Alice Dowdin Calvillo

For more than 30 years, Alice Dowdin Calvillo has dedicated her career to public service at both the State and Local level. Ms. Dowdin Calvillo currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of a civil service commission for one of the top ten counties in California. Appointed in January 2013, she is the sixth CEO of the 80-year-old quasi-judicial body responsible for policy direction, oversite, and adjudication of the classification and merit system for the selection, promotion and retention of civil service employees within the county. In January 2008, Ms. Dowdin Calvillo was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), where she served as Chair of the quasi-judicial agency charged with adjudicating eight collective bargaining statutes covering most public sector employees with the State of California. From 2005 to 2008, Ms. Dowdin Calvillo served in several cabinet-level positions to Governor Schwarzenegger, including as his Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Chief Deputy Appointments Secretary. Before joining the Governor’s senior staff, she was Governor Schwarzenegger’s appointed Legislative Director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Governor Pete Wilson appointed Ms. Dowdin Calvillo as Chief Advisor to the California Integrated Waste Management Board in early 1998, and prior to that, she was his appointment as Deputy Director of Legislation and Operations to the Managed Health care Improvement Task Force. Ms. Dowdin Calvillo also served as the Chief Consultant to the California State Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee in the mid-1990s. Before joining the Assembly staff, Ms. Dowdin Calvillo served in a

variety of senior analytical positions within State civil services. Ms. Dowdin Calvillo was elected to two consecutive terms on the Auburn City Council from

1998 to 2005 and was Mayor in 2001 and 2005. During her tenure on the City Council, Ms. Dowdin Calvillo served on several commissions and committees, including the Placer County Economic Development Board (where she also served as Chair), Board of Directors for the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Regional Wastewater Treatment and Storage Facility Joint Powers Authority, and Local Agency Formation Commission for Placer County. In addition, she was a member of the Sacramento Regional Advisory Board for the Great Valley Center. The Placer County Board of Supervisors appointed Ms. Dowdin Calvillo as the District 3 representative on the Placer County Parks Commission in 1997, where she served as its Chair in 1999 and 2000. Since 2015, Ms. Dowdin Calvillo has sat on the Auburn City Planning Commission as well as the Auburn Historic Review Design Committee, where she currently serves as Chair. She was appointed to the Rocklin Academy School Board of Directors in August of 2016.

Ms. Dowdin Calvillo obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science-Public Service and in German from the University of California, Davis. She and her husband are the proud parents of one child who attends one of the Rocklin Academy Family of Schools. She is an avid trail runner and enjoys spending time with her family.