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Lisa Perez Jackson〔Phillips, Kate. ("More Obama Cabinet Nominees Confirmed" ), ''The New York Times'', January 22, 2009, retrieved on January 23, 2009.〕 (born February 8, 1962) is an American chemical engineer who served as the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2013. In May 2013, it was announced that Jackson would be joining Apple Inc. as their environmental director.〔("Lisa Jackson To Join Apple After Serving As EPA Chief" ), ''Huff Post'', 29 May 2013〕 Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jackson is a graduate of Tulane University and Princeton University. She began working as a staff-level engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency in 1987; later moving to the EPA's regional office in New York City, where she spent the majority of her 16-year EPA career. She joined the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in 2002, working as the assistant commissioner of compliance and enforcement and as the assistant commissioner for land use management. In 2006, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine appointed Jackson the state's Commissioner of Environmental Protection. Jackson also briefly served as Corzine's Chief of Staff in late 2008. On December 15, 2008, the President-elect Barack Obama nominated Jackson as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, she was confirmed by the Senate and took office on January 23, 2009. During her tenure, Jackson oversaw stricter fuel efficiency standards; the EPA's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; authorized carbon dioxide as a public health threat, granting the EPA authority to set new regulations regarding CO2 emissions; and laid out a failed plan to set stricter smog pollution limits by amending the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. In December 2012, Jackson announced she would be stepping down as EPA Administrator, a move which took effect on February 15, 2013; she was succeeded by Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe, who became Acting Administrator pending Senate confirmation of Gina McCarthy on July 18, 2013 as a permanent successor. ==Early life, education and family== Lisa Jackson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was adopted weeks after her birth. She grew up in Pontchartrain Park, a predominantly African-American middle-class neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1979, Jackson graduated as valedictorian from Saint Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans.〔Biographical information. ("About Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson" ), New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, accessed December 12, 2008.〕 She received a scholarship from the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering & Science due to her strong performance in mathematics. This allowed her to gain early exposure to a college environment. She attended Tulane University with a scholarship from Shell Oil Company.〔 A dean at the Tulane School of Engineering got her interested in that discipline as an academic path, and she graduated ''summa cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1983.〔 Jackson then earned her Master of Science degree, also in chemical engineering, from Princeton University in 1986. Jackson's mother was living in New Orleans at the time Hurricane Katrina flooded the city in 2005, and Jackson drove her out of the city.〔Tilove, Jonathan. ( "Obama taps New Orleans native Lisa Jackson to lead Environmental Protection Agency" ). ''The Times-Picayune'', December 15, 2009, retrieved January 23, 2009〕 Jackson is married to Kenneth Jackson and is the mother of two children.〔 Jackson has been a resident of East Windsor Township, New Jersey, along with her husband and two sons.〔Kocieniewski, David. ("The New Team: Lisa P. Jackson" ), ''The New York Times'', December 11, 2008. Accessed December 3, 2012. "She lives with her husband, Kenny Jackson, and their two sons in East Windsor, N.J."〕 On July 13, 2013 she was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta sorority as an honorary member, during their Centennial Celebration in Washington, DC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lisa P. Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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