New Regents

More catching up. Governor Newsom announced new Regents appointments last month:

Elaine E. Batchlor, M.D., 64, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the University of California Board of Regents. Batchlor has been Chief Executive Officer at MLK Community Healthcare since 2012. She was Chief Medical Officer at L.A. Care Health Plan from 2004 to 2012, and Vice President and Program Officer at the California Health Care Foundation from 1999 to 2003. Batchlor is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the boards of the California Hospital Association, Insure the Uninsured Project, and the Editorial Board of Health Affairs. Batchlor earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health degree from UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. This position requires Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Batchlor is a Democrat.

Carmen Chu, 44, of San Francisco, has been appointed to the University of California Board of Regents. Chu is City Administrator for the City and County of San Francisco. She served as the elected Assessor-Recorder from 2013 to 2021, District 4 Supervisor at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2007 to 2013 and served in the Mayor’s Office of Public Policy and Finance from 2004 to 2007. Chu earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley. This position requires Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Chu is a Democrat.

Ana Matosantos, 46, of Sacramento, has been appointed to the University of California Board of Regents. Matosantos has been Cabinet Secretary in the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom since 2019. She was President of Matosantos Consulting from 2013 to 2018 and joined the Newsom transition team in 2018. Matosantos was Director of the California Department of Finance from 2009 to 2013 and Chief Deputy Director for Budgets from 2008 to 2009. She was Deputy Legislative Secretary for Health and Human Services and Veteran Affairs in the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2007 to 2008. She served in several positions at the California Health and Human Services Agency, including Assistant Secretary for Programs and Fiscal Affairs and Associate Secretary for Legislative Affairs from 2004 to 2007. Matosantos was Human Services Consultant at the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review from 2002 to 2004. She was a Consultant at the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services from 2000 to 2002. She was a California Senate Fellow from 1999 to 2000. This position requires Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Matosantos is a Democrat.*

Mark Robinson, 57, of Kentfield, has been appointed to the University of California Board of Regents. Robinson has been a Partner at Centerview Partners since 2009. Previously, he worked at Merrill Lynch & Co. from 1998 to 2009. Robinson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, the Board of Trustees of the UC Berkeley Foundation and the Board of the Thacher School.** He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. This position requires Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Robinson is registered without party preference.

Full news release at https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/07/22/governor-newsom-announces-higher-education-appointments-7-22-22/.

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*Note: We will have two former state budget directors on the Board of Regents since Regent Cohen is also a former budget director.

**Some readers may recall that the Thacher School had a major sexual abuse scandal: 

https://www.thacher.org/explore/special-committee-report. Just when the School was recovering from that scandal, a new one came to light:

https://nypost.com/2022/03/29/elite-thacher-school-is-hit-again-with-sexual-abuse-allegations/.