Candidate for
Director; Sacramento Suburban Water District; Division 5

EDUCATION______________________________________

J.D. With Honors, Boalt Hall School of Law; Associate Editor, California Law Review; Advisor, Appellate Advocacy Course; University of California, Berkeley, California, 1979

B.A. Public Policy Sciences, with Honors; Alice M. Baldwin Scholar; Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1976

ADMITTED________________________________________

1979, New Mexico; 1988, California; 2004, U.S. Supreme Court; also eligible to practice before U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT_______________________________________

American Bar Association, Section on Energy, Environment and Resources (SEER), Active on Endangered Species, Water, In-house Counsel Committees Dignity Health/Mercy Foundation, Board of Trustees, Member The Forest Foundation, Board of Directors, Chair CalExpo, Board of Directors, Agricultural Advisory Council Wine and Ag Gala Committees Unity of Sacramento, Platform Assistant Monterey Jazz Festival Lyons Jazz Leaders

Previously served on the Carmichael Water District Board of Directors, the State Reclamation Board; appointed to serve as a lawyer delegate of the Eastern District to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference; appointed to the Bay-Delta Advisory Council for the CALFED water resources program; planned, facilitated and/or served as speaker for various legal panel presentations on water and endangered species issues.

POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS__________________________________

Fellow, Class XI, American Leadership Forum, Mountain Valley Chapter Fellow, Class XXII, California Agricultural Leadership Program

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE_______________________________________

Present: Principal, The Brenda Davis Law Group, which was formed to strategically position each client's interests from a long-term legal and political perspective and to use the firm founder's extensive experience assisting clients in natural resources cultivation, management and protection, environmental compliance matters, and administrative record development and preservation issues. Provide effective advocacy, negotiations and litigation as necessary in the service of each client's concerns with environmental compliance and any necessary permitting or regulatory challenges at all levels of government interaction as well as challenges by non-profit or for-profit interests.

Work History: Completed water rights analyses of water available for property development; assisted in planning and implementation of water rights transfers; participated in State Water Resources Control Board Bay-Delta water quality hearings on salinity and temperature control; worked on water-related litigation matters and Endangered Species Act administrative processes.

Assisted in compliance counseling, legislative advocacy and administrative agency representation concerning local, state and federal regulations and laws, including water rights and water quality, toxic waste disposal and cleanup, air quality and public health risk disclosures. Experiences included coordinating environmental due diligence in real estate transactions, Subchapter 15 closure requirements analysis, air quality standards evaluations, hazard communications requirements counseling, and implementation of ballot initiatives

Specific San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Experience: Ms. Davis's experience with Bay-Delta issues is varied and quite extensive: dating back to her early 1980s work leading an integrated team of biologists, engineers, planners, modelers, and contract specialists providing input on the D-1485 water quality standard setting proceedings before the State Water Resources Control Board; continuing with negotiating on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation the Suisun Marsh Preservation Agreement and the final stages of the Coordinated Operations Agreement, both codified as Public Law 99-546, legislation she assisted in drafting; continuing her work into the 1990s and 2000s by helping clients to interpret and implement the COA provisions, including the wheeling, surplus water and sharing formulas among the CVP, SWP and water contractors to address salinity control, drought and habitat concerns; joining another team in private practice to complete a $43,000,000 contract with the Bureau of Reclamation for a National Environmental Policy Act Programmatic Environmental Impact Analysis of hotly contested Central Valley Project water supply and contracting issues; working on Bay-Delta water-related litigation matters and federal Endangered Species Act administrative processes; moving forward to help resolve Bay-Delta concerns as the California Farm Bureau's Managing Counsel and representative on CalFed issues; returning to private practice to work on Bay-Delta science-based water management and permit compliance matters.