Sonia F. Crow

Biography
[EPA press release - September 21, 1981]

Sonia F. Crow was sworn in today as regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, by EPA Deputy Administrator John W. Hernandez. She assumes the management of EPA affairs in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and the Pacific Islands of Guam, American Samoa, Northern Marianas and Trust Territories.

"Mrs. Crow brings to this new position environmental legal experience in private practice and with local government," said Hernandez. "We expect to benefit greatly from her experience."

Mrs. Crow, 39, was in private law practice with two Los Angeles firms for five years, first with Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn and Rossi until 1978, and then with Astor, Phillips and Sovoian. She specialized in litigation, corporate counseling, and negotiations, including legal challenges on environmental issues.

From 1962 to 1976, Mrs. Crow was deputy city attorney in Los Angeles. She was a key advisor to city officials, boards and commissions on such issues as land use, zoning, and air pollution, including transportation control strategies.

Between 1969 and 1972, Mrs. Crow was an assistant attorney general for the state of Washington, representing the Department of Labor and Industries.

She was legal counsel in 1980 for the Heritage Division of the Reagan-Bush California Committee, which was responsible for ethnic affairs. She also directed the Armenian-Americans Committee in California during the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign.

Mrs. Crow, a native of Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Los Angeles, earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Lost Angeles in 1964 and her law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, in 1967. Her husband heads a research and development company in Los Angeles. They reside in Pacific Palisades, California.

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