SWCS - Key Persons


Aaron Daigh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of Committee

Aaron Lauster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Aaron Ristow - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Adam Abel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Adam Dellinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Adam Eades

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Adam Reimer

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Adrienne Marino

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Membership Chair

Alan Franzluebbers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Alan Schlegel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Alan Sundermeier

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Alexa Clark

Job Titles:
  • Member of the AC Program Committee
  • Member of Committee

Alison Milliman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Amanda Brandt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Amanda Gumbert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the AC Program Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of Committee
  • Secretary and Southeast Region Director
  • Water Quality Specialist With the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
Amanda Gumbert serves as an Extension Water Quality Specialist with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food & Environment. Amanda collaborates with university personnel and federal/state/local agency partners to deliver water quality information and technical assistance to Kentuckians through the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service. A major program focus is the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act and implementation of agricultural conservation practices, with linkages to the Mississippi River basin. Her work also extends to streamside buffer zones in urban and rural areas, where she engages with watershed organizations to promote the installation and management of riparian areas. In addition to her Extension appointment Amanda teaches an introductory course on issues in agriculture, food systems, and the environment. She holds BS and MS degrees in Plant and Soil Science and a PhD in Soil Science from the University of Kentucky. Amanda attributes her passion for agriculture and natural resources to growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, which she now owns and manages with her husband and young son.

Amber Wyndham - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of Awards Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President
  • Awards Committee Chair

Amy Overstreet

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Amy Sidener

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Andrea Casey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Andreas Klik

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Andrew Bierer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of Committee

Andrew Coombs - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Andrew Gorman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Andrew Manale

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Andrew Oxford - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Andrew Price

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Andrew Sharpley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Angelo Caruso

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Anish Subedi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Ann Baldwin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ann Fischer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ann Marie Swannack

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Anna Golightly - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Annie Binder

Job Titles:
  • Director of Publications / Editor
  • Director of Publications at the Soil
  • Member of Committee
Annie Binder is director of publications at the Soil and Water Conservation Society and editor of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. She is responsible for the journal, SWCS book publishing, Web site, Conservogram newsletter, and other communications.

Annunziata Paolini - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Anshu Singh - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Anthony Beals

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Anthony Esser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ardell Halvorson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Arlene Brandt-Jenson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ashley Waller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Austin Omer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Barb Gohlke - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

Barbara Gohlke - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

Barbara Miller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Barbara Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Barry Bubolz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Becky Ross

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ben Beavers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ben Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bennie Moore

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Beth Sauerhaft

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bethany Schultz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bill Harris

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bill Kletecka

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bill Lambert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bobbi Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bradley Miller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bradley Schwab

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Brandi Murphy - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Brandy Pietz-Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Brenda Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Brent Clark - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Brent Sohngen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Brian Benham - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Brian Boerman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Brian Lassiter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Bryan Oborne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

C Pat Bagley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

C Wilson Spencer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cal Thorson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Calvin Bohannon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Canton Ford

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Carol Grasis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Carol Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Carrie Janssen-Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Carrie Werkmeister

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Catherine O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cathy Donaldson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cathy McGuire

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Celine Morales

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Chad Kacir

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Chad Klotzbach

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Chad Watts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Charles Adams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Charles Bass Jr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Membership Chair

Charles Pannebaker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Chere Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cherie LaFleur

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cherie Sage

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cheryl Simmons

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Chairman of Committee
  • International Committee Chair

Chester Bush

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Chip Ramsey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Chris Duke - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

Chris Kappes - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Chris Lee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Christian Bongard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Christina Gates

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Christine Hall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Christine Lousias

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Christine Odiaga - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Christopher Coreil Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Christopher Hartley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of Committee
  • Northeast Regional Director
  • Senior Environmental Markets Analyst With the United States Department of Agriculture 's Office of Environmental Markets
Christopher Hartley is the Senior Environmental Markets Analyst with the United States Department of Agriculture's Office of Environmental Markets. He is responsible for the development of policy, tools, and metrics to facilitate private investment in conservation and the participation of farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in emerging environmental markets. He previously worked for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington, DC, and in California. He is a member of the National Capital Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, where he has served in numerous leadership positions. Hartley is a Certified Crop Advisor and a licensed Pest Control Advisor with more than 25 years of experience working in support of production agriculture and the promotion of clean air, clean water, and a safe and abundant food supply. He earned a doctorate in agricultural ecology and master's degrees in agronomy and international agricultural development from the University of California-Davis. He also served with the US Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, from 1993 to 1996.

