Board
of Directors
The Michigan Land Use Institute’s board is a diverse
and talented group of proven leaders who devote time and energy to helping
us help you.
BOB SUTHERLAND, Chairman, of Glen Arbor is founder and president of Cherry
Republic, an inter-national distributor of specialty cherry products. He
also is an active environmental advocate in Leelanau County.
DEBORAH J. ROHE, Secretary, of Petoskey is a respected child care consultant
and grassroots organizer, who helps lead the Institute’s effort to
promote an alternative to a bypass around Petoskey.
RICHARD J. HITCHINGHAM, Treasurer, of Manistee County, is a founding Institute
member, who chairs the Springdale Township Planning Commission and works
as a bookkeeper after retiring from trust investment analysis.
RALPH GRAHAM of Bloomfield Hills is a retired entrepreneur and co-founder
with his wife, Jeanne Graham, of the Clannad Foundation, which funds the
Institute’s Grassroots Support Center.
MAUREEN MARTIN of Ann Arbor is development director for Detroit’s Henry
Ford Museum and Greenfield Village and is the former development director
for the Michigan chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
HELEN MILLIKEN of Traverse City is recognized as one of the state’s
visionary conservation leaders. She also served as Michigan’s first
lady from 1969 to 1983, the tenure of Governor William G. Milliken.
ROBERT OTWELL of Traverse City is an environmental engineer and
chairman of the Traverse City Planning Commission. He recently co-founded
a community-based car sharing service.
VIRGINIA B. PIERCE of Prudenville, a wildlife biologist, is co-founder of
the Michigan Resource Stewards and a veteran of nearly 20 years at the Michigan
departments of natural resources and environmental quality.
HOWARD TANNER, Ph.D. of Haslett served as the director of the
Michigan Department of Natural Resources from 1975 to 1983 and was a fisheries
and wildlife professor at Michigan State University.
JOHN VINKEMULDER of Grand Rapids is a financial consultant and first vice
president of investments at Merrill Lynch. A committed conservationist,
he also serves as president-elect of the Michigan chapter of The Nature
Conservancy.
HANS VOSS of Elberta is the Institute’s executive director. He joined
the staff in 1995 and led the Michigan Energy Reform Coalition’s statewide
campaign for sensitive oil and gas development.
KAREN WILLARD of Algonac is an attorney and former three-term Democratic
state representative, who has championed several environmental issues, including
drain code reform.
WILLARD WOLFE of Frankfort is a retired dentist who played a key role with
his wife, Joan Wolfe, in passing the 1972 Inland Lakes and Streams Act and
the 1970 Michigan Environmental Protection Act.
TIMOTHY YOUNG of Honor is founder and president of the speciality preserves
company, Food for Thought, and is a former chairman of the Northern Michigan
Environmental Action Council.
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