Wyoming Land Trust - About Us - Board of Directors

ABOUT US - Board of Directors

	Dave Bell (Pinedale) - Has been a Wyoming resident since 1993. He was a previous member on the Board of the Green River Valley Land Trust, serves as an active member of and former Chairman of the Sublette County Recreation Board for 12 years, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Wyoming Business Alliance/Wyoming Heritage Foundation. He is involved in numerous other community and statewide activities.
	Ralph Brokaw is a fifth generation rancher on the Brokaw Ranch at Arlington. The family-run ranch is a cow-calf operation, raising cattle in partnership with CHK Cattle Company from Saratoga. Ralph has served on the Board of Supervisors of the Medicine Bow Conservation District for 15 years, as well as on the Wyoming State Association of Conservation Districts Board for 9 years, serving as President for 6 years. He was a member of the National Association of Conservation Districts during his tenure as state president, serving on several committees. He was also in the Leadership Wyoming Class of 2010.
	Bernie Holz (Banner) - Has lived in Wyoming since 1977. He is a University of Wyoming Alumni with a Bachelor’s of Science in Wildlife Management and Conservation and a Master of Science in Zoology. Bernie’s hobbies include working with horses, backcountry horse packing, camping, hunting, fishing, and playing guitar. He also enjoys watching polo. Bernie served a three year term with the Green River Valley Land Trust. “The WLT will have the opportunities to conserve open space, scenery, wildlife habitats maintained by agriculture throughout all of Wyoming.”
	Jody Levin - Pinedale, Wyoming native Jody Levin owns Levin Strategic Resources, a government and public relations firm. Prior to establishing her own business, Jody represented Qwest Communications for six years as the Wyoming Director of Public Policy. Jody served five years coordinating natural resource and agricultural policy at the state and federal level, including serving as U.S. Senator Craig Thomas’ legislative director and a policy advisor to two governors. She serves on numerous civic boards, including the Wyoming Rural Development Council and the Laramie County Community College Foundation. She has a B.S. in Agricultural Communications and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wyoming.
	Janet Lockman (Cheyenne) - Janet received her B.S. in Animal Husbandry from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA in 1967. She then attended one year of graduate school at Colorado State University. Janet finished her educational career with a B.S. in Elementary Education from Utah State University in 1986. Janet and her husband, David, married in 1969 and raised three sons; Rex, Clint, and Dusty. From 1981-1989 Janet worked as a substitute teacher and educational assistant for Lincoln County School District #2 in Afton, WY. Janet then went on to work as a substitute teach and educational assistant for Laramie County School District #1 until 1992. Continuing her role as an educator, Janet worked as a kindergarten and 3rd grade teacher for Laramie County School District #1 until 2006. Janet now works with Wildlife Management Services of the Rockies, a family-operated wildlife consulting business, owned by her husband David.
	Tom Lubnau (Gillette) - Was born in Laramie, Wyoming. In 1981, he received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Wyoming. In 1984, he received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Wyoming College of Law. He is a founding member of Lubnau Law Office, PC, a law firm located in Gillette and Cheyenne, Wyoming. He is married to Rita Lubnau. They have two children, Rachel (24) and Tommy (9). Tom has served in the Wyoming House of Representatives since 2004.
	Anne MacKinnon (Casper) - Came to Wyoming in 1979 as an energy business reporter for the Casper Star-Tribune, where she was a joint runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service in 1985. Anne received an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She is now a consultant in Casper, focusing in public discussion of natural resource issues. Anne is one of the Division I commissioners on the Wyoming Water Development Commission, appointed by Governor Dave Freudenthal in 2003 and reappointed in 2007.
	Katie McClure (Pinedale and Cody) - Has lived in Wyoming almost 16 years, all though not consecutively. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications/Public Relations from the University of Wyoming in Laramie where she was on the rodeo team. For awhile she worked her dream job in the Media Relations department of the Colorado Rockies until she decided to pursue a much higher calling by marrying her husband Sam. They have two children who keep Katie busy shuttling to various sporting events and school activities. When not chasing kids she enjoys riding snow machines and horses in the wide open Wyoming spaces.
