Senate on January 23, 2009, and took office that same day. On December 15, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama nominated Jackson to serve as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency she was confirmed by the U.S. Jackson also briefly served as Corzine's Chief of Staff in late 2008. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine appointed Jackson the state's Commissioner of Environmental Protection in 2006. In 2002, she joined the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection as the Assistant Commissioner of Compliance and Enforcement and Assistant Commissioner for Land Use Management. Soon after entering the EPA as a staff-level engineer in 1987, she moved to the EPA's regional office in New York City, where she spent the majority of her 16-year EPA career. She was the first African American to hold that position.īorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jackson is a graduate of Tulane University and Princeton University.
Lisa Perez Jackson (born February 8, 1962) is an American chemical engineer who served as the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2013.
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