Lodi native Ricky Gill set for role in Trump admin

Gill, 37, served as the NSC director for Europe and Russian affairs in the final year of Trump’s first term. He was also a senior advisor in the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations at the State Department from 2017 to 2020. If appointed, Gill will succeed Lindsey Ford, a former Pentagon official who has served in the role for the last year.

Born and raised in Lodi, Gill graduated from Tokay High School in 2005, and four years later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also attended Boalt Law School at University of California, Berkeley.

In 2011, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress District 11 seat against Jerry McNerney.

He ran again four years later when the seat became the 9th District, and he again lost to McNerney.

The son of Jasbir and Param Gill, he was appointed student member of the California Board of Education by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004. Gill has also served as policy consultant for Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.; worked for former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in 2006; served as legal counselor for Oakland Athletics in the summer of 2010; and previously served on the Lodi Boys & Girls Club board of directors.

Gill did not return phone calls seeking comment.