The Board
of Directors of 1000 Friends of Florida is made up of leaders from around
the state who are dedicated, respected advocates of effective growth
management. The organization's goal is to include on its board a broad
representation of Floridians, emphasizing geographic diversity as well
as a mix of backgrounds, experience and expertise.
Officers
Victoria
Tschinkel, Chairman
of Tallahassee, is the past State Director of the Florida Chapter
of The Nature Conservancy. Tschinkel served as a senior consultant specializing
in environmental matters with the law firm of Landers and Parsons from
1988 - 2002 and as Secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental
Regulation from 1981 to 1987. She is a member of the National Academy
of Public Administration, serves on the Advisory Board of the National
Renewables Energy institute and was a member of National Commission
on the Environment. Ms. Tschinkel currently serves on the National Academy
of Sciences Board on IRadioactive Waste Management, and the boards of
directors of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, and ConocoPhillips
Company.
Timothy
Jackson, Vice Chairman
is president of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., a community planning
consulting firm in Orlando, Atlanta, and West Palm Beach. Jackson is
a professional engineer and planner who consults in the areas of comprehensive
planning and transportation planning, including multimodal plans, corridor
studies, context sensitive design, land use plans, and long range vision-based
plans. He is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
and the Congress for New Urbanism.
F. Gregory
Barnhart, Secretary
of West Palm Beach, received his A.B. from Vassar College and J.D. from
Cornell University, and has been a partner in Searcy Denney Scarola
Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., in West Palm Beach since 1981. He has
held numerous offices with the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, including
serving as its president from 1993-1994. He has served on the boards
of the Florida Lawyers Action Group, Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
Research and Education Foundation, as president of the Federal Bar Association,
Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach
County and other professional organizations. Mr. Barnhart is a regularly
published author and lecturer in the field of trial law and advocacy,
and is listed in the national publication The Best Lawyers in America.
J. Allison
DeFoor, II, Treasurer
is a seventh-generation Floridian and lives at Wakulla Springs. He has
a BA in geography and MA in criminology from the University of South
Florida, law degree from Stetson, and a M.Div. and D.Min. from the South
Florida Center for Theological Studies. He is the current State Coordinator
for EarthBalance, a national environmental restoration firm. He is a
well-known conservationist, a businessman, Florida historian, a former
county and circuit judge and Sheriff of Monroe County. Dr. DeFoor was
the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor in 1990, as running-mate to
Gov. Bob Martinez. As Governor Bush's "Everglades Czar" he
put together the largest land restoration project in world history.
He has been active in business, and served on the boards of numerous
corporations and a bank. He serves as a governor of the Florida Chamber
of Commerce and a director of TaxWatch and Associated Industries of
Florida. He was president of the Florida Keys Land & Sea Trust,
also of the Florida Land Trust Association, a director of Florida Audubon,
and was recipient of its "Chairman's Award" in 1999. He was
named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in America in 1985. He has
taught at numerous colleges, including 15 years at University of Miami
Law School, Florida A&M and lectured most recently at Yale and Penn.
He has been a trustee of two colleges. He has authored 10 books and
numerous journal articles including one mid-19th century Florida history.
Board
Members Emeritus
John
M. DeGrove, President Emeritus
of Gainesville, is the first holder of the John M. DeGrove Eminent Scholar
Chair in Growth Management and Development at Florida Atlantic University
(FAU). DeGrove served as the founding director of FAU/FIU Joint Center
for Environmental and Urban Problems from 1972-1998. He is a professor
with FAU's Department of Political Science, a leading figure in Florida
growth management, and a nationally recognized authority in the fields
of planning and public administration. As Secretary of Florida's Department
of Community Affairs (1983-1985), he was instrumental in the conception
and passage of the 1985 Growth Management Act and the State Comprehensive
Plan. His memberships include the National Academy of Public Administration,
the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified
Planners. He served as an advisor to the state/regional/local planning
and growth management systems in the states of California, Georgia,
Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maryland,
Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas
and Canada. A frequent contributor to a variety of journals and law
reviews, some of Dr. DeGrove's publications include Planning Policy
and Politics: Smart Growth and the States, Land, Growth and Politics
and The New Frontier for Land Policy: Planning and Growth Management
in the States. DeGrove was a member of the Governor's Commission for
a Sustainable South Florida and Chairman of the Commission's Committee
on Urban Form, Intergovernmental Coordination and Governance.
