 | Lisa P. Jackson born February 8, 1962 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and adopted a few weeks later Lisa was raised in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. |
On October 24, 2008, Governor Corzine announced that Jackson would take over as his Chief of Staff, effective December 1, 2008, succeeding Bradley Abelow. As Chief of Staff she served as Governor Corzine's top advisor, is his chief liaison to the State Legislature, oversees the operation of all state operations and handles political liaison for the governor. In New Jersey, the Chief of Staff to the Governor is recognized as the second most powerful position in state government. Jackson is the third woman and the first African American to hold the post of Chief of Staff to the Governor.
| Ms. Jackson was sworn in to office on February 28, 2006 as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), |
During her time in that job, the state began conducting compliance sweeps to crack down on polluters in environmentally ravaged sections of Camden and Paterson, ended its controversial bear hunt and unveiled a plan to reduce carbon emissions 20 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.
Before her nomination by Governor Corzine, Jackson served as the DEP’s Assistant Commissioner for Land Use Management. Under her leadership, the DEP crafted regulatory standards for implementing the landmark Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act.
Upon joining DEP, Jackson served as Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Compliance and Enforcement. As the department’s chief environmental enforcer, Jackson led pioneering compliance sweeps in Camden, NJ and Paterson, NJ where families live in close proximity to regulated facilities. Working with the county officials, State Police and EPA, DEP mobilized more than 200 inspectors to conduct more than 2,100 compliance investigations and issued more than 500 violations in the two cities.
Prior to joining DEP, Jackson served for 16 years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), initially at its headquarters in Washington and more recently at its regional office in New York City. During her tenure at the EPA, Jackson worked in the federal Superfund site remediation program developing key hazardous waste cleanup regulations, overseeing hazardous waste cleanup projects throughout central New Jersey and directing multimillion-dollar cleanup operations. She later served as deputy director and acting director of the region’s enforcement division.
Jackson currently serves on several boards and committees, including the NJ Outdoor Women's League, Inc., New Jersey Sustainable State Institute, New Jersey Development Council, NJ Intergovernmental Protection Commission, the Executive Committee of the Natural Resources Leadership Council of the States, the Board of Trustees for Prosperity NJ, FIX DMV and the Governor's Intergovernmental Relations Commission, in addition to serving as Chair of the Ozone Transport Commission and Vice Chair of the Environmental Council of the State’s Compliance Committee. The New Jersey Conference of Mayors named Jackson the 2007 Cabinet Member of the Year.
As a native of New Orleans, Jackson was first in her class at St. Mary’s Dominican High School, she earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Tulane University’s School of Chemical Engineering.
Jackson resides in East Windsor. She is married to Kenny Jackson and is the proud mother of two wonderful sons, Marcus and Brian. An avid cook, her signature dish — gumbo — is a tribute to her Louisiana roots.
WHY LISA JACKSON SHOULD NOT RUN EPA by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
- Cases in which public health was endangered due to DEP malfeasance, including one case involving a day-care center in a former thermometer factory in which DEP failed to warn parents or workers for months about mercury contamination;
- Rising levels of water pollution, contamination of drinking water supplies and poisoning of wildlife with no cogent state response; and
- The state hazardous waste clean-up program under Ms. Jackson was so mismanaged that the Bush EPA had to step in and assume control of several Superfund sites.
- Invoking “executive privilege” to block a request filed by PEER under the state Open Public Records Act for a copy of her schedule and sign-in logs;
- Pushing to privatize pollution control through outsourcing of toxic clean-ups to industry;
- Abolishing the DEP Division of Science & Research after it produced damning reports on continuing contamination following state-supervised clean-ups.
- DEP failed to meet its first major statutory milestone in implementing the emission reduction goals of the highly touted Global Warming Response Act. A June 30th legal deadline for producing a plan identifying the legislative and regulatory “measures necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” still has not been met. At the same time, Ms. Jackson supported and Gov. Jon Corzine signed “The Permit Extension Act” which exempts thousands of projects from any new energy conservation, efficiency or requirements for solar heating or renewable energy;
- New Jersey missed the historic first auction of greenhouse gas pollution allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, this September because DEP was unable to adopt regulations to implement the pollution trading program that underpinned the auction; and
- Jackson proposed a cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that will do little to combat global warming because it sets emissions caps above current levels and contains numerous complex offsets and loopholes that undercut its effectiveness.
- NJDEP - Office of the Commissioner: Lisa P. Jackson
- Biographical information on Lisa Jackson - International Herald Tribune
- he New Team - Lisa P. Jackson - Series - NYTimes.com
- Lisa P. Jackson
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