CHEF GEOFF'S WITH LUNCH SPEAKER CHRISTINE T. WHITMAN Click here for photo gallery. The Honorable Christine T. Whitman Governor of New Jersey, 1994 - 2000 Governor Whitman is the president of The Whitman Strategy Group, a management consulting/strategic planning partnership servicing both government and business clients. Governor Whitman was the 50th governor of the state of New Jersey, serving as its first woman governor, from 1994 until 2001, and served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January 2001 to June 2003. As governor she initiated a 30% cut in income taxes, as well as education reforms and a program to preserve 1 million acres of open space, along with farmland preservation. Governor Whitman currently serves on the board of directors of S.C. Johnson and Son Inc., Texas Instruments, United Technologies, and The Millennium Challenge Corporation. She is co-chairman of the National Smart Growth Council, and serves on the steering committee of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and on Oquirrh Institute’s Governors Board. She is the author of the book It’s My Party Too published in January 2005.