Chuck Lebeda

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Chunsheng Hu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of Committee

Chyenna Julius - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Claire Baffaut

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Clare Lindahl - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Membership Chair
  • Chief Executive Officer of the Soil
  • Member of Committee
Clare Lindahl is chief executive officer of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. Clare is in charge of public affairs, program development, governance, and special projects. Clare became the CEO of SWCS in August of 2017. She previously served as the executive director for Conservation Districts of Iowa and as...

Clare Liptak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Clark Gantzer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Clark Hutson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Clark Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Claudia Stevenson - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Cliff Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cody Fink

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cody Hatzenbuhler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Corinne Ross

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cory Cole

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Cory Hoar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Courtney Allen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the AC Program Committee
  • Event and Professional Development Director / Executive Assistant to the CEO
  • Member of Committee
  • Professional Development Director of the Soil
Courtney Allen is the event and professional development director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and the executive assistant to the CEO. Courtney is the lead staff person for the SWCS Annual Conference and also manages the special conferences, workshops, distance learning, and other professional development opportunities with regional...

Courtney Myers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Craig Romary

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Curtis Dell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Nominations Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Curtis Knueven

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dale Threatt-Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dan Dostie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dan Mull

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dana Bayless

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Daniel Hovland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Daniel Kesselring

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Daniel Meyerhoff - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Daniel Moriasi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of Committee

Daniel Paulsen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Daniel Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Daniel Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Daniel Yoder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Daniel Zinkand

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Danny Hughes, Jr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Danny Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Darrell Beason

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Darrell Marshall - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Darwin Hinrichs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Dave Bedlan

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dave Clapp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Archer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of Committee

David Buland - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

David Dornbusch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Heilig

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Kann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Libben

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Owen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Rahe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Rose

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

David Schaaf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dawn Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dawn Shank

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dawn Williamson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President Elect
  • Regional

Dean Eisenhauer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

DeAnn Presley

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Deborah Mann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Debra Moreland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Debra Ryun

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dee Carlson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dee Pederson - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Deepthi Kolady

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Dennis DeWeese

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dennis Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Derrick Raspor

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Desiderio Zamudio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Devin Basile

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Diana Sheridan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Diane Bradley-Redden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dillon Carr - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Donald Hauxwell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Donald Tyler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Donna Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dorcas Franklin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Doug McCluskey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Douglas Garrison

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Douglas Hines

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Douglas Smith

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Douglas Stienbarger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Drew Mosburg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Duane Friend

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dustin Farmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Dwight Head

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

East Slope

Job Titles:
  • East Slope Director

Ed Harms

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Edward Erickson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Edward Hanson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Edward Petersen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Edward Wright

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Elizabeth Fortman

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director - at - Large
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Newsletter Editor

Elizabeth Hill

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Elizabeth Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ellen Gilinsky

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Nominations Committee
  • Member of Committee
  • President of Ellen Gilinsky
  • Vice - Chair and at - Large Director
Ellen Gilinsky, PhD is president of Ellen Gilinsky, LLC, which she started in January 2017 to work with government, industry, and the private sector on finding environmental solutions to water challenges. Her clients include Resources for the Future, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Defense Fund, SERA-46 Land Grant Universities, and National Academy of Sciences. As part of the Obama Administration from 2011 through 2016, she was the Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water at the Environmental Protection Agency, where she played a key role in water programs at the federal, state, and local levels, working closely with diverse stakeholders in the water quality, quantity, and agriculture sectors, and serving as co-chair of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gilinsky served as director of the Water Division at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, and in the early 1980s she was part of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Program staff. In addition, she has 12 years of experience as an environmental consultant at several regional and national environmental engineering firms. Dr. Gilinsky received her BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in zoology, with a concentration in aquatic ecology, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been a past president of the Association of Clean Water Administrators, and held a past gubernatorial appointment to the State Advisory Board of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center. She currently serves as a board member of River Network and holds a gubernatorial appointment to the Science and Technical Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program.

Emil Horvath

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Emily Pickron - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Emily Usher - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Emma Harper

Job Titles:
  • Communications Coordinator
  • Member of Committee
Emma Harper is the communications coordinator at SWCS. She is responsible for creating and implementing marketing and communications content to promote SWCS and our mission via social media, website, press releases, email, and other communication mediums.

Eric Harper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Erica Westbrook

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Erik Beardsley

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Erik Suffridge

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Erika Crady

Job Titles:
  • Membership Director
  • Member of Committee
Erika is the membership director for SWCS. She provides and processes information on membership, chapters, subscriptions, and book orders.

