Patrick Henning

Chief Deputy Treasurer at California State Treasurer

Speaker

Patrick Henning joins the State Treasurer’s Office as its new Chief Deputy Treasurer. He returns to public service from his position as Director of Legislative Advocacy for the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. Prior to that, Patrick served the past four Governors of the State of California honorably, including as Director of California’s Employment Development Department, Chief Deputy Appointments Secretary in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Legislative Advocate for the California State Council of Laborers from 2004 to 2011, Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Intergovernmental Affairs at the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency from 2003 to 2004, and as Deputy Director for Legislation at the California Department of Industrial Relations from 2000 to 2003.

From 1999 to 2000, Patrick served as a congressional liaison and special advisor to the President in the Executive Office of President William J. Clinton, Office of Presidential Personnel. He also served as a legislative assistant in the Office of Congressman Vic Fazio from 1996 to 1999 and a legislative intern for California State Assemblymember Hilda Solis from 1994 to 1995.

He was a former Elected Board Secretary and Board of Directors member to the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA). He was an appointed member of the West Sacramento Economic Development Advisory Commission, an appointed member of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission from 2005 to 2011, an appointed member of the California Career Technical Education Standards and Framework Advisory Group in 2003, and an appointed member of the California State Assembly Speaker’s Commission on Labor Education from 2001 to 2010.