gioia, 64, of Santa Rosa, has been the Judge Widney professor of poetry and public culture at the University of Southern California since 2011. As chairman of the...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Poonum Rashmikant Patel, 26, of Sacramento, has been appointed senior permit assistance specialist at the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, where she has served...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement on California Department of Conservation Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources supervisor Steven Bohlen’s plans to return to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Bohlen will...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Blanca Rodriguez, 50, of Elk Grove, has been appointed deputy district director for external affairs at the California Department of Transportation District 7. She has been District...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Michael Johnston, 63, of Watsonville, has been reappointed to the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, where he has served since 2011. Johnston has been a consultant...