| EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Board of Crime Control | | | |
Atty. Gen. Tim Fox | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Attorney General | | |
Sheriff Leo Dutton | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Law Enforcement Representative | | |
Mr. William Dial | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Whitefish | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Law Enforcement Representative | | |
Commissioner Laura Obert | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Townsend | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Local Government, Youth Justice Council Representative | |
Mr. Wyatt Glade | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Miles City | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Law Enforcement Representative | | |
Mr. Tim Brurud | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Havre | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Youth Justice Council Representative
| EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Board of Crime Control Cont. | | |
Ms. Geri Small | Governor | Jackson | 4/5/2017 |
Lame Deer | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Professional & Community Organizations | |
Mr. Jared Charles Cobell | Governor | Aune | 4/5/2017 |
Great Falls | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Representative | | |
Mrs. Adrianne Cotton | Governor | Batista | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2019 |
Qualifications (if required): Law Enforcement Representative | | |
Mrs. Jennie Hansen | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Huntley | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Community Corrections | | |
Ms. Olivia Rieger | Governor | Cashell | 4/5/2017 |
Glendive | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Representative | | |
Mr. Derek J. VanLuchene | Governor | Ross | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2019 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Representative
EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Board of Housing | | | |
Mr. Eric L. Schindler | Governor | Kaercher | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Member informed & experienced in housing, economics, or finance |
Mr. Patrick Edward Melby | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Attorney | | | |
Mr. John Lewis Raymond McClusky | Governor | Crowley | 4/5/2017 |
Billings | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Member informed & experienced in housing, economics, or finance |
Ms. Amber Sundsted | Governor | Firemoon | 4/5/2017 |
Billings | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Member informed & experienced in housing, economics, or finance |
Board of Livestock | | | |
Mr. Ed Waldner | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Chester | | | 3/1/2023 |
Qualifications (if required): Swine producer | | |
Mrs. Nina Baucus | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Wolf Creek | | | 3/1/2023 |
Qualifications (if required): Cattle Producer
| EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Board of Livestock Cont. | | | |
Ms. Susan Marie Brown | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Belgrade | | | 3/1/2023 |
Qualifications (if required): Dairy producer representing the dairy & poultry industry | |
Board of Milk Control | | | |
Mr. Ralph James Parker | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Fairfield | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Not connected to the industry & not a public officer, Democrat | |
Mr. Erik Somerfeld | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Power | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Not connected to the industry & not a public officer, Democrat | |
Mr. Brian Beerman | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Fairfield | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Not connected to the industry & not a public officer, Republican | |
Board of Optometry | | | |
Dr. Marcus H. Kelley | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 4/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Registered Optometrist | | |
Dr. Kristi Schied-Starkey | Governor | New | 4/5/2017 |
Billings | | | 4/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Registered Optometrist
EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Board of Personnel Appeals | | | |
Mr. Quinton Edward Nyman | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Full-time employee or elected official of a labor union | |
Mrs. Anzarina Fontana Moore | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Great Falls | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Management employee | | |
Board of Public Education | | | |
Mrs. Anne Marie Dowling Keith | Governor | Williams | 4/5/2017 |
Bozeman | | | 2/1/2024 |
Qualifications (if required): District 1, Independent | | |
Board of Trustees of the Montana Historical Society | | |
BG (Ret.) Harold Joseph Stearns | Governor | Dennison | 4/5/2017 |
Missoula | | | 7/1/2017 |
Qualifications (if required): Historian | | | |
Mr. Robert J. Phares | Governor | Gross | 4/5/2017 |
Clyde Park | | | 7/1/2020 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Representative
| EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Commission for Human Rights | | |
Mr. Christopher Pope | Governor | Taylor | 4/3/2017 |
Bozeman | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Representative | | |
Ms. Theresa L. Doty | Governor | Howlett | 4/3/2017 |
Butte | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Representative | | |
