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Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger today announced the following
appointments:
Robert Brown, 42, of Pleasant Hill, has been appointed to the
Contractors State License Board. He has been a
member of the board since 2005. Brown has worked for California State Automobile
Association as director of corporate affairs since 2005, senior manager for
governmental affairs from 2000 to 2005 and media relations manager from 1999 to
2000. From 1994 to 1999, Brown served as the assistant secretary at the State
and Consumer Services Agency and, from 1996 to 1999, he served as the deputy
director for communications and education at the Department of Consumer Affairs.
From 1993 to 1994, Brown served as a legislative aide to California State
Senator Frank Hill. He worked as a field representative to U.S. Senator John
Seymour from 1991 to 1992 and was an assistant to the director at the California
Arts Council from 1990 to 1991. From 1989 to 1990, Brown worked as a research
policy consultant for the U.S. Department of
Education. This position requires Senate confirmation and the
compensation is $100 per diem. Brown is a Republican.
Lisa Cooley, 39, of Rancho
Cordova, has been appointed to the State Council on Developmental
Disabilities. She has served on the council since 2006. In 2006, Cooley worked
as a resource counselor and career center assistant for Francis House. In 2005,
she was a protection and advocacy contract associate and a protection and
advocacy consultant for the Developmental
Disabilities Peer Self Advocacy Unit. This position does not require Senate
confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Cooley is a Democrat.
Michael Esparza, 48, of Moreno Valley, has been appointed to the State
Board of Fire Services. He has served on the board since 1993 and currently
serves as vice-chair. Esparza has worked for the Riverside Fire Department as a
firefighter since 1981 and has served as battalion chief since 1998. From 1980
to 1981, he worked for the Los Angeles County Fire Department as a fire
suppression aide. Esparza is a member of the Governor's Blue Ribbon (Fire)
Commission Task Force, the California State Firefighters' Association, the
California Fire Chiefs' Association and the Riverside City Firefighters'
Association Local 1067. He serves as president of the Riverside Fire Management
Group. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no
salary. Esparza is a Republican.
Bradley Franklin, 43, of Chino Hills, has been appointed
to the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. He has worked for the
Yamaha Motor Corporation USA as a government relations
department manager since 2003, customer relations, warranty and extended service
department manager from 1998 to 2003, senior technical coordinator from 1995 to
1998 and technical training developer from 1993 to 1995. Prior to that,
Franklin worked
for the American Suzuki Motor Corporation as a video training and publications
specialist from to 1988 to 1993 and warranty and customer relations service
administrator from 1985 to 1988. He serves as chair of the American Watercraft
Association Board of Directors and is a member of the Tread Lightly! Board of
Directors. Additionally, Franklin is a member of the Personal Watercraft
Association, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Recreational Off-Road
Vehicle Organization Technical Advisory Panel and the Specialty Vehicle
Institute of America Technical Advisory Panel. This position requires Senate
confirmation and the compensation is $50 per diem. Franklin is a Republican.
Steven Limrite, 44, of Concord, has been appointed to the Contra Costa
County Fair Board of Directors (23rd District Agricultural
Association). He has served on the board of directors since 2001. Limrite has
worked for Contra
Costa County as a fire district dispatcher since
2005, sheriff's supervising dispatcher from 1992 to 2005, sheriff's dispatcher
from 1989 to 1992, call taker from 1988 to 1989 and a reserve sheriff's deputy
from 1986 to 1988. He is a member of the Cal-Western Appaloosa Show Horse
Association, Incorporated Board of Directors and the Ewa-Tom-Likhim Appaloosa
Horse Club Board of Directors. This position does not require Senate
confirmation and there is no salary. Limrite is a Republican.
Louis Mangini, 84, of Pleasant Hill, has been appointed to the Contra
Costa County Fair Board of Directors (23rd District Agricultural
Association). He has served on the board of directors since 1983 and has owned
Mangini Farms since 1941. Mangini is a member of the Contra Costa County
Sheriff's Posse Executive Board of Directors and serves on the Contra Costa
County Farm Bureau Board of Directors and Rogers Ranch Board of Directors. He is
a member of the Pleasant Hill Chamber of Commerce. This position does not
require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Mangini is a Republican.
