Lisa P. Jackson

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Lisa P. Jackson (2009)

Lisa Perez Jackson (born February 8, 1962 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American chemical engineer and environmental politician for the Democratic Party . She has led Apple's environmental protection efforts since 2013 .

From January 2009 to February 2013, she was the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ). She was the first African American woman to hold this post. Previously, she worked for six years at the Environmental Protection Agency of the State of New Jersey (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection). There she was Deputy Commissioner and later Commissioner. Prior to that, she was with the EPA for 16 years .

Family life and education

Lisa Jackson was born in Philadelphia and adopted a few weeks after she was born. She grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans , ( Louisiana ) and graduated from Saint Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans in 1979 as the top of the class. Jackson earned a master's degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University . She graduated summa cum laude at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Tulane University .

Her adoptive mother lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city in 2005. Jackson is married to Kenneth Jackson and has two children.

Career

Early career

Jackson began her career around 1986 with the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) based in Washington, DC. She then moved to their regional office in New York City .

She developed and supervised numerous projects for the elimination of waste in Central New Jersey , for their financial volume of several million dollars, she was also responsible. She later worked first as a deputy director, then as a director of the regional administrative enforcement agency . After 16 years with the EPA , Jackson joined the New Jersey Environmental Protection Agency (DEP) in March 2002, where she was the deputy commissioner for overseeing and enforcing environmental law . In 2005 she was Deputy Commissioner for the areas of land use and spatial planning .

Jackson has led numerous programs including land use , water supply , soil analysis , and drinking water and groundwater investigation and monitoring . Her main focus was on developing a system of incentives for growth in the right places. Under her leadership, the State Department of Environmental Protection developed regulatory standards for the implementation of the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act .

New Jersey's Environment Commissioner

Jon Corzine , Governor of New Jersey , nominated her as Environment Commissioner . In that position, Jackson led a staff of 2,990 state employees who were responsible for protecting, conserving and improving the water, air, and the environment in New Jersey, as well as for the conservation of the state's natural resources .

In addition to running and overseeing government environmental programs , Jackson was also responsible for managing public parks and beaches, as well as fish farming programs, wildlife protection programs, and heritage conservation programs . In July 2006, as commissioner, she had to close all public parks and bathing beaches in the course of public savings and the freeze of subsidies .

As the head of the agency responsible for environmental compliance and enforcement , she enforced environmental protection measures with immediate compulsion in Camden and Paterson , two communities that had long since neglected the health effects of pollution . She launched an environmental initiative after extensive efforts were made to involve the regional administration and local businesses in the program. Working with county government, the New Jersey State Police, and the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection mobilized more than 70 inspectors to conduct more than 1,000 environmental compliance investigations in the two cities, the first in a series Measures to enforce legal regulations.

The environmental magazine Grist interviewed several environmental activists in New Jersey and reported that the opinion about Jackson is divided: "The plan seems to be between those who in the capital of the state in the areas of energy and climate work (the Jackson support) and those who are responsible for the disposal of toxic waste on site (which are critical of it). "

Chief of Staff of the Governor of New Jersey

On October 24, 2008, Corzine announced that Jackson would take over the post of Chief of Staff on December 1, 2008, replacing Bradley Abelow . As chief of staff, Jackson would have been Corzine's main adviser and head of the main political liaison office to the New Jersey state legislature . However, only days after her appointment, Barack Obama asked her to become Head of the EPA . She resigned on December 15, 2008.

Head of the Environmental Protection Agency

On December 15, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama officially proposed Jackson's nomination as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency . It was unanimously approved by the US Senate on January 23, 2009. Jackson is the first African American woman to serve as head of the EPA , the fourth woman and second person from New Jersey to serve.

On December 27, 2012, Lisa Perez Jackson announced her resignation as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. She moved to Apple in the spring of 2013 , where she leads the company's environmental protection efforts.

Web links

Commons : Lisa P. Jackson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography Lisa Jackson About Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson ( September 27, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ), New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, accessed December 12, 2008.
  2. ↑ Tilove, Jonathan. Obama taps New Orleans native Lisa Jackson to lead Environmental Protection Agency . The Times-Picayune, December 15, 2008, last accessed January 23, 2009
  3. ↑ Sheppard, Kate. The Lisa of our concerns: NJ enviros deeply divided over record of Obama's EPA nominee ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.grist.org, January 5, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gristmill.grist.org
  4. ↑ press release. Governor Corzine Names New Chief of Staff , www.nj.gov, October 24, 2008, last accessed October 27, 2008.
  5. ↑ Obama picks NJ official to lead environmental agency , The Star Ledger , December 10, 2008
  6. ↑ Senate confirms Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator , The Star-Ledger , January 23, 2009
  7. ↑ EPO head Lisa P. Jackson to resign post in: Washington Post of December 27, 2012
  8. ↑ Apple CEO Tim Cook's interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at D11: All Things Digital
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Lisa P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Lisa Perez (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, head of the Environmental Protection Agency
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania