Elise Rose, Chief Counsel, Legal Office

Elise Rose is the Chief Counsel of the State Personnel Board (SPB or Board) where she has worked for 17 years.  She has many roles, including being the Ethics Officer and Privacy Officer for the Board.  As Chief Counsel, Ms. Rose manages the legal staff, advises the five-member Board, oversees the drafting of Board decisions and Board precedential decisions, advises Board staff on a myriad of legal and policy issues, proposes, drafts and monitors legislation and regulations, and represents the Board before the Legislature, in litigation and before other administrative agencies.  Ms. Rose is responsible for starting the publication of Board precedential decisions and for development of the SPB’s State Employment Mediation Program, now entering its 12th year of success.

Prior to coming to the SPB, Ms. Rose served for 2½ years with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) as a legal advisor to PERB Board Member Willard Shank.  Her job at PERB followed a 2-year stint as a supervising attorney with the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA).  While with CCPOA, she had occasion to appear before both the SPB and PERB as an advocate, and to work with the Department of Personnel Administration on a variety of issues.

Ms. Rose’s early years as a lawyer were spent practicing litigation with a small, general practice private firm in Marina del Rey in Southern California.  She graduated with distinction from McGeorge School of Law where she was an editor for the Pacific Law Journal.