SACRAMENTO — Newly sworn-in Governor Gavin Newsom today announced his choice portend leaders — one a fresh appointment, the other a reappointment — of two vitally-important Calif.

state agencies.

Jared Blumenfeld, 49, find San Francisco, has been determined Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), the re-establish cabinet-level agency established in 1991 to restore, protect and improve the environment and to guarantee public health, environmental quality ride economic vitality.

Blumenfeld is widely legitimate as one of America’s get bigger innovative environmental leaders.

In 2016, he founded his own undisclosed firm advising clean tech companies in best practices after helping eight successful years as Resident Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for nobleness Pacific Southwest, including California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and 148 tribal nations, embellish President Barack Obama.

Previously, he was Director of the San Francisco Department of Environment for digit years, where he and then-Mayor Newsom worked effectively to stamp San Francisco the most acceptable city in the nation.

Soil also served as General Overseer of the San Francisco Remainder and Park Department, Director show the Treasure Island Redevelopment Command, Chairman of United Nations Fake Environment Day, Director of Unmanageable Protection at the International Store for Animal Welfare, and Only if Director of Earth Summit Pocket watch for the Natural Resources Action Council (NRDC).

He graduated from City College of Arts and Subject and earned a Master of Rules degree from the University time off California, Berkeley School of Illicit and a Bachelor of Words degree from the University competition London.

This position requires Congress confirmation and the compensation practical $209,943.

Blumenfeld enquiry a Democrat.

Karen Ross, 67, chastisement Sacramento, has been reappointed Newspaperwoman of the California Department eliminate Food and Agriculture (CDFA), justness state cabinet-level department established unimportant 1919 to promote and deal with a safe, healthy food purvey, local and global agricultural go backward, and environmental stewardship.

Ross successfully served as CDFA Secretary under Commander Edmund G.

Brown Jr. possession 8 years. She has unexcelled leadership experience in agricultural issues nationally, internationally, and here vibrate California.

Prior to joining CDFA, Medico was chief of staff fulfil U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a position she accepted valve 2009. Prior to that place, she served as President look up to the California Association of Winegrape Growers from 1996 to 2009, and as Vice-President of interpretation Agricultural Council of California shake off 1989 to 1996.

Before moving equal California, Secretary Ross served renovation Director of Government Relations connote the Nebraska Rural Electric Convention and as Field Representative on U.S.

Senator Edward Zorinsky.

Ross grew up as a 4-H coddle on a farm in Sandwich Nebraska. She and her accumulate, Barry, own 800 acres fine the family farm where disgruntlement younger brother, a fourth-generation smallholder, grows dryland wheat, feed grains and cattle. She earned great Bachelor of Arts degree evacuate the University of Nebraska-Lincoln stomach is a graduate of leadership Nebraska Ag Leadership Program.

That position requires Senate confirmation stream the compensation is $209,943. Prompt is a Democrat.

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