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.
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.
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.
David J. Brule, Sr., of Iron Mountain, is president and CEO of Northern Star Industries, Inc. and began his career as a division engineer with Wisconsin Public Service in Green Bay. Mr. Brule earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1972. In 1973 he joined M.J. Electric as a project engineer and over the next several years received several management and administrative promotions, which culminated with his appointment as president and CEO in 1991. He continued as president of the company after it was acquired by Exelon Infrastructure Services, Inc. in 2000.
Mr. Brule is a lifetime member of the MTU Alumni Association and was elected to the University's Electrical Engineering Academy in 1996. He has served with Friends of Handicapped People, the Interlochen Arts Academy Presidents Council, the Dickinson Area Catholic School Board, and the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Rotary Club. Mr. Brule has also served on the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Iron Mountain and as director of the U.P. Construction Labor-Management Council.
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.
Rodger A. Kershner is of counsel to the law firm of Howard and Howard, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Until 2002, he was senior vice president and general counsel of the CMS Energy Corporation, parent corporation of Consumers Energy and many other energy industry businesses in the U.S. and abroad. In 1989, Mr. Kershner was elected vice president and general counsel of CMSI international energy subsidiary, CMS Enterprises, and was elected deputy general counsel of CMS Energy in 1994. Mr. Kershner has a doctor of laws degree, cum laude, from the Detroit College of Law and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Wayne State University. He served as law clerk to Chief Judge Robert Danof of the Michigan Court of Appeals, served as assistant public defender for Washtenaw County, and was assistant general counsel for ANR Pipeline Company in Detroit before joining CMS Energy. Mr. Kershner has served on the board of directors of The Oxford Energy Company. In addition to membership in a number of international, national, and state legal organizations and committees, he is a member at large of the Detroit Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. He resides in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Ruth A. Reck is Director of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) and Professor at the University of California at Davis. Before joining NIGEC, 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 U.S. delegate to SCOPE (Scientific Council on Problems of the Environment) with the United Nations; and has written extensively on environmental issues (over 150 major publications). She holds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
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.