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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Tam Doduc, 46, of Sacramento, has been appointed to the State Water Resources Control Board, where she has served since 2005. Doduc has held multiple positions at the California...
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SAN FRANCISCO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. joined with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Wednesday to make an announcement on renewable energy. In January 2012, Secretary Salazar and Governor Brown signed an agreement to expand a state and federal partnership...
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SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Robin Baker, 59, of Berkeley, has been appointed to the California State Compensation Insurance Fund Board of Directors. Baker has been director of research to practice at the...
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SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointment. Manuel Nevarez, 40, of Madera, has been appointed to represent the first district on the Madera County Board of Supervisors. Nevarez has been an account executive at PMAC Lending...
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Gloria Bell, 57, of Salinas, has been appointed to the California Employment Training Panel. Bell has been safety officer and employee relations manager at Driscoll Strawberry Associates Inc. since 2002. She was human resource manager at Temple-Inland Paperboard and...
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Rocky Burks, 60, of Rohnert Park, has been appointed to the California Commission on Disability Access, where he has served since 2009. Burks has been a disability access consultant at Rocky A. Burks Consulting since 2008 and a disability access consultant for the...
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Yvonne Burke, 80, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the California Transportation Commission, where she has served since 2010. Burke served as supervisor for Los Angeles County from 1992 to 2008. She was a partner at Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue from 1987 to 1992...
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Martin Biter, 48, of Bakersfield, has been appointed warden at Kern Valley State Prison, where he has served as acting warden since 2010 and as chief deputy warden since 2009. Biter served in multiple positions at Wasco State Prison from 1991 to 2009, including...
read moreGovernor Brown Releases 2012 Judicial Appointment Data
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today released applicant and appointee data for the administration’s judicial appointments. Since Governor Brown took office, there have been a total of 1,168 applicants for judicial appointments and 90 appointments. Women...
read moreGovernor Brown Signs Compact with Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed a tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians. The compact includes provisions to protect employees and patrons as well as measures to...
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