Scott Lichtig, Deputy Secretary for Environmental Policy
Scott Lichtig, of Sacramento, has been appointed Deputy Secretary of Environmental Policy and Emergency Response at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Lichtig has served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General’s Office since 2013. He was Associate General Counsel at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency from 2009 to 2013 and an Associate at Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP from 2007 to 2009. He was Contracts & Grants Counsel for the University of California, San Francisco in 2007 and a Law Clerk at Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker from 2005 to 2006. Lichtig earned a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy from Stanford University.