Ex-Candidate Gets Workers’ Comp Post
- Share via
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Pete Wilson has appointed Kate Squires, a Riverside County lawyer who ran unsuccessfully in the June primary for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, to an $88,056-a-year position on the state Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.
Squires, of Corona, heads a legal education and publishing company and has experience in corporate law firms.
As a commissioner on the workers’ compensation board, which has quasi-judicial powers, Squires will hear appeals and participate in decisions regarding benefits for workers who are injured at work.
Get the L.A. Times Politics newsletter
Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. In your inbox twice per week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