Nathaniel
Reed, Chairman Emeritus
of Hobe Sound, is a former member and Vice Chairman of the National
Audubon and The Nature Conservancy Boards, and the Natural Resources
Defense Council. He presently serves on the boards of the National Geographic
Society, Hope Rural School, and the Everglades Foundation. Reed served
as Chairman of the Florida Department of Air and Water Pollution Control
from 1968-71 and as Assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1971-77.
Governor Martinez chose him as chairman of the Commission on the Future
of Florida's Environment which recommended Preservation 2000 the most
ambitious land acquisition effort in our nation's history. Two million
preserved acres later, the program has wide public support. He served
on numerous state and private commissions: most recently as co-chairman
of the Urban Land Institute's recent study of how Florida counties should
improve cooperative and coordination of the Florida Greenways Commission.
He is a past member of the governing board of the South Florida Water
Management District, with whose service spanned 14 years. In April 1994,
Reed received the Alexander Calder Distinguished Achievement Award.
Board
of Directors
Lester
Abberger, of Tallahassee is a senior consultant to the D. A. Davidson
investment banking firm, managing partner of Florida Lobby Associates,
and vice president of Hometown Neighborhoods, a new urbanist real estate
consulting and development concern. He is a trustee of the National
Trust for the Humanities, chairman of the City of Tallahassee's Urban
Design Commission, chairman of the Seaside Institute, chairman of the
Trust for Public Land Florida Advisory Council, chairman of the Florida
Conservation Campaign, and a trustee of the LeRoy Collins Institute.
He serves on the boards of Fugelberg Koch Architects, M & S Bank,
the Museum of Florida History and the Leon County Public Library System.
He is a graduate of Davidson College, where he serves on the Board of
Visitors, and is a Knight Fellow at the University of Miami School of
Architecture.
Kathy
Castor, of Tampa, is a native of Florida and graduate of Chamberlain
High School in Tampa. Ms. Castor has a bachelor's degree from Emory
University in political science and a law degree from Florida State
University of Law. Prior to being elected to serve in the U.S. Congress
representing Florida's 11th congressional district, she served on the
Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners from 2002-2006. Before that,
she was in private practice with a local law firm, and was the Assistant
General Counsel to the Florida Department of Community Affairs in Tallahassee
from 1991 to 1994. Commissioner Castor served as Chair of the Environmental
Protection Commission of Hillsborough County from 2004 to 2005 and as
a member of The Tampa Bay Water Regional Water Supply Authority from
2002 to 2004. Commissioner Castor serves on the MacDill Air Force Base
Land Use Study Committee, Agency on Bay Management, Arts Council, Hillsborough
Area Regional Transit Authority, Hillsborough Metropolitan Planning
Organization (MPO), Old Gandy Bridge Oversight Committee (Friendship
Trail), and is the Commission liaison to the Southwest Florida Water
Management District. In
addition to co-authoring a number of articles and publications, she
has served as pro bono counsel to the Lowry Park Zoo and the Florida
Battered Women's Clemency Project. As the Project's first pro bono counsel,
she won clemency from the Governor and Cabinet for her client under
a program initiated by the late Governor Lawton Chiles. She was awarded
the 2005 Government Tampa Bay Business Woman of the Year by the Tampa
Bay Business Journal.
Robert
S. Davis, is the founder of Seaside, Florida, described by Time
magazine as " .the most astonishing design achievement of its era
and one might hope, the most influential." As the birthplace of
a growing movement in land planning known as The New Urbanism, Seaside's
influence has spread widely and is helping to revolutionize town planning
in America. Seaside has won numerous awards for its architecture and
town planning and has been the subject of three books and countless
articles. Mr. Davis is a recipient of the Rome Prize, Florida's Governor's
Award and Coastal Living's Conservation Award for Leadership. He is
a principal in The Arcadia Land Company, a firm specializing in town
building and land stewardship. Mr. Davis serves on the Boards of Directors
for The Congress for The New Urbanism and The Seaside Institute,. He
has served on Florida's Environmental Land Management Study Committee
to write and update Florida's growth management legislation and on The
Governor's Council for Sustainable Florida. A graduate of Antioch College
and the Harvard Business School, Mr. Davis is also a Fellow of the American
Academy in Rome and the Institute of Urban Design.
Michael
Garretson, of Ft. Lauderdale is the Deputy Superintendent for the
Broward County School District. He has extensive experience in planning
and development in both the public and private sectors. He has served
as Director of Planning for both Broward County and the City of Jacksonville.
