Nancy Sutley
| Nancy Sutley | |
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| Chairperson of the Council on Environmental Quality | |
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In office January 22, 2009 – February, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | James Connaughton |
| Succeeded by | Michael Boots |
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| Born |
April 20, 1962 New York City, New York, United States |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University Harvard University |
Nancy Helen Sutley led the White House Council on Environmental Quality. She was confirmed by the United States Senate through unanimous consent January 22, 2009. In her role as chair, she served as the principal environmental policy advisor to the president. The Council on Environmental Quality coordinates federal environmental efforts and works with agencies other than White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives.
Prior to being confirmed by the Senate to lead the CEQ, Sutley served as deputy mayor for Energy and Environment in Los Angeles, California, and as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's appointment to the board of directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Mayor Villaraigosa turned to her to achieve his goal of transforming L.A. into one of the greenest big cities in America. As a result, Sutley retrofitted 500 of the city's oldest buildings to make them more energy efficient and imposed environmental standards on new large communities.
Sutley has committed more than 20 years to protecting public health and the environment and to energy and climate change issues. She has also devoted much of her career to public service.
Sutley announced that she would step down as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality in February, 2014.
In July, 2014, she was appointed as Chief Sustainability and Economic Development Officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Sutley was born April 20, 1962 in New York and was raised in Queens, New York. Her parents came to the United States from Argentina in search of a better life, something that shaped her values of hard work and the importance to giving back to the community. She holds a master of public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an undergraduate B.A. degree in government from Cornell University. During the Clinton Administration, she was an Environmental Protection Agency official, and served as special assistant to the EPA administrator in Washington, D.C. Sutley was the first prominent gay person named to a senior role in the Obama administration.
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