Mike Boots
Michael Boots is a former government official who served as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality during part of Barack Obama's presidency. He served in the position from February 2014 – March 2015.
Boots grew up in Los Angeles and graduated with an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University and received a B.A. in Communications from the University of California Los Angeles. Before joining the Obama administration's Council on Environmental Quality as a staffer at the beginning of the new administration's time in office he worked at environmental advocacy group SeaWeb.
