Title:
Assistant Executive Director, Office of Governmental Affairs
Organization:
California Energy Commission
Biography:
Barry Steinhart is the assistant executive director of the Office of Governmental Affairs at the California Energy Commission. The office’s role is to maintain a cooperative relationship between the Energy Commission, the Administration, and the members and staff of the California Legislature.
Steinhart served as senior staff to a California state senator and a Speaker Pro Tempore of the State Assembly. He was a founding partner of a law firm in New York after serving as an associate at the law firms Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman and Proskauer Rose. He has a bachelor’s degree and a law degree from the University of Michigan.
He lives in Plumas Lake with his husband, James Purcell.
Category:
Speaker
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