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SACRAMENTO – Berkeley resident Ellen Gold, 52, was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to the state Carcinogen Identification Committee last week. 

Gold, who is an epidemiology professor at UC Davis, was tapped for the unpaid post to share expertise in the evaluation of cancer-causing agents. The state committee is charged with identifying carcinogens for policy making and public safety.  

Albany resident Gail Hillebrand was also recruited by the governor. Hillebrand, an attorney with the Consumers Union of U.S. Inc., was appointed to the state Board of Accountancy. 

The board seeks to protect public welfare by ensuring that only qualified persons are licensed and that appropriate standards of competency and practice are established and enforced. 

Berkeley’s Gold has been involved with the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at UC Davis for nearly 15 years. She has also been the principal investigator for a National Institute on Aging grant Women’s Health Across the Nation since 1994. 

Gold earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UCLA and a doctor of philosophy degree from Johns Hopkins University. 

Hillebrand, before working for the Consumers Unions, worked with a private law firm and before that, clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Justice Robert Boochever. Hillebrand earned a bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego and a juris doctorate degree from Boalt Hall School of Law.