Primary Job Title Senior Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Primary Organization 
U.S. Department of the Interior
Location Sacramento, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Female
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Janea A. Scott is the Senior Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals at U.S. Department of the Interior. She was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown as Commissioner in February 2013. She filled the Public Member position on the five-member Commission where four of the five members by law are required to have professional training
in specific areas - engineering or physical science, environmental protection, economics, and law. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Scott worked at the Department of the Interior in the Office of the Secretary as the Deputy Counselor for Renewable Energy and as the Special Assistant to the Counselor to the Secretary. In that role, Ms. Scott worked on facilitating and implementing Secretary Ken Salazar's priorities for the Department, including establishing an enduring program for renewable energy on our nation's public lands.
Before joining the Interior team in April of 2009, Ms. Scott worked on clean air issues as a senior attorney at Environmental Defense Fund - a non-profit organization that partners with businesses, governments, and communities to find practical environmental solutions - in both the New York and Los Angeles offices. Ms. Scott was an AmeriCorps member working at the San Francisco Urban Service Project from 1996 until 1997. Ms. Scott received her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Colorado Law School and her Masters and Bachelors of Science in Earth Systems from Stanford University.
