Jerry Brown selects wife of longtime friend for education post
January 11, 2011 | 5:32 pm
Jerry Brown has named the wife of one of his top advisers to the state Board of Education. Ilene Straus was named to the board Tuesday, replacing Brown's earlier pick, Louis “Bill” Honig.
Honig was named to the board by Brown last week but withdrew from consideration Monday.
Straus, an assistant superintendent in the Beverly Hills Unified School District and former Santa Monica High School principal, is married to Tom Quinn, a longtime Brown confidant. Quinn was Brown’s first pick to head the California Air Resources Board in the 1970s, and he played a key ro