{"id":3042,"date":"2018-01-18T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/52.10.1.109\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2018-01-31T16:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:09:40","slug":"mitchell-selected-as-new-cwcb-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell selected as new CWCB director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rebecca Mitchell, who played an instrumental role in production of Colorado\u2019s Water Plan, has been named the new director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mitchell, who was selected by the CWCB\u2019s 15-member board, will oversee CWCB\u2019s 45-member staff as it provides statewide policy direction on water issues and continues implementation of the water plan. Mitchell replaces James Eklund, who left recently for private law practice after serving nearly four years as the agency\u2019s director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mitchell previously served as the section chief for CWCB\u2019s Water Supply Planning section, which includes the Office of Water Conservation and Drought Planning and focuses on ensuring sufficient water supplies for Colorado\u2019s citizens and the environment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mitchell has also served as the water policy and issues coordinator within the Colorado Department of Natural Resources\u2019 executive director\u2019s office. Before joining DNR she worked in both the public and private sectors as a consulting engineer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She received her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from the Colorado School of Mines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Mitchell, who played an instrumental role in production of Colorado\u2019s Water Plan, has been named the new director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Mitchell, who was selected by the CWCB\u2019s 15-member board, will oversee CWCB\u2019s 45-member staff as it provides statewide policy direction on water issues and continues implementation of the water plan. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","tag-colorado-water-conservation-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}