2009, The Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The White House last week announced that President Obama had selected Jessie Roberson, a nuclear expert and senior vice president of environmental affairs for the Atlantic Sea Island Group, to be a member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The bio notes her previous jobs, even her undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering. Name sounds familiar. Roberson, Roberson: Wasn't she Dubya's appointee as assistant secretary of the Energy Department for environmental management, the $6 billion-a-year weapons cleanup program? That's not mentioned in the White House release, but she was there from 2001 to 2004. 