Ronald Yank became an ex officio member of the CalPERS Board of Administration upon his appointment by Governor Jerry Brown as Director of the Department of Personnel Administration on January 5, 2011. Mr. Yank, a retired labor and employment law attorney, has more than 33 years of experience in labor relations. He served as a neutral arbitrator and mediator in the field of labor and employment law and has been a partner in the law firms of Carroll Burdick & McDonough and Neyhart Anderson & Freitas. Mr. Yank was an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley from 1967 to 1971. Yank has represented bargaining units of State employees including the California Correctional Peace Officers Association and CDF Firefighters. He earned his law degree from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley. CalPERS is the largest public pension fund in the U.S. with more than $225 billion in assets. The retirement system administers pension plans for more than 1.6 billion active and retired California state, public school, and local government agencies on behalf of more than 3,000 public employers, and health benefits for more than 1.3 million enrollees. More information about CalPERS is available at www.calpers.ca.gov.
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Ronald Yank Joins CalPERS Board
Date 03/02/2011