Dr. Vicki H. Holmberg
2008 KCC President


  Dr. David Wicks
member, KCC Board of Directors and Chair of the Annual Meeting Committee


Ray Barry
member, KCC Board  of Directors


Russ Barnett
member , KCC board of Directors and Chair KCC Affiliate Program

Dr. Ramesh Bhatt
KCC Treasurer

Dr. Greg Kuhns
member, KCC Board of Directors


Bruce Scott
Immediate Past President and Newsletter Editor

Dr. William Bryant
member, KCC Board of Directors

Rick Clewett
member, KCC Board of Directors

Andy McDonald
member, KCC Board of Directors

Lisa Satin
member, KCC Board of Directors

Melissa Taylor Dresler
member, KCC Board of Directors

 

2009 KCC Board of Directors

Russ Barnett.
Russ is a KCC Past President (2002-2003) and member since 1980. He is Director of the Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development at the University of Louisville. Formerly, he was Deputy Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection; EPA Scientist, Atlanta; Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg. Currently, Russ is the Chair of the Salt River Watershed Watch and a Sierra Club member.

Ray Barry.
Ray has served KCC for ten years in various roles, including President, Treasurer, Secretary and Newsletter Editor. He has been a member of the Sierra Club since 1984, where he served in various roles as an outings leader, chapter and group conservation chair and is, currently, Chair of the Cumberland Chapter.

Ramesh Bhatt.
Ramesh has been on the KCC Board for about 10 years and its Treasurer for the last six. He has also held various leadership positions in the Sierra Club, and has been a member of many national and international environmental organizations for over 30 years.

William S. Bryant, Ph.D.
Bill is Professor Emeritus of Biology, Thomas More College. Dr Bryant retired in May, 2008 after 37 years teaching (1971-2008), including more than 12 years as chairman. Bill received his PhD in Botany from Southern Illinois University. He has maintained professional memberships in KY. Academy of Science (8 years on the Board of Directors, President 1996, numerous committees) and The Nature Conservancy-KY Chapter (one of the founders, first V-P, Chairman (3 years.). Bill has served on the Kenton Conservancy, a local land trust (President until 2008), as well as on numerous KY State boards including Kentucky Environment Education Council, Biodiversity Task Force, and the Heritage Land Conservation Fund Board. Dr. Bryant has 60 peer-reviewed publications on various aspects of natural history in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to memberships in numerous scientific organizations, he has also been active in historical organizations, including KY. Historical Society, Ohio Historical Society, Cincinnati Historical Society, and Anderson County Historical Society (current chairman). He has received numerous awards for teaching and conservation work, and currently resides in Lawrenceburg with his wife, Barbara.

Rick Clewett
Rick Clewett holds B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees in English from the University of Chicago. He is Professor Emeritus in the Eastern Kentucky University, where he taught from 1969 to 2008, helping to found the Honors Program, serving as Acting Chair of Foreign Languages, and Coordinator for the English Department's MA program. In recent years he has been active on the Cumberland Sierra Club's Energy Committee and its Mountaintop Removal Taskforce. He also the Chair of the chapter's Political/Legislative Committee. On the national level, he is a member of the Sierra Club's Leadership Development Team, its Activist Network Training Team, and its Beyond Coal Campaign Leadership Team. He is a writer, amateur nature photographer, and practitioner of meditation and yoga. He lives in Lexington with his wife, Diana.

Vicki Holmberg.
Vicki is a practicing physician. Currently the President of the KCC, Vicki is a specialist in Emergency Medicine. For over 25 years she has been a provider of rural health care in Colorado, West Virginia and Kentucky. She is a lifelong outdoorswoman and conservation advocate. She lives in Lexington with her husband and two children, and is a member of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

Greg Kuhns.
Greg is a retired physician and for 30 years served as a pathologist at Norton Hospital in Louisville. He has been active in conservation efforts, including the Salt River Watershed Watch, and the Salt River Basin Team; as well as serving on the boards of the Kentucky Natural Land Trust, the Kentucky Woodland Owners Association, and the Kentucky Tree Farm Committee of the American Tree Farm System. The Kuhns’ family tree farm in Bullitt County was recognized as the Kentucky Tree Farm of the Year (1999), and was runner up for the Regional (multi-state) Tree Farm of the Year. It was awarded the Kentucky Landowner of the Year by the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Department for wildlife management and habitat improvement. A portion of the farm was recently sold to the Kentucky Division of Forestry to form the new Knobs State Forest, adjacent to the Camp Crooked Creek Boy Scout Reservation and Bernheim Forest. Greg is a Sierra Club member.

