Gov. David Paterson just announced the following appointments (via press release; the governor has no public schedule today): - Terryl Brown Clemons, acting counsel. Salary: $178,000. - Dennis Whalen, interim director of State Operations. Salary: $178,000. - Joe Baker, acting deputy secretary for Health and Human Services (replacing Whalen). Salary: $165,000. Clemons fills the post that was held by David Nocenti - a Spitzer holdover who stuck around after Paterson's first pick for counsel, Jim Yates, decided not to take the job and stay on the bench. Clemons was assistant deputy AG for the Division of Public Advocacy from 2003 to 2004, deputy bureau chief of the Civil Rights Bureau and assistant AG in the Litigation Bureau. Whalen is a Spitzer administration holdover who is replacing Paul Francis , who started as Spitzer's budget director and then moved into the director of State Operations post during a shake-up about one year in. He's a state government veteran - he joined DOH in 1974 - and has also worked at OASAS. Baker also came from the AG's office, where he worked from 2001 to 2006 as chief of the Health Care Bureau. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of the Medicare Rights Center (from 1994 to 2001). ...
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