Metropolitan Water District Watch: Jeffrey Kightlinger New CEO/General Manager?
Flap has learned through MWD sources that Jeffrey Kightlinger, Metropolitan Water District General Counsel has been selected as MWD’s new CEO/General Manager. A formal announcement is pending while an employment contract is negotiated with the MWD Board of Directors.
Jeffrey Kightlinger is general counsel for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. As general counsel, Kightlinger is responsible for directing Metropolitan’s legal staff and consulting attorneys; leading the district’s legal strategies in pending and potential litigation; and protecting Metropolitan’s interests in all legal matters.
Before becoming general counsel, Kightlinger represented Metropolitan in environmental issues and water right matters. At Metropolitan he worked primarily on Colorado River matters, water rights issues and a number of the district’s water transfer and storage programs. Prior to joining Metropolitan in 1995, Kightlinger worked in private practice representing numerous public agencies including municipalities, redevelopment agencies and special districts.
Kightlinger spent a year specializing in environmental law at George Washington University in Washington D.C., while working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and his law degree from the University of Santa Clara.
Mr. Kightlinger will be replacing Dennis Underwood who passed away in November 2005.
Certainly this is a better pick than former Democrat Assemblyman Richard Katz.
Katz would have been a DISASTER for the MWD because of his involvement with Keith Brackpool and Cadiz Real Estate.
Stay tuned for the formal announcement.
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