DeeDee D’Adamo, of Modesto, was reappointed to the Partnership Board in June 2013 where she has served since May 2007. D’Adamo was most recently appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Water Resources Control Board. She previously served on the California Air Resources Board from 1999-2013 under the Brown, Schwarzenegger and Davis administrations, where she was instrumental in the board’s air quality and climate change programs and regulations. D’Adamo has served in various capacities for members of Congress from the San Joaquin Valley over a 20-year period, working primarily on environmental, water and agricultural legislative policy.

She currently serves on the Valley Coalition for UC Merced’s Medical School. D’Adamo was a visiting lecturer at the California State University, Stanislaus Department of Politics from 1992-1998 and an associate in a Modesto law firm working primarily on juvenile delinquency and dependency cases. D’Adamo earned a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Davis in 1982, and a Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1986.