Loreen McMahon, 51, of El Dorado Hills, has been
appointed associate public adviser for the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission. Since 2007, she has served as an energy industry
analyst for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. From 1991 to 2006, McMahon
worked for the U.S. Department of Energy for the Western Area Power
Administration as an environmental protection specialist, a project manager,
National Environmental Policy Act compliance officer and document manager,
Native American point of contact and contracting officer's representative.
McMahon worked for the Governor's Office of Planning and Research as manager of
the California State Clearinghouse from 1990 to 1991 and as intergovernmental
program analyst from 1988 to 1990. From 1981 to 1987, she worked as a secretary
for Assemblymember Nolan Frizzelle, Assemblymember Don Sebastiani and
Assemblymember Marian La Follette and as an intern for Senator John Garamendi in
the California
State legislature. This
position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $80,000.
McMahon is a Republican.
Michael Naple, 25, of Coronado, has been appointed assistant press
secretary for the Office of the Governor. Most recently, he served as external
affairs coordinator in the Office of External Affairs for Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger from 2007 to 2008. Prior to that, Naple served as an executive
fellow in the Office of the Governor in 2007. He also served as an executive
fellow at the Fair Political Practices Commission from 2006 to 2007. From 2005
to 2006, Naple served as a field office intern for Senator Denise Moreno
Ducheny. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations and
cinema television critical studies from University of Southern
California. This position does not require Senate
confirmation and the compensation is $40,000. Naple is a
Democrat.
Byron Parsons, 76, of Antioch, has been appointed to the Contra Costa
County Fair Board of Directors (23rd District Agricultural
Association). He has served on the board of directors since 2001 and currently
serves as president. Prior to retiring, Parsons worked as a senior buyer for
E.I. DuPont de Nemours from 1956 to 1996. He currently serves as the chair of
the East Contra Costa Transit Authority Board of Directors, is a member of
Kiwanis Club of the Delta-Antioch and is a charter member of the Antioch
Historical Society. Additionally, Parsons is past president of the Antioch
Chamber of Commerce and former mayor of Antioch. This position does not require Senate
confirmation and there is no salary. Parsons is a Democrat.
Per Peterson, 48, of Berkeley, has been appointed to the Diablo
Canyon Independent Safety Committee. He previously served on the committee from
2004 to 2007 as an appointee of Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Since 1990,
Peterson has worked as a professor for the Nuclear Engineering Department at the
University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, he has worked as a
mechanical engineering faculty member for the Accelerator and Fusion Research
Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1999. Peterson
served the University of California,
Berkeley as
chair of the Nuclear Engineering Department from 2000 to 2005 and the Energy and
Resources Group from 1998 to 2000. He served at the Nuclear Engineering
Department at the University of
California, Berkeley as an associate
professor from 1994 to 1998 and as an assistant professor from 1990 to 1994.
From 1988 to 1989, Peterson was an assistant specialist for the Mechanical
Engineering Department at the University of California, Irvine and, in 1988, he worked as a guest
researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1985 to 1988, Peterson
served as a research assistant in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the
University of California, Berkeley and, from 1982 to 1985, he worked as an
engineer at Bechtel National, Incorporated. Peterson serves as the current chair
of the Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor Academic Advisory Group for General
Atomics, the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Initiative Advisory Committee and the
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Additionally, he serves as co-chair of
the Generation IV Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection Experts Group
and is a former member of the Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors and the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Peterson is also a fellow of the
American Nuclear Society. This position does not require Senate confirmation and
there is no salary. Peterson is a Democrat.
Kane
Silverberg, 40, of Soquel, has been appointed to
the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. Since 2004, he has worked
as principal and branch manager of Residential Pacific Mortgage. From 2000 to
2004, Silverberg was principal and branch manager of Partners Mortgage and, from
1992 to 1999, he was a mortgage planner for Pacific Inland Financial. Silverberg
is a member of the American Motorcyclist Association, the Hollister Hills
Off-Road Association and the BlueRibbon Coalition. This position requires Senate
confirmation and the compensation is $50 per diem. Silverberg is a Republican.
