ARB Board Member Biographies - Dorene D'Adamo

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ARB Board Member Biographies

Dorene D'Adamo

Appointed August 1999 by Governor Gray Davis and reappointed August 2004 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the law member to the Air Resources Board (Board). Ms. D'Adamo also serves as chair of the Board's Agriculture Advisory Committee for Air Quality and as a member of the Board's Northern District Regional Coordination Committee.
Ms. D'Adamo is a graduate of the University of California at Davis (B.A. 1982- Political Science / Public Service) and of the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (J.D. 1986).

Following law school, Ms. D'Adamo joined a Modesto, California, law firm as an associate, where she practiced juvenile delinquency and dependency law and criminal law. Ms. D'Adamo has served in a variety of roles within California's criminal justice system. She was appointed as the Assistant Director to the California Department of the Youth Authority (1988-90), served as Legal Counsel to the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety (1986-88), and served as Consultant to the State Legislative Joint Committee on Prison Construction and Operations (1986).
As a visiting lecturer for the California State University, Stanislaus from 1992-1998, Ms. D'Adamo has taught courses for their Department of Politics, ranging from U.S. and California government, environmental policy and land use policy.
Ms. D'Adamo currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. House Representative, Dennis Cardoza (California's 18th Congressional District). In this capacity, Ms. D'Adamo has worked extensively on environmental, water and agricultural legal, legislative and regulatory policy issues.
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