Eileen sobeck biography
- Sobeck is from Davis, California, but lived in Kenya while attending high school.
- Eileen Sobeck has nearly 40 years of government service, and more than two decades of executive and management experience leading professional staff in complex.
- From 2016 to 2024 he served as a Chief Deputy Director where his responsibilities included water rights, Bay-Delta planning, groundwater.
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Seabirds at the Crossroads
IUCN World Congress 2016 in Hawaii
Trustee Chris Gaskin attended the IUCN World Congress 2016 in Hawaii, and he, together with Karen Baird (BirdLife International/Forest & Bird) were two kiwis participating in the ‘Seabirds at the Crossroads’ Pavilion session during the Forum part of the Congress programme.
In thanking the participants, Lisa Ballance (NOAA) who organised the session, said:
“Our event was remarkable in every way - presentation topics were complimentary and the pieces came together for a truly multidisciplinary whole, messages were clear and direct, and timing was extraordinarily precise. I hope you were all able to see the Standing-Room-Only crowd that assembled prior to the start of our event and remained all the way through to the end. It was a real honour to be a part of such success. The session included our "closer" - Head of NOAA Fisheries, Eileen Sobeck - who was present and engaged the entire hour and summarized the session effectively. Eileen's messag
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Assistant Secretary of Insular Areas
Federal Position Descriptions
PrintAssistant Secretary for Insular Areas, Department of the Interior
Responsibility
Management Scope
The Office of Insular Areas is one of five principal offices in the Department of the Interior. It has 35 employees and is made up of three divisions: policy, budget and technical assistance.3 In fiscal 2016, the office operated with a $605.580 million budget.4
Primary Responsibilities
• Assists, on behalf of the secretary, the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in developing more efficient and effective government by providing financial and technical assistance
• Administers and oversees U.S. federal assistance provided to the freely associated states and federated state of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau under the compacts of free association
• Serves as a focal point for the management of relations between the United States and the insular areas by de
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Eileen Sobeck was appointed head of the National Marine Fisheries Service in January 2014. In addition to her long career working to manage marine life, Sobeck has a unique qualification for the job—a species of sea slug is named for her.
Sobeck is from Davis, California, but lived in Kenya while attending high school. Her parents, Frederick and Charlotte, moved with their five children to Africa in 1968 so that Frederick could practice medicine for the Peace Corps. Sobeck attended Stanford University, earning a B.A. in 1975 and her law degree in 1978.
After graduation, Sobeck went to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in its general counsel’s office. There she worked on marine mammal and endangered species cases.
In 1984, Sobeck moved over to the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division as a trial attorney, often defending the Reagan administration in lawsuits filed by environmental groups. In 1989 she was made assistant chief of the Wildlife and Marine Resources
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