NJDEP

Governor McGreevey has announced that Bradley M. Campbell will be the new Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. President Clinton appointed Campbell EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator, which includes Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Campbell previously was Associate Director for Toxics and Environmental Protection for the White House Council on Environmental Quality ("CEQ"). CEQ serves as the principal advisor to the President and Vice President on environmental policy, and coordinates the work of federal agencies on environmental matters. At the CEQ, Campbell helped develop President Clinton's brownfields initiative, negotiated Superfund issues with Congress, and led reforms of hazardous waste laws and of environmental liability for lenders. He was the White House's lead representative to the 104th Congress in amending the Safe Drinking Water Act and in enacting the Food Quality Protection Act and pipeline safety reforms. He also developed and coordinated President Clinton's initiatives for reinventing environmental regulations, enhancing wetlands protection, and ensuring the public's right to know about environmental hazards.

Prior to his White House service, he was an attorney-advisor in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U. S. Department of Justice. During his service at Justice, Campbell served as lead counsel in several prominent cases, and in 1993, Campbell received the Arthur Fleming Award for distinguished government service, which is based on a national competition. In that year, he also received the John Marshall Award, theJustice Department's highest honor.

Following graduation from Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School, Campbell had an active criminal and civil litigation practice that included extensive representation of environmental organizations concerned with the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Campbell co-founded the Common Ground Community Housing Development Co. In New York City.

A graduate of Amherst College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1983) and the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1987), where he was an editor of the Law Review, Campbell clerked for the Honorable Carl McGowan of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.