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Christine Todd Whitman

American politician and author (born 1946)

Christine Todd Whitman

Official portrait as Administrator of the EPA, 2001

Incumbent

Assumed office
July 28, 2022

Serving with Andrew Yang and Michael S. Willner

Preceded byPosition established
In office
January 31, 2001 – June 27, 2003
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byCarol Browner
Succeeded byMike Leavitt
In office
January 18, 1994 – January 31, 2001
Preceded byJames Florio
Succeeded byDonald DiFrancesco
In office
February 10, 1988 – January 16, 1990
Preceded byBarbara A. Curran
Succeeded byScott Weiner
In office
January 1, 1983 – January 29, 1988
Preceded byDoris W. Dealaman
Succeeded byKip Bateman
Born

Christine Temple Todd


(1946-09-26) September 26, 1946 (age 78)
New York City, U.S.
Political partyForward (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations		Republican (until 2022)
Spouse

John Whitman

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Christine Todd Whitman

Fall 2002 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics

*On September 19, 2002, Christine Todd Whitman presented the lecture "The Political Environment for Women in 2002."

Christine Todd Whitman served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as head of the Environmental Protection Agency from January, 2001 to June, 2003. Before that, she was the fiftieth governor of the State of New Jersey, serving as its first woman governor from 1994 to 2001.

The youngest of four children in an affluent family active in Republican politics, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in government from Wheaton College in 1968. She then worked as an outreach worker for the Republican National Committee, a staff member of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City.

In 1982, Whitman was elected to the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders (county commissioners), where she served until 1988 when Gov. Thomas Kean appointed her to the state Board of Public Utilities. In 1990, she resigned to run for the U.S. Sena

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Christie Todd Whitman
Former Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator
www.epa.gov

Christie Whitman was sworn in as EPA Administrator on January 31, 2001. Prior to that, Whitman served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey.

In testimony before the U.S. Senate on January 17, Whitman said she believed environmental and economic goals go hand in hand and that she would continue her record of working to forge strong partnerships among citizens, government and business to produce measurable environmental results of cleaner air, water and land.

As governor of New Jersey, Whitman developed a strong environmental record, providing cleaner air, water and land than when she was first elected in November 1993. Under her environmental leadership, New Jersey's air became significantly cleaner. The number of days New Jersey violated the federal one-hour air quality standard for ground level ozone dropped from 45 in 1988 to four in 2000. The state is on target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels.

New Jersey's waterways, coasts and ocean waters also became sig

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