CMC Energy Services President Eileen McGinnis joined CMC earlier this year after serving as a consultant to the company for three years while a partner in the Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting group focused on environmental and energy issues.

McGinnis has held top policy, regulatory and management positions in state and federal governments for over two decades. These include Chief of Staff to the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where she provided counsel on the key policy and regulatory issues facing the Agency, and Chief of Policy in New Jersey’s Office of the Governor, where she was responsible for the planning and implementation of major government initiatives and operations across state government.

In 2004, McGinnis successfully completed a program designed for leaders in public service at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she was awarded a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy.  During her time at Princeton, she conducted research on climate change programs in the public and private sectors and the impact of energy deregulation.

McGinnis has taught at Columbia, Rutgers and The College of New Jersey.  Her courses focus on policy making and on the science, economics and politics of climate change.  McGinnis earned a BA in Social Policy from Goucher College and a Master in Public Policy degree from Princeton University. 

She resides in Pennington, NJ with her husband, Michael C. Laracy, who is the Director of Policy at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  They have two daughters, Sean and Charlotte.