Newsom Reappoints Walnut Creek Resident To 911 Board

SACRAMENTO, CA —Gov. Gavin Newsom announced seven appointments to boards and committees on Monday, three of the appointees are from the Bay Area.

According to a release, Clayton Police Department Chief Elise Warren, of Walnut Creek, has been reappointed to the State 911 Advisory Board, Stanford professor Marc A. Gautreau, of San Francisco, has been appointed to the Emergency Medical Services Commission and Santa Cruz Police Department Chief Andrew G. Mills, of Santa Cruz, has been reappointed to the Board of State and Community Corrections.

Warren, 55, has served on the State 911 Advisory Board since 2019, a position that does not require Senate confirmation or include compensation.

According to Warren, the largest project currently being worked on by the advisory board is upgrading the 911 system to Next Generation 9-1-1.

"Working with the staff at the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to ensure the integrity of the state's 911 system has been a pleasure over the last two years, and I look forward to continuing that work," Warren told Patch.

Prior to taking over as the Clayton chief of police in 2018, Warren spent nearly three decades (1990-2018) in various positions in the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, including deputy sheriff, sergeant, lieutenant, captain and assistant sheriff.

Gautreau, whose role on the Emergency Medical Services Commission does not require Senate confirmation or include compensation, has been a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Stanford University since 2017. He's been an advisor to the California Fire Chiefs Association since 2019, a medical advisor to the San Jose Fire Department since 2017 and a consultant for the San Jose Police Department since 2019.

Between 1997 and 2017, Gautreau held several positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including: associate supervising deputy chief medical office for the National Disaster Medical System and the regional deputy chief medical officer for FEMA Region I (New England).

Gautreau, 57, was a professor and instructor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 2002 to 2017, and held several positions in the U.S. Air Force from 2000 to 2005. Gautreau, who is identified as a Democrat in the press release, also is a member of numerous professional organizations, including: the National Association of EMS Physicians, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Mills,64 has been reappointed to a position on the Board of State and Community Corrections, on which he's served since 2018. The reappointment will require Senate confirmation. Mills became the police chief in Santa Cruz in 2017 after serving as police chief in Eureka from 2013 to 2017.

From 1983 to 2013, Mills held several positions within the San Diego Police Department, including: captain, lieutenant, sergeant and officer.

According to the Newsom administration, Mills is registered without a party preference.