[Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.]
Suhasini Patel, 56, of El Dorado Hills, has been appointed assistant deputy director of the Site Mitigation and Brownfields Reuse Program at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Patel has served as environmental program manager at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control since 2016, where she has served in several positions since 2007, including chief of the Special Projects Unit, chief of the Research and Policy Development Unit and hazardous substances scientist.
She was project chemist at TetraTech Environmental Management Inc. from 2005 to 2007, information technology services manager at Entech Analytical Laboratories from 2003 to 2005 and information systems department manager at Therma Corporation from 1997 to 2003.
Patel earned a Master of Science degree in microbiology from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $153,192.
Patel is a Democrat.
