Biographical information on EPA’s Lisa Jackson
By APSaturday, January 9, 2010
Biographical information on EPA’s Lisa Jackson
NAME — Lisa P. Jackson.
AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION — 47; Feb. 8, 1962; Philadelphia.
EXPERIENCE — Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, 2009-present; member of President-elect Barack Obama’s energy and natural resources transition team; chief of staff, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, 2008; commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 2006-08; assistant commissioner for land use management, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 2005; assistant commissioner for compliance and enforcement, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 2002-05; Environmental Protection Agency, 16 years.
EDUCATION — Bachelor’s degree, Tulane University’s School of Chemical Engineering; master’s degree in chemical engineering, Princeton University.
FAMILY — Husband, Kenny; two sons, Marcus and Brian.
QUOTE — “It’s about me trying to figure out what I would like people to say about the Lisa Jackson EPA when I’m done. And I want them to say you know, ‘She really opened that agency up, she really made ways that have lived past her for that agency to speak to people of color, to speak to the poor, and to make sure their issues are taken into account.’” — Jackson, the first black EPA head, discussing in a recent Associated Press interview how she would like her tenure to be remembered.
