A member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s public affairs team will soon join the Justice Department’s press office.
Adora Andy, who has been at EPA’s public affairs office since 2008, will leave the agency to start at the Justice Department on Aug. 22. She was President Barack Obama’s appointee for deputy associate administrator for Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education and has worked as the EPA’s press secretary during the BP oil spill last year.
Adora Andy
Before the EPA, Andy worked on Obama’s presidential campaign as regional press secretary in Florida during the general election season and as a spokeswoman for six states.
She has also worked as a television news producer and reporter in Columbia, Mo., press secretary for former Democratic Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee in his 2005 bid for a Senate seat, and public information officer for the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office in Georgia.
Andy’s appointment was first reported by Mike Allen in his Playbook newsletter.
The Justice Department Office of Public Affairs did not respond to a request for information about Andy’s new duties.