He was also Director of the Division of Resource Planning and Management
in the Department of Community Affairs. In the private sector he has
worked for several large community development companies and was Director
of Area Development for the Euro Disney project outside Paris.
Milissa
Holland, of Palm Coast is the first woman elected to the Flagler
County Board of County Commissioners. She is Chair and CFO of the James
F. Holland Foundation, which provides grants and supports programs for
children of Flagler County. She also serves on the boards of the Management
Advisory Group for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research
Reserve (GTMNERR), Executive Board of Directors of Enterprise Flagler,
Partnership with the University of Florida for Water, Agriculture, and
Community Sustainability at "Hastings" Advisory Committee,
and the Flagler County Sexual Assault Task Force. She is a former member
of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Florida Regional Planning
Council.
James
C. Nicholas, of Gainesville, has been with the University of Florida
as the Co-Director of Growth Management Studies from 1985-92. He was
a faculty member at Florida Atlantic University Department of Economics
from 1969-85. Dr. Nicholas is the former Associate Director and Acting
Director of the Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems. He
is a member of the American Economic Association, American Planning
Association, Urban Land Institute Executive Council, Southern Economics
Associations, and the American Real Estate & Urban Economics Association.
Dr. Nicholas received his B.B.A., M.A. from the University of Miami
and his Ph.D., from the University of Illinois.
Steve
Pfeiffer, of Sarasota, serves as General Counsel to New College
of Florida in Sarasota. He received his undergraduate degree from the
University of Virginia and his Juris-Doctorate from the University of
Florida. Prior to joining New College, he was engaged in the private
practice of law in Tallassee, specializing in administrative law and
land use law. He was formerly Assistant Secretary at the Florida Department
of Community Affairs, a Hearing Officer at the Division of Administrative
Hearings, Legal Director and General Counsel for 1000 Friends of Florida,
and General Counsel to the Department of Community Affairs. Mr. Pfeiffer
has taught Administrative Law and Growth Management Law at the law school
at Florida State University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of
the Florida Conflicts Resolution Consortium. He served as the first
Chair of the Florida Building Commission in 1998-1999. He was Chair
of the Administrative Law Section of the Florida Bar in 1992-1993, and
he chaired Florida's Sixth Administrative Law Conference in 1988.
Sibille
Hart Pritchard, of Orlando, is Senior Vice President of Brooksville
Development Corporation. She is Vice-Chairman of The Florida Arts Council
and was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush as Commissioner of the Seminole
County Housing Authority. She also serves on the Board of Governors
of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and on the Community Board of the
Florida State University Medical School. She is the President of the
Preserve Eatonville Community and the Zora Neale Hurston Festival. She
is married to Dr. Peter Pritchard, a world renowned conservationist
and expert on turtles.
Terry Turner, of Sarasota,
is currently an elected commissioner for the City of Sarasota Florida and a board member for the Sarasota/Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization. Terry is a past member of Sarasota County’s Land Planning Authority, Committee for Economic Development, and its Environmentally Sensitive Lands Oversight Committee. He is a past member of the Manatee-Sarasota Sierra Club Conservation Committee and is past Board Chair of the Nature Conservancy of Florida. Terry had an extensive career in banking working most recently as managing director at First Union National Bank. He has also served as managing director at Bankers Trust Co. and as Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Bank of America. Prior to his career in banking, Terry taught finance and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and he worked in the engineering department at Eastman Kodak.
He completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree at Ohio University, received an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Carnegie-Mellon University.
C. Allen
Watts, of Daytona Beach,
is an attorney concentrating on land use, administrative law and local
government matters. He is a partner in Cobb & Cole, where he chairs
the environmental and land use department. He is a board-certified expert
in city, county and local government law, and has served as counsel
to numerous counties, county charter commissions, new and existing cities,
and school districts. He has helped form consensus on problems as varied
as education concurrency, wetlands and habitat conservation, solid waste
management, transportation funding and utility financing.
Paul
Zwick, Ph.D.of Gainesville is the Associate Dean of the Department of
Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. His
research focuses on the use of geographic information systems in urban
and environmental planning and engineering. Along with his associate,
Peggy Carr, Zwick was one of the primary researchers on 1000 Friends'
Florida 2060 report. He has helped lead the development of environmental
geographic information systems for the Florida Department of Transportation
and for the Florida Geographic Data Library, and to locate greenway
corridors and recreational trails in Florida and the Southeast. