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