Russell Gronevelt is the president of Orchard Hiltz & McCliment, Inc., a civil engineering consulting firm headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, which employs over 200 engineers and technicians. Prior to joining OHM, Mr. Gronevelt served 11 years as the assistant county executive for Wayne County, Michigan. In this position, Mr. Gronevelt was the executive in charge of the fifth largest public works organization in the nation. His responsibilities included overseeing the Detroit Metropolitan and Willow Run airports, 1,800 miles of state and local roads, four wastewater systems, the Wayne County park system and other county infrastructure.
Mr. Gronevelt earned his Master in Science degree in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University in 1982, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 1969.
Mr. Gronevelt served on the Michigan Technological University Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Advisory Board, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Tech Fund, and an active member of ACEC, APWA, and ASCE.
Mr. Gronevelt was awarded America's Top Ten Public Works Administrators in 1994, and was inducted into MTU's Academy of Civil and Environmental Engineers in 2002.
Marty Richardson earned a MS in Business Administration from Michigan Tech and is president of Services Marketing Specialists, Inc., a Detroit-based consulting firm that specializes in marketing for professional service firms and business-to-business markets.
She serves on a number of boards of directors, including the Detroit Medical Center, the Lutheran Social Services of Michigan Foundation, Leadership Detroit, the Greater Detroit Foreign Trade Zone, and is an advisory board member of the Detroit Historical Society. She is a past president of the Women's Economic Club of Detroit and is an active member of the National Association of Women Business Owners. She lives in Grosse Pointe Park.
Lenora Ashford holds a Bachelor of Science from Central State University
in Wilberforce, Ohio, and a Master of Education from Wayne State
University. She is principal of Lewis Cass Technical High School in
Detroit. Honored as an Outstanding Educator by the Detroit Public
Schools seven times, she also has been honored with several other
education awards and has taught high school biology, physical science,
and earth science in the Detroit Public Schools. She helped develop the
curriculum for the Detroit Science Center Super Summer Science Camp and
the high school curriculum for the Detroit Area Pre-college Engineering
Program (DAPCEP), an engineering preparatory program with close ties to
Michigan Tech.
Thomas Baldini is district director for US Representative Bart Stupak, a position he has held since 2003. He also served as education advisor and special assistant to former Michigan Governor James Blanchard. He has worked as assistant to the superintendent for personnel and finances of the Marquette Area Public Schools and has taught high school and university political science in Marquette.
In 1994, he was appointed chair of the US section of the International Joint Commission for Canada and the US, by then-President Bill Clinton. He also served as US commissioner for the International Boundary Commission for the US and Canada, another presidential appointment.
Baldini is a founding member and vice president of the Economic Club of Marquette County, a founding member of the Marquette Community Foundation and a member of the Marquette Area Public School Foundation. He has won the Mount Arvon Award for Conservation Leadership, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Northern Michigan University and a Distinguished Public Service Award from the American Association of University Professors
Kathryn Clark is a senior scientist at NASA, working in the field of human exploration and development of space enterprise. Dr. Clark's primary scientific interests are neuromuscular development and adaptation to altered environments. She earned master's and doctor degrees from the University of Michigan and then joined the faculty of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in 1993, from which she is on leave. She has served as deputy director of the NASA Commercial Space Center, The Center for Microgravity Automation Technology, which provides imaging technology for the space station. Dr. Clark received the Outstanding International Award from Women in Aerospace and was recently inducted into the National Women's Museum in Dallas. Dr. Clark is a pilot and is a member of the International Society of Women Pilots. Dr. Clark is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
Stephen Hicks is president and CEO of J. M. Longyear LLC, a natural
resources company with interests in the upper Midwest and Canada. He is
also vice chairman of Minnesota Steel Industries. Hicks brings more than
twenty years of experience in businesses focused on natural resources to
the Board. An alumnus of Michigan Tech, Hicks graduated in 1983 with a
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting and is a
graduate of the University of Michigan Business School Executive
Program. He has served on Michigan Tech’s School of Forest Resources and
Environmental Science Advisory Committee and Building Expansion
Committee. He has also served as chair of the Michigan Forest Products
Council.
Dr. Ruth A. Reck is a professor at the University of California at Davis and is the former director of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC). Prior to that, Dr. Reck was the director of Argonne National Laboratory’s Global Climate Change Program and was serving a two-year term as the laboratory’s Women in Science Program Initiator. As a spokesperson and internal consultant on environmental issues related to the greenhouse effect and stratospheric ozone depletion, she has served on numerous review boards and subcommittees for the National Science Foundation and Argonne National Laboratory; was a US delegate to SCOPE (Scientific Council on Problems of the Environment) with the United Nations; and has written extensively on environmental issues (more than 150 major publications). She holds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota.