Gov.-elect Bill Ritter named three additional members of his Cabinet on Thursday, including former Denver Fire Chief Rich Gonzales as head of personnel and administration.
Ritter named health care policy professional Joan Henneberry to oversee health care policy and financing, and lawyer Harris Sherman to manage the Department of Natural Resources.
The nominations require Senate confirmation.
Gonzales was Denver’s fire chief from 1987 to 2001 after he joined the department in 1972 as a firefighter. He recently has been vice president of various divisions of Mile High United Way.
Henneberry is senior vice president of government health services for Policy Studies Inc. and spent seven years with the nonpartisan National Governors Association working on health care policy.
Sherman was executive director of the Department of Natural Resources from 1975 to 1980 under then-Gov. Dick Lamm and is now a senior partner with the law firm of Arnold & Porter. He practices natural resource, environment, water, land-use and public-land law.
