Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Nani Coloretti

No. 5 Nani Coloretti

It was always going to be a heavy lift for whoever followed after Ann Patterson as Newsom’s Cabinet Secretary. But Nani Coloretti has shown she is more than up to the task. To be fair, she had proved she could handle big time politics before she ever came to the governor’s office. Coloretti has previously held numerous high level jobs in the nonprofit sphere and in federal government, including as Deputy Director for the Office of Budget and Management under President Joe Biden, meaning she had a big hand in managing a $7 TRILLION federal budget. More than that, she was already a charter member of Newsomworld, having served as his Budget Director when he was mayor of San Francisco. And as we all know, never discount the SF connection when it comes to who has pull with this governor. Coloretti holds a BA in economics and communications from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley.

Updated August 11, 2026