Erika Mattson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Mississippi State Univ Student Chapter

Erin Ling

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Estella Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Eugene Hausner - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Eugene Lindemann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Evan Madlinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Francisco Arriaga

Job Titles:
  • Member of the AC Program Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of Committee

Frank Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Fred Alcott

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Frederick Garst

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gabrielle Bolwerk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Gail Hughes - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Garry Banks

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gary Bahr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gary Boersen

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gary Childress - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Gary Hawkins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gary Smith - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Gary Steinhardt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • in - Purdue Univ Student Chapter

Gary Wendt - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Gaye Benfer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gayle Norman Barry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

George Derringer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Georgie Leinweber

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gerald McMasters

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gerald Miller - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Gerald Schuman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Geri Montgomery - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Glenn O'Neil - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Greg Albrecht

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Greg Townley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Gregory Anderson - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gregory Hughes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Gretchen Sassenrath

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Chairman of the Committee
  • Editorial Board Chair
  • Science and Policy

H. Jeffrey Holloway

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Hanna Bates

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Harold Blume - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Harold Hendrickson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Harold Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Harry Doswell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Heath Eisele

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Heidi Ackerman - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Co - Chair of the AC Program Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Chairman of Committee

Heidi Brewer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Henry Kelsey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Hida Manns

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Hugh Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Hugh Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ira Linville

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Irina Belozerova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

J. Chris Stoner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

J. Louis Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

J. Trent Mathews

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jack Kuhn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jackie Henderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

James Cox

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

James Doolittle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

James Gilbert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

James Lyles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

James Marshall - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Jamey Wood

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jamie Patton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jamie Seeman Shonkwiler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Jan Jorgensen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jane Holzer - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Janette Peters

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Janice Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jason Dalrymple

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jason Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jason Hardie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jason Hart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jason Keppler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jason Warren

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jason Weller

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Jay Jung

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jayme Arthurs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jean Foster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jean Gagliardo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jeff Boeckler - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Jeff Norville

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jeff Skousen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jeffory Hattey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jeffrey Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Jeffrey White

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jennifer Gallus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Jennifer Nelson - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Jennifer Skaggs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jennifer Vetter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jennifer Vogel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jenny Adkins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jenny Rasmussen - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Jerod Chew

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jerry Frady

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jerry Griswold

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jerry Hatfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • at - Large Director
  • Member of Committee
Jerry Hatfield received his PhD from Iowa State University in 1975 in the area of agricultural climatology and is the retired director of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa. His research focuses on the interactions among the components of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and their linkage to air, water, and soil quality. His focus has been on the evaluation of farming systems and their response to water and nitrogen interactions across soils and remote sensing methods to quantify field variation. He utilizes the genetics x environment x management concept to show producers how they can increase their production efficiency, increase soil health, and develop resilience to weather and climate variation. He is the recipient of numerous awards including being inducted into the USDA ARS Hall of Fame for his research impact and the Hugh Hammond Bennett award. He is the author of 498 refereed publications and 18 monographs.

Jessica D'Ambrosio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jessica Sargis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Jill Booker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jill Reinhart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jill Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jim Frederick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jim Harrigan - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jim Hebbe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jim Hoorman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Joan Bortnem Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jody Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Assistant
  • Member of Committee
Jody (JT) is the editorial assistant at SWCS. She is in charge of manuscript tracking for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and puts together the monthly SWCS newsletter. JT also edits accepted research manuscripts, assists with SWCS book publications, and makes Web updates. In addition to her editorial...

Joe Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

John Beck

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

John Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

John Buchanan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Dudula - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

John Freeland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Kendrick - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

John Kluthe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John McCann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John McMaine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Mikulcik

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Myers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Ourada

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Ramirez Avila

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Rissler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Sippl

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

John Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Jon Bartholic

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jon Field

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jon Hall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jon Scherer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jon Tesdell - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jonathan Aguilar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jonathan Cotton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jordan Foss

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Jorge Delgado

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of Committee

Jose Payero - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Joseph May

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Joseph Otto

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee
  • Special Projects and Partnerships Director
  • Special Projects and Partnerships Director / Historian
Joe Otto is the special projects and partnerships director at SWCS. His role is managing SWCS's current grants and developing grant and partnership opportunities. In addition, he is also the historian. He is archiving and organizing the Society's documents and historical records. He is also building interpretation of the Society's...

