California executive branch
The California executive branch consists of elected officers and other offices and officers. The elected executive officers are:
Gavin Newsom (D)
Lieutenant Governor
Xavier Becerra (D)
Attorney General
John Chiang (D)
State Treasurer
Dave Jones (D)
Insurance Commissioner
Tom Torlakson (D)
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Total number of employees is 227,536 excluding California State Universities. In 2004, there were 4,462 job classifications, many of which had no employees occupying the position, as a workaround for certain hiring practices. As part of a civil service reform initiative beginning in 2013, 700 job titles were eliminated.
Two agencies, the California Department of Human Resources and the California State Personnel Board, oversee the state's civil service system. The duties which apply to one agency versus the other is not always entirely clear.
In 1973, then-Governor Jerry Brown requested a report on the State's personnel system from the Little Hoover Commission, an independent government oversight agency, which resulted in several recommendations of which some were implemented, including the creation of the California Department of Human Resources but others recommendations such as the dissolution of the California State Personnel Board were not. In the 1980s, a recommendations to decentralize hiring to departments was implemented.
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