Carrie Safford is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s new Secretary of the Commission, making her the fifth person in the agency’s history to hold the primary gatekeeping post for the commissioners.
The NRC announced Safford’s new role in a press release on Tuesday. Most recently a deputy director in the division of fuel management, Safford now will be responsible for scheduling commission meetings, controlling commission correspondence, maintaining commission records and monitor staff compliance with commission decisions, among other official duties.
Safford succeeds Brooke Poole Clark, who became NRC’s general counsel in October, according to the commission’s presser. Clark replaced Marian Zobler, who retired.
Safford has mostly worked as an attorney in her career, according to her LinkedIn profile. She joined the NRC in 2008 as an attorney in the Materials Litigation and Enforcement Division. She has a juris doctorate from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains, N.Y., and a bachelors of science in biology-geology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