	Tom Mosley currently serves as the Wells Fargo Bank's Regional Director for Wealth Management for the states of Wyoming and Montana. He holds a B.B.A in finance from Texas A&M University and has completed graduate level certifications from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. A lifelong education advocate, Tom and his wife Julie have been instrumental in funding a permanent endowed scholarship at Texas A&M, where he has served on the Advisory Board. A member of the Leadership Wyoming Class of 2011, Tom lives in Casper.
	Aaron Otteman (Casper) - Has lived in Wyoming most of his life with the exception of 3 years in college earning a Bachelor’s degree, one year in Alaska between undergrad and grad school and three years, post-grad school working in Houston, TX. His hobbies, and career for that matter (geologist), are a result of the influence that landscape has on a child. Backcountry skiing, rock climbing, mountaineering, backpacking, and biking (both kinds) top the list, with fishing scattered amongst the aforementioned. Aaron agreed to be on the WLT board because of his work in an extractive industry. An industry which has brought great prosperity to the state, but also one that, if not executed properly, has the potential to adversely affect not only wildlife and habitat but communities, ranches and family heritages.
	Ron Rhyne (Cora)
	Gary Shorma (Sheridan) - Was raised in Wyoming and graduated from Big Piney High School. He attended the University of Wyoming and received a BS degree in Wildlife Management. He retired in 2005 after completing a 36+ year career with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department serving as a Game Warden (1969-1978) and regional wildlife supervisor (1978-2005). From 2005 through 2009, he has worked on a temporary/part-time basis for the U.S. Forest Service as a FPO (Forest Protection Officer) on the Bighorn National Forest. Gary’s interests and hobbies include virtually anything involved with Wyoming’s outdoors, including but not limited to, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, gardening, and wildlife viewing. He has been a member of several civic, professional, church, and wildlife organizations.
	Mike Smith (Cheyenne) - Grew up in Laramie. Mike got his BA in Secondary Education (History) and JD from the University of Wyoming. He now lives in Cheyenne with his wife Tiffany and two girls Olivia(6) and Mallory (4). Mike is the Director of Regulatory Affairs for QEP Resources, a position he has held since December 2007. In that capacity, he monitors and develops regulatory policy initiatives on the federal level and throughout the Rocky Mountain States of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and North Dakota. Part of his responsibility includes coordinating QEP’s partnership with The Nature Conservancy on TNC’sEnergy by Design initiative in QEP’s Hiawatha, Pinedale and Uinta Basin fields.
	Scott Williams (Jackson) - Prior to joining the Board in 2010, Scott served on the committee for the Corridor Conservation Campaign. In 2005, Scott and his wife, Amy, donated a conservation easement to the WLT on their parcel on the Seven Mile River Ranch (SMRR) in Daniel, Wyoming. Scott is also the general manager of SMRR. A native of Virginia, Scott received a B.A. in history from Washington and Lee University and an M.B.A. from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. He worked for several firms, including J.P. Morgan & Company and McKinsey & Company, before joining HSBC as the Chief Investment Officer for their Consumer and Mortgage Lending group in the U.S. At the end of 2007, Scott retired and moved his family to Wyoming. He splits his time between their home in Jackson and their ranch in Daniel.
	Larry Wolfe (Cheyenne) - Received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Davis, and earned a J.D. from the University of Wyoming. Since then, Larry has become a partner at the Holland & Hart Law firm in Cheyenne. He has served as the Chairman of Holland & Hart’s Natural Resources Department, as one of the Department Chairs, and Chairman of the Management Committee at Holland & Hart. Larry joined Holland & Hart after serving as the Chief of the Natural Resources Division, Wyoming Attorney General’s Office from 1983 to 1985 and Assistant Attorney General from 1980 to 1985. Wolfe has also served the Cheyenne community in various other capacities.