Christine Luther Zimmerman

Christine Luther Zimmerman joined the WSPA team in 2018 and serves as a Manager of Regulatory Affairs at WSPA where her focus is on regulatory issues in the areas of water, air, and land use. Christine leads WSPA’s California State Water Committee where her background in water policy and strategic resource management services inform WSPA’s members on a range of issues.

In the area of air quality, Christine serves on-air district committees and is currently focused on issues surrounding emission credit banking systems and State Implementation Plan support. Christine ensures WSPA leverages its technical expertise to the maximum extent to effectively advocate WSPA’s positions in the legislative and regulatory arenas.

Prior to joining WSPA, Christine owned Zimmerman Consulting, providing regulatory affairs services to oil producers in the San Joaquin Valley in the area of produced water management. In that role, she helped develop surface and groundwater salinity policy with the CV-SALTS Executive Committee. Christine earned a Master of Science degree in Geological Engineering from the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno as well as a bachelor’s degree in Geology with a minor in Mathematics from California State University Bakersfield.