Paul Slavik, 66, of Huntington Beach, has been appointed to the
Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. Prior to retiring in 2005, he
worked for the American Honda Motor Company as coordinator of the environment
and education, motorcycle division from 2002 to 2005, national off-highway
vehicle press coordinator from 2000 to 2002, national off-highway vehicle
coordinator from 1990 to 2000 and various other positions from 1976 to 1990.
Slavik is a member of the American Motorcyclist Association. He helped design
the Off-Road Pals Program and served on its steering committee from 1994 to
2005. The position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $50 per
diem. Slavik is a Republican.
Antonio Spampinato, 60, of Richmond, has been
appointed to the Contra Costa County Fair Board of Directors (23rd District Agricultural Association). Since 2005, he has served as an independent
medical interpreter. Additionally, he owned ChoriPan King Catering Service from
2004 to 2006. From 1997 to 2004, Spampinato co-owned and was the training
director of the Healthflow Learning Center. Previously, he worked as a
consultant for the California Office of AIDS from 1986 to 2000. Spampinato
worked for the California Department of Health Services as a public health
consultant in the Rural Health Division from 1984 to 1986 and as a public health
consultant in the Hypertension Control Program from 1982 to 1984. He is a member
of the Federation Wado Kai San Francisco. This position does not require Senate
confirmation and there is no salary. Spampinato is registered
American-Independent.
Paul Spinola, 40, of Brentwood, has been appointed to the Contra Costa County
Fair Board of Directors (23rd District Agricultural Association).
Since 1997, he has owned Spinola Farms. Additionally, Spinola has worked as a
journeyman ironworker through the Iron Workers Local #378 since 1987 and is
currently the general foreman for GSE Construction at Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory. He is a member of the Contra Costa County Farm Bureau and currently
serves as president. This position does not require Senate confirmation and
there is no salary. Spinola is a Republican.
Louis
Stout, 73, of Pleasant
Hill, has been appointed to the Contra Costa County Fair
Board of Directors (23rd District Agricultural Association). He has
been self-employed as a consultant doing business under Louis E. Stout
Consulting since 2007. Prior to retiring, Stout
worked as a senior manager and director of federal programs for Shaw
Environmental and Infrastructure from 1999 to 2007. Prior to that, he was a
senior vice president for Inner City Fund Kaiser International, Incorporated
from 1997 to 1999 and was general manager and director of government programs
for International Technology, Incorporated from 1989 to 1997. From 1986 to
1989, Stout worked as the western regional director for URS Consultants
environmental remediation programs and, from 1983 to 1986, he worked as a senior
program manager of government environmental remediation programs for Black and
Veatch Engineer Architects. From 1980 to 1983, he worked as a program manager
for Collins and Ryder. Stout served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1980 and
served as a combat engineer and public works engineer retiring as a lieutenant
colonel. He is a member of the American Public Works Association, a life member
of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a senior fellow in the Society of
American Military Engineers. This position does not require Senate confirmation
and there is no salary. Stout is a Republican.
Lynette Tanner-Busby, 59, of Martinez, has been
appointed to the Contra Costa County Board of Directors (23rd District Agricultural Association). She has served on the board of directors
since 1996. Since 1989, Tanner-Busby has worked as the executive director for
the Contra Costa Centre Association. Prior to that, she worked as a community
relations director for TCI Cable from 1988 to 1993. Tanner-Busby is a member of
the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, the Contra Costa Council, the Martinez
Planning Commission and the John Muir Health Women's Group. Additionally, she is
chair of the Contra Costa Centre Area Municipal Advisory Council. This position
does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Tanner-Busby is a
Republican.
Michael Williams, 50, of Santa Barbara, has been appointed to the State
Board of Fire Services. Since 1985, he has served as president of Michael S.
Williams Security Systems, Incorporated. From 1979 to 1989, Williams worked as
a police officer for the University of California Police Department and, from
1978 to 1979, he worked as a reserve police officer for the Irvine Police
Department. Williams has served as president and executive director of the Fire
Services Training Institute since 2006 and Wildland Residents Associations,
Incorporated since 2003. He is a member of the National Volunteer Fire Council,
California State Firefighters' Association and Tri-County Training Officers
Association. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no
salary. Williams is a Republican.
