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THERESA ALLEY (ND) - Enrolled member of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Theresa works for Little Hoop Community College which is located on the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe.
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DENNIS BERCIER (ND) - Low Income Community (LIC) Resident, LIC business owner, ND state senator.
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LORI COWMAN (SD) - Lori Cowman is the economic development planner for Planning & Development District III in Yankton. She also serves as RLF Administrator of the Areawide Business Council, Inc. (ABC), a regional revolving loan fund.
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JIM DOOLITTLE (SD) - Executive Director of Black Hills Community Economic Development, Inc., Rancher.
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JOE DUNN (ND) - Board Chairman Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Cooperative, LIC resident, Farmer-Rancher/Business Owner.
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LORI FINNESAND (SD) - Executive Director of NESDEC
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PAUL GOVIG (ND) - Director, Statewide Program serving LIC's Dept of Commerce-Community Services, former banker, economic development background.
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ED HALL (ND) - Enrolled member of Three Tribes
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CLAYTON HALVERSON (SD) - Farmer, State Representative, lives in LIC (rural Veblen) and is also a board member on Traverse Electric Cooperative and East River Electric Power Cooperative.
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CHRISTINE HAMILTON (SD) - Christine Hamilton owns and operates a large diversified farming and ranching business in South Central South Dakota, Co-founded two groups dedicated to developing South Dakota investments - PrairieGold Ventures and South Dakota Ag Producer Ventures, Board Member Northern Great Plains Initiative for Rural Development.
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GORDON HOFFNER (ND) - President and majority owner of The Union Bank of Beulah, Halliday & Hazen, ND. He has 35 years of banking experience. He worked for Dacotah Bank in Mobridge and Aberdeen for eight years and 27 years at The Union Bank. He presently serves on the Coal Country Community Health Clinic Board and on their executive board, Hill Top Heritage Foundation Board, Halliday Jobs Dev Authority Board and the Independent Community Banks of ND board. He previously served on the ND Bankers Association Board and many other boards.
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ROD HOLTH (ND) - LIC area business owner, KIP Farms in McHenry County-LIC area, Accountant, Licensed Insurance Agent, Chairman of Northern Plains Market Development Company, Board Member of Northern Great Plains, Inc., Board member of the Commercial Vegetable Growers of ND.
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KARLENE HUNTER (SD) - Lakota Fund
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JEFF LAKNER (SD) - 4th-generation farmer/rancher in Wessington, SD, and a 3-time member of Farm Futures magazine "Top 100 Best Managed Farms in the US" financial survey. Steering committee member for a startup ethanol plant in east central SD. Present member of 5 agribusiness, energy, telecommunications, and rural water cooperatives. Collaborated with Harvard Business School as a principal in a case study presented in Jan. '08.
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LESLIE MEHLHAFF (SD) - Was Chief of Staff for Senator Jim Abdnor. Les currently farms in the Tripp area (LLC), Board member for Southeastern Electric.
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MARK MENGENHAUSER (SD) - General Manager of Charles Mix Electric and President of REED Fund Board of Directors, lives in Lake Andes (LIC).
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DAN NOTEBOOM (SD) - Owner of John Deere Dealership, Instrumental in several economic development initiatives. Original board member of Northern Great Plains, Inc.
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KENTON ONSTAD (ND) - LIC Resident, ND State Legislator, County JDA Chairman
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RANDY PARRY (SD) - MCCR - Miner County
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CHERI RATH (SD) - Executive Director of the Value-Added Ag Development Center in Pierre, Board member South Dakota Livestock Foundation.
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TONI ROUILLARD WELLS (SD) - Toni Rouillard lives in Lower Brule (LIC), Planning Director for the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.
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J.D. WILLIAMS (ND) - Lives in Eagle Butte (LIC), manages the Cheyenne River Telephone Cooperative and serves on several Boards.
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