Meet the Board Leadership

Arthur G Baggett, Jr., serves as the attorney member with water rights experience on the five-member State Water Resources Control Board, which is responsible for protecting, preserving, and restoring the beneficial uses of the waters of California providing for their equitable use.

Mr. Baggett is a long time resident of EL Portal. He was co-founder of the Merced Canyon Committee which successfully advocated for protection of the upper Merced River and its tributaries under the federal Wild and Scenic River Act. He served two terms as a member of the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors and Mariposa County Water Agency. Mr. Baggett was sole proprietor of Baggett Solar Design and Construction Company, and practiced water, environmental, business, and family law in Mariposa.

Mr. Baggett is past president of the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators, a member of Dividing the Waters ( a project of western state judges that focus on adjudication of water rights), and has served on numerous Environmental Protection Agency advisory committees. As a scientist and teacher, he has guided for the Yosemite Mountaineering School, been on the faculty of Yosemite Institute and the University of California’s Sierra Institute, and served as adjunct faculty of San Joaquin College of Law, and Fresno State University’s Department of Chemistry.

In his spare time, Art enjoys part time status as a musician in his son’s bluegrass and country band, Pine Crow, and skis and hikes the backcountry of the Sierra Nevada Mountains with family and friends.