Anne Gust Brown
| Anne Gust Brown | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Role: | Former first lady of California |
| Location: | Sacramento, Calif. |
| Affiliation: | Democratic |
| Education: | •Stanford University (B.A., political science, 1980) •University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1983) |
| Website: | Official website |
Anne Gust Brown was the first lady of California from 2011 to 2019 during the administration of former California Governor Jerry Brown (D). She was an executive at Gap, Inc. before entering politics and joining Brown's campaign for Attorney General of California in 2005.
Career
Brown earned a B.A. in political science in 1980 from Stanford University. She earned a J.D. in 1983 from the University of Michigan Law School. She worked at two law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and then Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.[1][2]
She began working for Gap, Inc., in 1991 as an attorney and worked as general counsel from 1994 to 1998. She was Gap, Inc.'s executive vice president of human resources, legal and corporate administration from 1998 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000, global compliance was added to her duties as an executive vice president. In March 2000, Brown became Chief Administrative Officer.[2][1][3]
From 2003 to 2010, Brown served as a director of Jack in the Box Inc.[3]
Marriage Jerry Brown
In 2005, Gust Brown left Gap, Inc. to help run Jerry Brown's's successful campaign for Attorney General of California. In June 2005, she married Brown. Gust Brown was appointed special counsel in the Office of the Governor in January 2011, after her husband became Governor of California. The California Sunday Magazine's Vauhini Vara said that Gust Brown's role was "so all-encompassing that she [was] almost certainly the most powerful gubernatorial first lady in the country."[2][4]
When Brown was asked about his wife's achievements, he said, "Everything that I’ve done has been influenced or helped by her presence and our working together and our being together." The New York Times said Gust Brown "[had] not embraced the ceremonial role that governors’ wives usually play. Instead, she [functioned] as a confidante, quietly consulting with the governor on matters as expansive as the state’s criminal justice system and mundane as hiring and firing staff members."[2][4][5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Linkedin, "Anne Gust," accessed November 2, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr, "First Lady Anne Gust Brown," accessed November 2, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bloomberg Business, "Jack in The Box Inc (JACK:NASDAQ GS)," accessed November 2, 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The California Sunday Magazine, "Special Counsel," June 7, 2015
- ↑ The New York Times, "Don’t Call Her a First Lady; Brown’s Wife Is His Top Aide," November 12, 2013
