Ruckelshaus Institute Board

CHAIRMAN

John F. Turner
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
 

DIRECTOR

Harold L. Bergman
Professor of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming
 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Tom Buchanan
President, University of Wyoming

Gary Collins
Geologist/Rancher, Indigenous Water Network, Arapaho Tribal Liaison to Governor's Planning Office

William A. Gern
Vice President for Research and Economic Development, University of Wyoming

Jean Hocker
President, ConServCo/Conservation Service Company, LLC; President Emeritus, Land Trust Alliance, Inc.; and Director, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Pete Jorgensen
Jorgensen Associates, PC, and Wyoming State Representative

Forrest M. "Frosty" Kepler
Summit Corporation

Dave Palmerlee
Attorney, Palmerlee and Durrant, LLC, and UW Trustee

Edward Pollak
Senior Vice President (retired), Olin Corporation

Mike Sullivan
Attorney, Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons LLP
Former Governor, State of Wyoming, Former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
 

Steve Unfried
Managing Director, Credit Suisse First Boston (retired)

MEMBERS

Myron Allen
Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of Wyoming

Sarah Bates
Policy and Outreach Deputy, Western Progress

Rosie Berger
Wyoming House of Representatives

Ralph Cavanagh
Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

Roy Cline
Executive Vice President (retired), Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc.

John Corra
Director, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

Gary Erickson
Region Manager, Wood Fiber and Fuel Procurement, Sappi Final Paper North America

Dave Freudenthal
Governor, State of Wyoming

Daniel Glick
Journalist and Author

Liliane A. Haub
Member of the Advisory Board of the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole

Tom Jensen
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP

Robert Keiter
Director, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, University of Utah

Stephanie Kessler
Wyoming representative, The Wilderness Society

Jeff Lockwood
Professor of Philosophy, University of Wyoming

Daniel Luecke
Environmental Scientist and Water Resources Expert

Whitney MacMillan
Chairman Emeritus, Cargill Inc.

Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet
President, Antioch University Seattle

Thomas W.L. McCall, Jr.
Senior Consultant to Army Environmental Policy Institute, Plexus Scientific Corporation

Elizabeth Cuthbert Millett
Owner and Operator, Plum Creek Ranch, former Board Chair, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and former Board member, Western Organization of Resource Councils

Rebecca H. Noecker
Attorney, Beatty & Wozniak, P.C.

Terry O'Connor
Vice President, External and Regulatory Affairs, Shell Exploration and Production Company

Rick Robitaille
Manager, Government Relations, Rocky Mountain Region, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

John Schiffer
Wyoming State Senator

Christine Scott
Member of The Nature Conservancy's National Board of Governors, and Trustee, Montana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy

Jason Shogren
Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming

Shane Smith
Director, Cheyenne Botanic Gardens

Thomas Spicer, M.D.
Physician and UW Trustee

Jane Sullivan
Advisory Board, Wyoming Stock Growers Agricultural Land Trust, and Casper College Board of Trustees

Richard J. Taggart
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (retired), Weyerhaeuser Company

Steve Thomas
Northern Plains Director, Sierra Club

Peter Wold
President, Wold Oil Properties

Martha B. Wyrsch
President and CEO, Spectra Energy Transmission

Anne Young
Board member, Wyoming Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
 

EMERITUS MEMBERS

Richard B. Cheney
United States Vice President

Donald Kendall
Co-founder, Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.

William D. Ruckelshaus
Principal, Madrona Investment Group, LLC

Alan Simpson
Former U.S. Senator from Wyoming
 

IMMEDIATE PAST BOARD MEMBERS

Mary Budd Flitner
Rancher and Businesswoman, Diamond Tail Ranch

Jim Geringer
Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., and former Governor of Wyoming

Frank Moore
President, Spearhead Ranch

Jim Souby
President and CEO, Park City Center for Public Policy

Elizabeth Storer
President, Storer Communications L.L.C.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Ben Blalock
Vice President for Institutional Advancement, University of Wyoming

BOARD AFFILIATES

John Ehrmann
Senior Partner, Meridian Institute

Sara Flitner
Flitner Communications

Rich Innes
Conservation Strategies, LLC