Rich Negrin

Rich Negrin is an American lawyer who formerly served as Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection from June to December 2023.

Biography The son of Cuban immigrants, Negrin was 13 when he witnessed the assassination of his father, the director of a refugee services center in New Jersey, by anti-Castro activists. After graduating from Wagner College and Rutgers Law School, he worked as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney's office from 1995 to 2000.

Under Mayor Michael Nutter, Negrin was appointed executive director of the Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes in 2009 and then the city's managing director and deputy mayor in 2010. He received 14.2% of the vote in the Democratic primary, placing third behind Larry Krasner and Joe Khan.

In January 2023, Negrin was nominated as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection by Governor Josh Shapiro.

Electoral history