Mr. Michael Murray | Governor | Tooley | 4/3/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Representative | | |
Ms. Sheri Sprigg | Governor | Wolken | 4/3/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): | Attorney | | |
Fish & Wildlife Commission | | |
Mr. Gregory M. Tollefson | Governor | Wolfe | 4/5/2017 |
Missoula | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): District 1 | | |
Mr. Richard Louis Stuker | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Chinook | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): District 3, Experienced in the breeding & management of domestic livestock
EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Fish & Wildlife Commission Cont. | | | |
Mr. Logan Brower | Governor | Kerstein | 4/5/2017 |
Scobey | | | 1/1/2019 |
Qualifications (if required): District 4 | | | |
Mr. Matthew Tourtlotte | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Billings | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): District 5 | | | |
Livestock Loss Board | | | |
Mr. Seth M. Wilson | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Missoula | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Member of the general public | | |
Mr. Harold James Cross | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Kalispell | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Member of the general public | | |
Ms. Doreen Gillespie | Governor | Klasna | 4/5/2017 |
Ethridge | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Member actively involved in the livestock industry | |
Mental Disabilities Board of Visitors | | | |
Mr. Jeffrey Folsom | Governor | Moll | 4/21/2017 |
Helena | | | 6/30/2018 |
Qualifications (if required): Skills, knowledge, & experience re treatment & welfare of adults with DD, & prof. person
EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Montana Children's Trust Fund Board | | | |
Mr. James Scott Wheeler | Governor | Key | 4/5/2017 |
Kalispell | | | 1/1/2019 |
Qualifications (if required): Public Member | | |
Pacific Northwest Economic Region | | | |
Mr. Cliff Larsen | Governor | Smith | 4/5/2017 |
Missoula | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Designee of the Governor | | |
Public Employees' Retirement Board | | | |
Ms. Julie A. McKenna | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Helena | | | 4/1/2022 |
Qualifications (if required): Public employee who is an active member of a public retirement system |
Rangeland Resources Committee | | | |
Mr. John A. Hollenback | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Gold Creek | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Presiding Officer, Rancher | | |
Mr. Steve Hedstrom | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Raynesford | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Vice Presiding Officer, Rancher
| EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Rangeland Resources Committee Cont. | | |
Ms. Diane Ahlgren | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Mosby | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Rancher from the eastern area of the state | |
Mr. Noel Keogh | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Nye | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Rancher from the southern area of the state | |
Mrs. Connie Iversen | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Culbertson | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Rancher from the northern area of the state | |
Mr. Sigurd M. Jensen | Governor | Gilman | 4/5/2017 |
Elmo | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Rancher from the area of the state west of the continental divide | |
State-Tribal Economic Development Commission | | |
Director Jason Smith | Governor | Reappointed | 4/21/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): State Director of Indian Affairs | | |
Chairman Harry Barnes | Governor | Reappointed | 4/21/2017 |
Browning | | | 7/1/2019 |
Qualifications (if required): Blackfeet Nation Representative
| EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Council | | |
Director Sheila Hogan | Governor | Opper | 4/21/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Director of Public Health & Human Services or may send a designee |
Superintendent Elsie Arntzen | Governor | Juneau | 4/21/2017 |
Helena | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Superintendent of Public Instruction or may send a designee | |
Dr. Ruth Elizabeth Ross | Governor | Reappointed | 4/21/2017 |
Missoula | | | 1/1/2020 |
Qualifications (if required): Member of the public | | |
Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board | | |
Mr. Brian Boland | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Great Falls | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Member of the public who is not an employee of state government |
Mrs. Sara Novak | Governor | Reappointed | 4/5/2017 |
Anaconda | | | 1/1/2021 |
Qualifications (if required): Substitute board member, member of the public, not an employee of state government
Yellowstone River Recreation Project Advisory Council | | |
Ms. Kathleen Aragon | Governor | New | 4/5/2017 |
Billings | | | 12/31/2019 |
Qualifications (if required): Member of the public
| EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES FOR APRIL 2017 | |
Appointee | Appointed By | Succeeds | Appointment/End Date |
Yellowstone River Recreation Project Advisory Council Cont. | | |
Mr. Ted Lovec | Governor | New | 4/5/2017 |
Billings | | | 12/31/2019 |
Qualifications (if required): Member of the public | | |
Youth Justice Council | | | |
Ms. Isabel Hamilton | Governor | New | 4/21/2017 |
Missoula | | | 3/1/2018 |
Qualifications (if required): Under the age of 24
