Jon Cannon

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Template:Infobox Officeholder1 Jon Cannon is the former Planning Commissioner for the Rio Magisterial District on the Albemarle County Planning Commission. He resigned in January 2009 to take a position in the Obama administration[1]. In February 2009 it was announced that he would become the Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency[2]. Cannon is the Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and director of the law school’s Environmental and Land Use Law Program. He previously served as the general counsel of the EPA from 1995 to 1998. However, Cannon later withdrew his nomination after his membership on the Board of Directors for the America's Clean Water Foundation triggered scrutiny from the EPA's Inspector General[3].


Notes

  1. 'Cannon resigns from Albemarle County Planning Commission; Slutzky to appoint replacement', Charlottesville Tomorrow, January 29, 2009
  2. 'UVA Professor to join EPA under Obama' Daily Progress, February 26, 2009. Retrieved on February 27, 2009
  3. 'Torpedoed: Pork politics and the undoing of an Obama nominee'. 13 Apr. 2009. Lindsay Barnes. The Hook. 4 May 2009.