10 Questions for Lisa Jackson

Advancement
Jackson began her career immediately after graduate school with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For 16 years she worked in the federal Superfund site remediation program, developing and overseeing numerous hazardous waste cleanup projects throughout central New Jersey. In March 2002, Jackson joined the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) as assistant commissioner of compliance and enforcement and in 2005, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, elevated her to the post of Commissioner. A few short years later, then President-elect Barack Obama asked her to join his environmental and energy transition team, and on December 15, she was officially nominated to be Administrator of the EPA. In the above photograph, Jackson sits along side of President Obama during a briefing about the situation along the Gulf Coast following the BP oil spill in Venice, LA on May 2, 2010.