Point Reyes National Seashore superintendent Cicely Muldoon is on a temporary assignment at Yosemite National Park, serving as the acting deputy superintendent. The move follows the resignation of Yosemite’s superintendent, Don Neubacher, who served as the seashore superintendent for 15 years.
Mr. Neubacher announced his resigned from Yosemite in September after accusations of gender discrimination and a hostile work environment ignited a House of Representative’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing and an investigation by the Inspector General. Woody Speck, the superintendent from Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, is working as Yosemite’s acting superintendent.
“[W]hen Superintendents retire or move on to other jobs, they leave a vacancy behind (obviously),” seashore spokesman John Dell’Osso said in an email. The government takes a few months to fill those jobs, he went on, during which other qualified employees serve in a detail assignment for two to three months.
Dave Brouillette, the chief of facilities management since 2010, is serving as the seashore’s acting superintendent while Ms. Muldoon is away, he said. He has worked for the park service for over three decades, including at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Boston National Historical Park.