Juliann Martinez of UC Berkeley is next in line to be staff adviser to the UC Board of Regents.

 Martinez, the director of gift management at Berkeley, will be staff adviser-designate in 2009-10, alongside Staff Adviser Ed Abeyta, registrar and director, Academic Services, UC San Diego Extension. Then, in 2010-11, Martinez would be staff adviser.

Similarly, Abeyta served as staff adviser-designate in 2008-09, while Bill Johansen, a senior business manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, served as staff adviser.

The terms are straggered in this way, so as to ensure continuity of experience.

The staff adviser and staff adviser-designate serve as the voice of UC staff on issues brought before the Board of Regents, and they are allowed to participate in open sessions of certain board committees.

“I am honored by this appointment and proud to serve the UC staff,” Martinez said. “The challenges currently facing the University of California require innovative responses. I look forward to sharing the creative ideas, needs and energy of staff with senior leadership and the regents.”

Martinez graduated from UC Berkeley in 1987 and started working there in 1988 as director of development research. She became the director of gift management in 2000.

She is an instructor in Berkeley’s Financial Management Certificate Program for staff, and she is a is a member of the Berkeley Staff Assembly.

A statement from the UC Office of the President indicates that Martinez has consulted with numerous San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions and served as a parent representative on the K-8 Evaluation Committee for the West Contra Costa Unified School District. She also has a background in taxation and is qualified to practice before the Internal Revenue Service.

UCOP announced that the next appplication period for staff adviser (to serve as staff adviser-designate in 2010-11 and staff adviser in 2011-12) will open in January and run for at least 30 days.

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