Josh Balk - Chairman, President

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President
  • Student Liaison

Josh Ketch - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President
  • Member of the Committee

Joshua Cook

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Juan Renteria

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Judith Schultz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Julie Reberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Julie Wright

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Justin Hinkel - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Kaitlin Schott

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President Elect

Kaitlyn Maloch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Karen Kline

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Karl Auerswald

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Karl Strause

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Karnita Golson Garner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Katelyn Vogeler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Katherine Rudolphy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kathleen Dobler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kathy Allen - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Kathy Holm

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kathy Respess

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kathya Hattaway

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Katie Droscha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Katie Flahive

Job Titles:
  • Member of the AC Program Committee
  • Member of the Committee

Kay Joy Barge

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kefeni Kejela

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President Elect

Keith Berns

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of Committee
  • Northwest Regional Director
Keith Berns combines over 20 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching agriculture and computers. In addition to no-tilling 2,500 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat in south central Nebraska, he also co-owns and operates Green Cover Seed, one of the major cover crop seed providers and educators in the United States. Through Green Cover Seed, Berns has experimented with over 100 different cover crop types and hundreds of mixes planted into various situations and has learned a great deal about cover crop growth, nitrogen fixation, moisture usage, and grazing utilization of cover crops. He was honored by the White House as a 2016 Champion of Change for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture. Berns also developed the SmartMix CalculatorTM one of the most widely used cover crop selection tools on the internet. He has a master's degree in agricultural education from the University of Nebraska and teaches on cover crops and soil health more than 30 times per year to various groups and audiences. Berns was also recently appointed by Nebraska Governor Pete Rickets to be the chairman of the Nebraska Healthy Soils Task Force.

Kellee Melton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kelli Evans

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kelly Goward - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Kelly Niland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kelly Wolff - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Kenneth Lackmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kent Bohnhoff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kent Dankenbring

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kevin Kinvig

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kevin Kuhn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kevin McCall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kim Vinson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kimberly Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kimberly Schroeder - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Kirk Iversen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kirt Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kit Sutherland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Koffi Djaman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kris Ethridge - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Kris Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Krista Kirkham - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Kristi Gay

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kristie McKinley - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Kristin Brennan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kristin Esch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kristin Graham Chavez - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Kristin Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Kyle Franz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lamonte Garber

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Membership Chair

Lance Loken

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lara Bryant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

LaRae Baker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Larry Antosch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Larry Cihacek - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

Larry Hasty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Larry Oldham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Larry Wright

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Laura Coover

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lauren Haygood

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Lawrence Cooke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lawrence Humphries

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lawrence Morris

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Leah Duzy - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Lee Burras

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lena Bohm

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Leon Marciak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Leonard Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Acting Chief of the USDA 's Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • at - Large Director
Leonard Jordan has spent more than four decades building a portfolio focused on conserving our natural resources. Having worked across the nation, Jordan has worked with several interest groups, government agencies and non-profit organizations to ensure that our environment is protected. His passion is to work with the American public,...

Leslie Fisher - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Leslie Gahagan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lexi Gardner - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Lia Webb

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Linda Meschke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lindsey Yasarer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Lisa Blazure

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lisa Cox

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Lisa Duriancik

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Lisa Hokholt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lisa Lobry de Bruyn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of Committee

Lloyd Owens

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lori Bataller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Lori Lynch

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Marc Safley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Marc Vanacht

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Margaret Gitau

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Marie Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Marisol Berti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Nominations Committee

Mark Buckreis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mark Fritz - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Mark Goodson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mark Henning

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mark Myers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Mark Risse - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Mark Steffek

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mark Tomer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mark Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Marni Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Marsha Paley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • CO - Colorado

Marshall McDaniel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Martha Sheppard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Martha Zwonitzer

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Marvin Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mary Beth Stevenson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mary Doidge

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of Committee

Mary Fales

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mary Goodman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mary Miller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mary Pfaffko

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Mary Podoll

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mary Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Maryann Trent

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

MaryJo Woodruff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Matt Komiskey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Matt Meyerhoff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Matt Otto

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Matt Rataczak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Matthew Kinane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Matthew Wiseman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Maureen Stine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Max James Jr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Maysoon Mikha

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the AC Program Committee
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Chairman of Committee
  • East Slope Director

Mechelle Foos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Megan Myers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Melanie Oliver

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Melanie Purcell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Melissa Berry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Melissa Knipfel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Melissa Merritt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Merle Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Michael Casper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Michael Lance

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Michael Morris

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Michelle Jezeski

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Michelle Lohstroh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Michelle Pedano - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Michelle Perez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Officers Team

