Governor Newsom Announces Appointments

 SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oct. 28 and Nov. 2 respectively, announced the following appointments:

Thomas Giandomenico, 55, of Los Angeles, has been reappointed to the Emergency Medical Services Commission, where he has served since 2019. Giandomenico has been a Commander at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department since 1990. He was rank E-4 in the U.S. Army from 1985 to 1989. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Giandomenico is a Republican.

Andrea Ambriz, 39, of Los Angeles, has been appointed general manager of Exposition Park. Ambriz has been deputy secretary of external affairs at the California Natural Resources Agency since 2020. She was chief operating officer and a consultant at River LA from 2019 to 2020. She was chief of staff at SEIU Local 2015 from 2017 to 2019 and deputy director of private sector engagement in the White House office of public engagement from 2015 to 2016. She held multiple positions in the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2011 to 2014, including director of policy and strategic engagement for the myRA program in the Office of Domestic Finance, acting deputy assistant secretary for international affairs in the office of legislative affairs, special assistant for appropriations and international affairs in the office of legislative affairs and consultant to the office of financial education and consumer policy in the office of domestic finance. Ambriz was a legislative aide in the California State Legislature from 2005 to 2009. She is a member of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Board of Commissioners and serves on the Upper Los Angeles River and Tributaries working group within the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. She earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $189,636. Ambriz is a Democrat.

Michael Ong, 50, of Santa Monica, has been reappointed to the tobacco education and research oversight committee, where he has served since 2007. Ong has been a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since 2005. He has been hospitalist section chief at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System since 2018, where he has been a staff physician since 2013. He was a veterans affairs ambulatory care fellow at Stanford University and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto from 2003 to 2005. Ong was a resident physician at the University of California, San Francisco from 2000 to 2003. He is a member of AcademyHealth, the American College of Physicians, the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Society of Hospital Medicine and the California Medical Association. Ong earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Services and Policy Analysis from the University of California, Berkeley. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Ong is a Democrat.