Meeting Speaker for January 13, 2014
Posted by Bob Rosenberg
on Jan 15, 2014
Ginger Rutland, Monday’s speaker, is adjusting to retirement. Fortunately for us her mind hasn’t slowed down one bit. Today Ginger still has a pulse on many of the important policies and procedures in California.
In December she retired as associate editor with The Sacramento Bee where she was a member of its editorial board since 1988. The issues she covered included transportation, criminal justice, the courts, voting systems, public employee pensions and gambling, among others. In 1993 she won the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s PASS Award for her editorials on juvenile justice. Ginger also contributed a weekly commentary for Capital Public Radio, the local NPR station (KXJZ 90.9).
A graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., Ginger and her husband live in Sacramento with their daughter Eva. She is the daughter of former long-time club member Bill Rutland (Top Dog at McClellan) and brother of William Rutland, who served as 25 years with former Speaker Willie Brown, where he retired as Brown’s Chief of Staff.
Before joining The Bee, the Sacramento native was a television reporter for 17 years. From 1978 to 1988 she was the Capitol Bureau reporter for KRON-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco. While at KRON she earned an Emmy for a documentary on the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She also reported extensively on pesticide issues and selenium contamination at the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Prior to that she was a general assignment reporter for KCRA-TV in Sacramento.
She has spoken previously to the club on a variety of hot topics and we are glad to have her back. Invite a friend or business associate and we will see you January 13th.