Michelle Sutherburg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Miguel Cabrera

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mike Doxey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Mike Sucik

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Millie Langley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Mohammad Khakbazan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of the Committee

Molly Conley - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Monday Mbila

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Moussa Siri

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

MS Srinivasan

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Naeem Kalwar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President Elect

Narayanan Kannan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of Committee

Natalie Wolff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Naveen Adusumilli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Board
  • Member of the Committee

Nicholas Biltoft

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Nicholas Comerci

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Nicholas Willis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Nick Strong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Nicole Kubiczki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Niels Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Omololu John Idowu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Pam Billingsley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Pamela Joosse

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Membership Chair / CO - Colorado

Pamela Reid Rhoades

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Patrice Beckwith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Patricia Long

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Patrick Cowsert

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Patrick Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Patrick O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • West Slope Director

Paul Benedict

Job Titles:
  • Council Member
  • Member of the Officers Team

Paul Miller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Paul Rodrigue

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Paul Vainio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Peggie James

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Penny Doty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Perry Oakes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Perry Wilkerson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Peter Marcinuk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Peter Tomlinson

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Peter Wright

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Philip Bauer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Philip Freshley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Philip Heilman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Membership Chair

Phillip McClellan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Quenna Terry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

R. Hugh Caldwell - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

R. John Lackey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

R. Louis Baumhardt - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Rachel Frei - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Rachel Owen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
Rachel Owen is the SWCS Senior Advisor, focused on policy, grants, and overall strategy for the Society. Rachel is a soil scientist who has built a career in policy and social entrepreneurship. She received a PhD in Soil Science from the University of Missouri School of Natural Resources, holds an...

Rachel Schattman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Nominations Committee
  • Member of Committee

Randall Reeder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ravi Teja

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Rebecca Fletcher

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Leadership Committee
  • Member of the AC Program Committee
  • Chairman of the Committee

Rebecca Power

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Chairman and at - Large Director
  • Is Director
  • Member of the Committee
Rebecca Power is Director of the 12-state North Central Region Water Network and leads a range of other water outreach programs at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. During her 20 years with UW-Extension, she co-directed the six-state Great Lakes Regional Water Program and served as a local natural resource educator in the Upper Fox and Wolf River Basins. In each of these positions, her role has been to work with natural resource leaders locally, across the Upper Midwest, and nationally to identify strategic opportunities and develop teams and programs to address those opportunities. Rebecca has been a member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society for over 12 years, served on the SWCS Annual Conference Planning Committee for six years, chaired the Committee for three years, and supported local conference planning for the 2017 conference held in Madison, Wisconsin. She also serves on the SWCS Science and Policy Committee. Rebecca began her career with a private consulting firm restoring savannas, prairies, wetlands in the Upper Midwest, and spent eight years with the US Fish and Wildlife Service using adaptive management strategies in the restoration of savanna ecosystems. She is an active birder and botanizer, now putting her skills to work with the Chiwaukee Prairie Preservation Fund near her home in southeastern Wisconsin. Her free time also goes to art photography and painting as a way to share the wonders of our world with a broader audience.

Rebecca Royal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Rebekah Dewind

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Regina Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Regina Hunt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Renato Cuizon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Renea Dyer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Renee Bouldin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the AC Program Committee
  • Member of Committee
Renee Bouldin is the chapter and community builder of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. She is responsible for chapter outreach and support. Renee also assists with event planning and execution. She started her work with SWCS as the Executive Director of the Southern New England Chapter in 2019.

Renee Cook

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Rich Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Richard Cruse

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Richard Kann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Richard Patterson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Richard Rhoades

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Richard Webb

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ricky Linex

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Rigoberto Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Rob Glazier

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Abercrombie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Bird

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Robert Bush Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Robert Frazee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Glennon - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Robert Glidden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Knight

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Robert Leblanc

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Rennolet

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Roy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert Van Pelt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of Committee

Robin Foulk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Rodney Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Roger Higgs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Roger Kult

