CEQ Chair
Nancy Sutley is President Barack Obama’s appointment to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Prior to her appointment, she was the Deputy Mayor for Energy and Environment for the city of Los Angeles, California.
As Deputy Mayor, she served on the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California as Chair for the Water Planning and Stewardship Committee and member of the Executive Committee, Special Committee on Bay-Delta, Communications and Legislation Committee, and the IRP Steering Committee.
Sutley worked for California Governor Gray Davis as Energy Advisor, managing state and federal regulations, legislative affairs, finances and press relations. She served as Deputy Secretary for policy and intergovernmental relations in the California EPA from 1999-2003. She advised on water and air pollution policy, and established budget and legislative priorities. During the administration of President William J. Clinton, Sutley worked for the EPA as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Regional Administrator in San Francisco and special assistant to the Administrator in Washington, D.C.
Sutley received her Bachelors degree from Cornell University and her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.
