Our Governing Board is made up of 13 voting members and 3 non-voting members. Meetings are held quarterly, and members of the public are invited to attend.
Board Chair
Terrence O'Brien
Public Member, Governor's Appointment
California Natural Resources Agency
Wade Crowfoot
Secretary
Lisa Lien-Mager
Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildfire Resilience, Designee for Secretary
Department of Finance
Joe Stephenshaw
Director
Michele Perrault
Legislative Director, Designee for Director
Local Government Appointments
Our service area is divided into six subregions, each represented on the Board by a county supervisor (selected by the county).
Ed Valenzuela
Siskiyou County Supervisor
Northern Representative (Modoc, Siskiyou, Trinity, Shasta, and Lassen counties)
Dwight Ceresola
Plumas County Supervisor
North Central Representative (Tehama, Butte, Plumas, and Sierra counties)
Cindy Gustafson
Placer County Supervisor
Central Representative (Yuba, Nevada, Placer, and El Dorado counties)
Brian Oneto
Amador County Supervisor
South Central Representative (Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, and Mariposa counties)
Phillip Peters
Kern County Supervisor
Southern Representative (Madera, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties)
Jeff Griffiths
Inyo County Supervisor
Eastern Representative (Alpine, Mono, and Inyo counties)
Governor’s Appointments
John Brissenden
Public Member
Heather Bernikoff
Public Member
Legislative Appointments
Bob Johnston
Senate Rules Committee Appointee
Victoria Rome
Speaker of the Assembly Appointee
Non-Voting Liaison Advisors
Elizabeth Berger
U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture's Appointee
Jim Richardson
National Park Service, U.S. Secretary of the Interior's Appointee
Christopher Heppe
Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Secretary of the Interior's Appointee