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 |