Delta Leadership Program Visits Port of Stockton

    The 2025 Class of the Delta Leadership Program at the Port of Stockton on Feb. 7, 2025

    STOCKTON, Calif. (Feb. 9, 2025) – The 2025 Class of the Delta Leadership Program spent Friday at the Port of Stockton interacting with state and regional water policy leaders and touring the port.

    The tour included a sighting of agricultural wood waste being unloaded from big rigs, not the kind of thing most people see every day, or ever at all, with the entire trucks raised on hydraulics to let material fall out the back (video on Facebook). The port tour was led by Jeff Wingfield, himself an alumni of the first class of the DLP (2016).

    The program is a joint effort by the Delta Protection Commission and the Delta Leadership Foundation to support sustained leadership development in the region.

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    DLP participant Josh McMillon of Walnut Grove
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    Panelist Nancy Vogel, Senior Water Policy Advisor to the Director, Department of Water Resources
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    DLP participant Kathleen Schaefer of San Anselmo
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    DLP participant Gerry Goodie Jr. of Walnut Grove
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    DLP participant Lea Emmons II of Tracy
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    DLP participant Misty Kaltreider of Fairfield
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    DLP participant Gerald Strootman of Acampo
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    Panelist Sean Maguire, member of the State Water Resources Control Board
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    DLP participant LeighAnn Davis of Brentwood
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    DLP participant Ahmad Majid of Stockton
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    DLP participant Lea Emmons II of Tracy
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    Program facilitator Lisa Beutler and DLP participant Misty Kaltreider of Fairfield
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    Port of Stockton Deputy Director Jeff Wingfield, a 2016 DLP alum
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    Port of Stockton, by the numbers
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    Nina Hawk, Chief of Bay-Delta Resources, Metropolitan Water District
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    DLP participant Kirsten Pringle of Sacramento
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    DLP participant Esther Mburu of Stockton
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    Panelist John Herrick, Manager and General Counsel of the South Delta Water Agency
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    DLP participant Esther Mburu of Stockton