William Martin.
Bill is the current Chairman of the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund and resides in Lexington. He was formerly Commissioner of the Department for Natural Resources. Bill is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University, where he was Director of the Division of Natural Areas and Professor of Biology, from 1969 until 2005. Bill is a charter member of KCC, having been there at the inception of the group, and this is his third term on the board.

Andy McDonald.
Andy is currently the Coordinator of the Kentucky Solar Partnership (KSP) which actively promotes the use of solar energy. Andy helped author the updated net metering law passed in 2008 (SB 83). The KSP is a project of Appalachia--Science in the Public Interest. He is also the Chair of the Kentucky Solar Energy Society and a co-founder of the Frankfort Climate Action Network. Andrew received his MS from Slippery Rock University in Sustainable Systems, drives a diesel car converted to run on vegetable oil, and supports the Frankfort Farmers Market.

Lisa Satin.
Lisa Satin obtained a law degree from Northwestern University. She managed a national academic conference for The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and has extensive experience in fund-raising, compliance, grant writing, event-planning, program development and public relations. She has worked for the University of Kentucky Office Of Research Integrity, researching federal regulations and insuring ethics compliance. Lisa currently sits on the Steering Committee of Bluegrass Partnership for a Green Community and is a Board member of Ohavay Zion Synagogue and the Lexington Chapter of Hadassah. She lives in Lexington with her husband and two children.

Bruce W Scott.
Currently, Bruce is the President of the Kentucky Waterways Alliance. He retired from state government in 2003 as Director of Mental Health. Bruce has served as President of the KCC. Bruce lives in Frankfort and is a writer and a musician.

Melissa Taylor Dresler.
Melissa Taylor Dresler holds degrees from Smith College and Tufts University in association with Harvard University. She participated in a US government contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Her contributions there included authoring chapters in the IPCC Second Assessment Report on nontidal wetlands and freshwater ecology. Melissa has also worked at the United Nations Office at Geneva Switzerland, participating in international diplomacy, negotiating the climate change treaty; and in Los Angeles on projects for the USGS and FEMA, related to earthquake risk assessment and national policy. She was Deputy Executive Director for the National Assessment Office of the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) in Washington DC, under leadership of the White House. An experienced speaker and researcher, Melissa has authored works on the human health effects related to particulate matter, and for the Journal of Renewable Resources. Melissa was the lead author of the Blackacre Executive Summary, featured on the KCC website. Residing in Lexington with her daughter, Madison, she contributes to the community as a school volunteer and in pet rescue and rehabilitation.  

David Wicks.
Since 1980, David is the founder and current director of the Jefferson County Public Schools Center for Environmental Education. He is the co-Director of the University of Louisville Center for Environmental Education; on the steering committee for the Partnership for a Green City; a Past President of the North American Association for Environmental Education and a three times President of the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education. His wife Fife is a third grade teacher at Jeffersontown Elementary and they have three children, Dakota, Chelsea, and Graeme. His passion is paddling.

Jack Wilson.
Jack Wilson retired in 2002 after more than thirty-five years of public service, nineteen of which were spent with the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet. Jack was Deputy& Commissioner of Environmental Protection, and for thirteen years was Director of the Division of Water. He spent several years in the private sector with environmental consulting firms and three years with the Ohio EPA. Jack began public service as a Peace Corps administrator and concluded as Peace Corps Director of the Fiji Islands. A long time member of environmental groups, he is past Chair of the Trustees of the Kentucky Nature Conservancy.

Pamla Wood.
Pamla joined the KCC board in 2008. She has been assisting organizations to develop and problem-solve around resource management and other issues for decades. Pamla is retired from the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection, where she specialized in water quantity management and watershed protection. She is a Watershed Watch volunteer, serves on the board of the Friends of Griffith Woods in their restoration project, and helped establish the Kentucky Resources Council. Pamla is a beginning farmer in Mercer County and a serious student of ballet and modern dance, having founded Motion Matters.