The Department of Environmental Protection this week announced the appointment of Jill Gaito as Deputy Secretary DEP’s Office of Community Revitalization and Local Government Support.

Since August of 2006, Jill has served as the Acting Deputy Secretary in the Office of Community Revitalization and Local Government Support and has demonstrated her ability to manage this critical area of the department.

Prior to this, Jill served as the Director of the Brownfields Action Team in the Office of Community Revitalization and Local Government Support where she contributed to the success of many brownfield and redevelopment projects throughout Pennsylvania.

She was employed at Gannett Fleming for 11 years in a variety of technical and management positions before joining the department in January 2005. Jill functioned as the National Risk Assessment Leader for TerraSure Development, LLC, an affiliate of Gannett Fleming that provides guaranteed fixed price remediation to facilitate the economic recovery of environmentally impacted properties. She also worked as technical operations manager for Laboratory Resources Inc. and as a project manager at NUS Environmental Corp.

Gaito holds an MBA from Robert Morris College and a BS in Chemistry from Gannon University.

4/27/2007