About the Initiative: Board of Directors

Board of Directors
The St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative is governed by a Partnership Board of Directors, consisting of fifteen to eighteen representatives of firms, organizations, institutions, corporations, agencies, and governmental units, plus six at large individuals having committed to the purpose of the Initiative and pledged to support it.

Regular meeting of the Partnership Board of Directors are held the first Monday of February, April, June, October and December. The Initiative's Annual Meeting is regularly held in late July. The public is welcome to attend.

If you or someone you know is interested in serving the Initiative through leadership on the Board of Directors, please contact Program Manager Sharon Partridge-Hall, (260) 484-5848 x 120.

Bill Word, Chair
Hillsdale County Drain Commissioner
Hillsdale, Michigan

Rodney Renkenberger, Vice-Chair
Director, Maumee River Basin Commission
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Mary Jane Slaton, Treasurer
Director of Stakeholder Relations
City of Fort Wayne Water Utilities

Martha Bishop Ferguson, Secretary
Indiana Master Naturalist and Advanced Master Gardener
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Tom Crowe
Allen County Soil & Water Conservation District
Leo, Indiana

Marvin Dietsch
Williams County Farm Bureau,
Williams County, Ohio

Joe Draper
The Nature Conservancy
Upper St. Joseph River Project
Angola, Indiana

Dr. Robert Gillespie
Department of Biological Sciences, IPFW
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Jerry Hohla
Retired, A & L Great Lakes Laboratory
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Dan Easterday
Dairy Farmer
Camden, Michigan

Bob Koerner
Retired farmer
Bryan, Ohio

Tara Storey, J.D.
Landowner, Allen County
Fort Wayne, Indiana