New DEP Commissioner Appointed    Bradley M. Campbell, 40, was recently appointed Commissioner of the DEP. Mr. Campbell will use his new post to strengthen New Jersey's environmental laws and improve the quality of our state's natural resources.

Campbell was a visiting professor at University of North Carolina's Law School where he taught classes on natural resources and the environment, property rights and the constitution, and contracts. In 1999, he was also appointed by President Bill Clinton to work at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Regional Administrator for the Mid-Atlantic Region where he was responsible for leading, implementing and enforcing federal environmental laws; addressed lead contamination in Philadelphia schools, worked on smart growth pilot projects and negotiated a new agreement to strengthen protection of the Chesapeake Bay. Before this, he was the Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality where he was responsible for all toxic and environmental protection matters from 1995-1999. In this position, he negotiated a 1996 landmark agreement affecting New Jersey that strengthened ocean protection while ensuring that needed port development could go forward. From 1990-1994 he was an attorney-advisor for the U. S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division where he was responsible for trial and appellate litigation and advised client agencies and the Assistant Attorney General on a range of environmental issues.

Campbell earned his J.D. in 1987 from University of Chicago Law School and his B.A. in History from Amherst College in 1983. Campbell currently serves as Board Chairman of Echo Hill Outdoor School, Inc, a nonprofit organization which provides residential environmental education programs to school children in the Chesapeake Bay area. He is also on the Board of Directors of Common Ground Community, Inc., a nonprofit organization which provides housing, social services and job training to mentally ill, low-income and formerly homeless persons. In February 2000, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve as Commissioner on the Ohio River Valley Sanitary Commission, which protects water quality on the Ohio River.