By Karen Robes Meeks
Santa Clara County Internal Audit Manager Rebecca Haggerty will be the Port of Oakland’s new Chief Audit Officer.
The Board of Port Commissioners recently appointed Haggerty, who will take over Acting Chief Audit Officer Katherine Buckley, who will go back to being Port Audit Manager.
Haggerty, who will oversee direct operational and financial audits for all port offices, brings longtime accounting and auditing experience to Oakland.
She has worked for Santa Clara County since 1997. Before that, she worked for the cities of Palo Alto and San Jose. In the private sector, she worked as an auditor and accountant at Deloitte in San Jose and Perisho, Tombor, Loomis and Ramirez in Campbell, Calif.
