VENTURA : Buena High Grad Named to State Post
Gov. Pete Wilson has appointed Ventura native and Buena High School graduate Kathleen M. Shanahan deputy secretary for business development at the newly formed California Trade and Commerce Agency.
The governor announced Shanahan’s appointment to the $88,056-a-year post Tuesday, Shanahan’s first day on the job, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office said.
Wilson created the agency recently by merging the Department of Commerce with the World Trade Commission and the state’s overseas trade offices. The Cabinet-level agency is charged with leading the state’s economic development efforts.
Shanahan, who now lives in Sacramento, will coordinate economic development and job creation efforts to jobs among the agency’s four regional offices.
A 1981 graduate of UC San Diego, Shanahan, 33, is a Republican with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and biochemistry.
Between 1989 and 1992, she served as senior vice president of the Wexler Group, a public affairs and governmental relations consulting firm in Washington. Most recently, she was a California coordinator, based in Sacramento, for the campaign to reelect President Bush.
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