Steering Committee & Working Groups
Steering Committee
Chairman Jim Henry | Deputy to the Governor, State of Tennessee |
Randy McNally | Lieutenant Governor, State of Tennessee |
Beth Harwell | Speaker of the House of Representatives, State of Tennessee |
Dr. John Dreyzehner | Commissioner, Department of Health |
Shari L. Meghreblian, Ph.D. | Commissioner, Department of Environment and Conservation |
Bob Rolfe | Commissioner, Department of Economic and Community Development |
Jai Templeton | Commissioner, Department of Agriculture |
Kevin Triplett | Commissioner, Department of Tourism |
Ed Carter | Executive Director, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency |
Tisha Calabrese-Benton | Deputy Commissioner, Department of Environment and Conservation |
Dr. Ken Moore | Mayor, City of Franklin |
Jim Strickland | Mayor, City of Memphis |
Dr. Philip Oldham | President, Tennessee Technological University |
Jerri S. Bryant | Chancellor, 10th Judicial District |
Jeff Aiken | President, Tennessee Farm Bureau |
Valoria Armstrong | President, Tennessee American Water Co. |
Bill Johnson | President and Chief Executive Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority |
Col. Michael A. Ellicott, Jr. | Commander, USACE Memphis District |
Michael Butler | Chief Executive Officer, Tennessee Wildlife Federation |
Hanneke Counts | Vice President, Eastman Chemical |
Lt. Col. Cullen A. Jones | Commander, USACE Nashville District |
Bob Freudenthal | Executive Director, Tennessee Association of Utility Districts |
W. Scott Gain | Director, US Geological Survey |
Mekayle Houghton | Executive Director, Cumberland River Compact |
Kevin Igli | Senior Vice President, Tyson Foods |
Bo Perkinson | Board President, Tennessee Municipal League |
Ron Taylor | Water Environment Federation, Secretary-Treasurer for Kentucky/Tennessee |
Daniel Mecklenborg | Ingram Barge Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer |
Working Groups
Focusing on storage capacity or supply, uses by sector and by basin.
Jim Cameron, Chair | Board of Water Quality, Oil & Gas |
Thanos Papanicolaou, Co-Chair | Hydraulics and Sedimentation Lab University of Tennessee |
Dr. L. Yu Lin | Surface Water Institute Director Christian Brothers University |
Jimmy Moody | Cold Creek Farms |
Rich Cochran | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Steve Bartell | Cardno (Infrastructure and Environmental Services) |
Forbes Walker | University of Tennessee |
Alfred Kalyanapu | Tennessee Tech University |
Claudio Meier | University of Memphis, Civil Engineering Dept |
Mark Hilty | City of Franklin, Public Works |
Jeff Fore | Nature Conservancy |
Curt Jawdy | TN Valley Authority |
Sam Marshall | TN Dept of Agriculture |
Dan Mecklenborg | Ingram Barge |
Doug Murphy | Duck River Agency |
Anthony Rodino | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
James W. Cameron | Chair, Board of Water Quality, Oil, and Gas |
Focusing on the assessment of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure
Bob Freudenthal, Chair | TN Association of Utility Districts |
Drexel Heidel, Co-Chair | West Knox Utility District |
Elaine Boyd | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Darren Gore | Murfreesboro Water Resources |
Mike Bernard | Smith Seckman Reid (Nashville) |
Nick Newman | Memphis Light, Gas & Water |
Seth Rye | Smith Seckman Reid (Nashville) |
Michael Adams | Water Authority of Dickson County |
Louis Robbins | GRW (Engineering, architecture, geospatial)(Nashville) |
Anthony Pelham | City of McMinnville |
Harold Cannon | Cannon and Cannon (civil engineering, transportation, and field surveying) (Knoxville) |
Ron Taylor | Water Environment Federation |
Kevin Kruchinski | TN American Water |
Terry Bobrowski | East TN Development District |
Focusing on ecological and natural resources and endangered species
Mike Butler, Chair | TN Wildlife Federation |
Sally Palmer, Co-Chair | Nature Conservancy, Tennessee Chapter |
David Salyers | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Shari Meghreblian | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Jenny Adkins | Natural Resources Conservation Service |
Jonathan Boggs | Arbor Springs Forestry |
Keith Cole | Wolf River Conservancy |
Evan Crews | TN Valley Authority |
Jason Henegar | TN Wildlife Resources Agency |
Mekayle Houghton | Cumberland River Compact |
David McKinney | TN Wildlife Resource Agency |
Chris Nischan | Trout Unlimited |
Ed Penny | Ducks Unlimited, Southern Region |
Jane Polansky | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Keith Sanford | Tennessee Aquarium |
Dennis Tumlin | Rhea County Economic Development |
Jennifer Watson | TN Stormwater Association |
Greer Tidwell | Bridgestone |
Brian Bivens | Bivens and Associates, LLC |
Lindsay Gardner | TN Wildlife Federation |
Jeremy Nelson | 3 Rivers Angler |
Dennis Tumlin | Rhea County Economic Development |
Tiffany Foster | TN Valley Authority |
Focusing on supply, public and private uses of the Memphis Sands and other aquifers
Brian Waldron, Chair | Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering |
Tom Needham, Co-Chair | Shelby County Public Works |
David Salyers | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Andy Binford | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Ron Zurawski | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
John Butler | Agricenter (Research, Education, Conservation) |
Jim Bellas | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
Nick Newman | Memphis Light, Gas & Water |
Dave Berretta | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Memphis District) |
Rimas Augustinas | Riviana Foods, Inc. |
Robert Kneckt | City of Memphis |
John McClurkan | TN Dept of Agriculture |
Skip Taylor | Fayette County |
Eddie O'Neil | Jackson Energy Authority |
Kevin Hensley | TN Farm Bureau Federation |
Ward Archer | Protect Our Aquifer |
Amanda Bowen | TN Valley Authority |
Cory Holiday | The Nature Conservancy |
Focusing on the laws and agencies responsible for stewardship of water resources in Tennessee
Sohnia Hong, Chair | Office of the TN Attorney General |
Greg Young, Co-Chair | Burr & Forman |
Kendra Abkowitz | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Grant Ruhl | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Lynnisse Roehrich-Patrick | TN Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations |
Amber Rudolphi | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
John Chlarson | Municipal Technical Advisory Service |
Anne Passino | Southern Environmental Law Center |
Alan Leiserson | Underground Storage Tanks and Solid Waste Disposal Control Board (ret. TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff) |
Don Scholes | TN Association of Utility Districts |
Maria Gillen | TN Valley Authority |
Robert Steele | Baker Donelson |
Theresa Denton | TN Dept of Agriculture |
John Greer (ad hoc) | Comptroller’s Office |
John Dawson | Bass, Berry & Sims |
Providing centralized data collection and support to all working groups
Brenda Brickhouse, Chair | TN Valley Authority |
Charles Sims, Co-Chair | UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy |
Britton Dotson | TN Dept of Environment & Conservation Staff |
Tania Datta | Tennessee Tech University |
Lynnisse Roehrich-Patrick | TN Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations |
Tiffany Foster | TN Valley Authority |
Leetha Abazid | TN Valley Authority |
Jennifer Barrie | TN Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations |
LaKiesha Cosey | TN Valley Authority |
Kurt Stafford | TN American Water |
Jilleah Welch | UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy |