51-year-old Ronald J. Broomfield (above, right) has been sworn in as San Quentin State Prison’s new Warden. Over the past 20 years, Broomfield has risen through the CDCR ranks to his current position, beginning as a Correctional Officer at Salinas Valley State Prison. From 2002 through 2017, Mr. Broomfield worked at California State Prison – Corcoran, where he rose from Correctional Officer to Correctional Counselor I and II, Correctional Captain, then to
Associate Warden. He was promoted to Chief Deputy Warden in 2017, then became Acting Warden at SQ in 2020, just before the Coronavirus outbreak. “I’m always going to continue to do the best job I can,” he said.