Michael Bernick (born October 1, 1952) is a United States authority on job training and employment, who served as Director of California’s labor department, the Employment Development Department (EDD), from 1999 through 2004. Bernick also has been involved in the transportation field in California, as a member of the board of directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) district from 1988-1996, and President of the BART district in 1995. With Professor Robert Cervero, he was co-director of a University of California, Berkeley research institute on land use and transit during the early 1990s, which lead to their book, Transit Villages in the 21st Century (McGraw Hill, 1996).
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