Cabinet Agency Environmental Justice and Equity Leads
On January 7, 2022, Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order No. 246 North Carolina's Transformation To A Clean, Equitable Economy which directed Cabinet agencies to designate an environmental justice and equity lead (EJ Lead).
Duties of each EJ Lead include the following:
- Serve as the agency point person for environmental justice efforts,
- Inform development and implementation of the agency public participation plan described in Section 8 of this Executive Order,
- Work with EJ Leads in other agencies to share and coordinate related activities, best practices, and relevant data,
- Identify, describe, and post on a readily available page of the agency's website agency decisions that significantly impact or may significantly impact underserved communities,
- Increase awareness among agency leadership and staff of the history and current impacts of environmental, economic, and racial injustice,
- Take additional actions as appropriate to further the directives of this Executive Order.
Cabinet Agencies Environmental Justice and Equity Leads
- Haley Pfeiffer Haynes - Deputy Secretary of Service Operations, Department of Administration
- Doug Holbrook - Chief Deputy Secretary for Administration, Department of Adult Correction
- Jennifer Mundt - Assistant Secretary of Clean Energy Economic Development Department of Commerce
- Sharon Martin - Deputy of Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of Environmental Quality
- Virginia Guidry - Head of Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Torre Jessup - Chief Operating Officer, Department of Information Technology
- Tracey Burns - Deputy Secretary, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
- Cara Bridges - Director, Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, Department of Public Safety
- McKinley Wooten - Assistant Secretary, Department of Revenue
- Ebony Pittman - Deputy Secretary for Business Administration, Department of Transportation
- Mike Arnold - Deputy Director for Operations, Office of State Budget Management
- Lockhart Taylor - Director of Government Relations, Office of State Human Resources