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Roger Wolf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of Committee
  • Treasurer and North Central Region Director
Roger Wolf is a lifelong native Iowan, current farmer landowner, and President of Wolf Brothers Wildlife Enterprises, LLC headquartered in Osceola, Iowa. He has over 33 years of professional experience working in soil and water conservation. He started his career as a Watershed Project Coordinator in 1989 working in the Carroll Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and later for the Hardin and Grundy SWCD offices in Iowa. From 1994-2000, Roger served as a conservation and environmental consultant, managing several large grants and working with partners in agriculture, conservation organizations, and a water utility in Iowa. In 2000, he established an Environmental Programs and Services team at the Iowa Soybean Association. Presently, he serves as the Director of Iowa Soybean Association's Research Center for Farming Innovation. Roger strives to advance innovative programming by integrating knowledge development and enhancing cropping systems and resource management with active farmers and collaborators, leading to more resilient agricultural environments. Roger is an active proponent of the One Water Management approach fostering leadership from conservation, agriculture, and the water sector and capitalizing on innovative ways of improving soil health and reducing nutrient loss for more resilient landscapes in Iowa and the Mississippi River Basin. Throughout his career, he has served on a variety of committees and boards, including Co-Chair, Fishers & Farmers Partnership, 2008-2010; Committee Member on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act: Scientific, Modeling, and Technical Aspects of Nutrient Pollutant Load Reduction Allocation and Implementation, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 2009; Steering Committee Member, America's Watershed Initiative, 2010-2013; Board of Directors for the US Water Alliance, 2010-2018; and Advisory Committee Member, Diverse Corn Belt, 2022. Roger is curious and creative and strives to work with people who want to make a lasting impact. He holds a bachelor degree in geography from the University of Iowa.

Ronald Alvarado

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ronald Follett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ronald Hensler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ronald Lauster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ronald Ziehm

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ross Braun

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ross Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Roy Flanagan III

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Russell Hatz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Russell Kleinschmidt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ryan Gerlich

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ryan Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ryan Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

S. Corey Brubaker - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Samuel Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sandy Chenal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sangamesh Angadi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Regional

Sara Sperber

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Nominations Committee

Sarah Ehinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sarah Gray

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sarah Szachnieski - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

Sarah Trichel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sarah Trumbull

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sarah Wright

Job Titles:
  • Student Leader Project Intern
Sarah Wright joined the SWCS staff as the Student Leader Project Intern. Her focus during the internship will be planning a student and early career professional networking session and assisting with operations and logistics of the 78th SWCS International Annual Conference, as well as assisting ARCSE, the intern sponsor, on...

Scott Aldridge - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Scott Bohaty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Scott Fickbohm - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President

Scott Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Chapter Development and Admin Committee Chair

Sean Bloszies

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sean Browning

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sean Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Seth Harden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Shalaine Watson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Shannon Carpenter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Shannon Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sharon Hartzold

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sharon Sawdey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Shawn Springer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sheila Cox

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Shelby Burlew

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Shelby Callaway - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Shelly Lassiter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Shelly Oliphant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sherry Britton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sherry Williford

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President Elect

Shirl Barker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Sindhu Jagadamma

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Committee

Sjoerd Duiker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Skye Wills

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Sonya Miller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Stacy Denny Eneboe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President Elect

Stacy Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Stephanie Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Stephen Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Student Chapt Adv

Stephen Musser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Stephen Prissel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Stephen Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Stephen Woodruff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Steve Brillhart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Steve Kadas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of Committee
  • Regional
  • Southwest Region Director
Steve is the owner/operator of Soil Health LLC. He is currently working with the New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts as their soil health specialist and program manager. Steve retired in 2021 after a 34-year career with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) as the New Mexico State Resource...

Steve Konrady

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Steve Schaub

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President Elect

Steven Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Steven Davied

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Steven Glasgow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Steven Hollister

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Steven Nipper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Stuart Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Susan Kubo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Susan Meadows

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Susan Samson-Liebig

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Susannah Hinds

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tamara Sommer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tamara Swihart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tammy Teeter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Ted Zobeck

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Teresa Hice

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Committee

Teresa Matteson - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

Terry Plucker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tess Musil

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tess Van Gorder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Theo Dillaha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Theresa Bowen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Akin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Basden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Buman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Clemens

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Esgate - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Thomas Fedewa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Martin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Pick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Thomas Wehri

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tibor Horvath

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tim Dring

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tim Harrigan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tim Weltmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Timothy Durham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Timothy Hafner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Timothy Randhir - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Todd Templeton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tom Hebert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tom Schumacher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Nominations Committee

Toni Warren

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tony Arnhold

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tony Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Tracy Cole

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Troy Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Tyrone Larson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Valorie Dupraz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Veronica Schadegg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Von Snelgrove

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Wayne Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Wayne Robbie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Wendy Ogilvie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Will Fett - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team

William Brash Jr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

William Busby

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

William Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Admin
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Zachary Curtis

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Officers Team

Zachary Haverly

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team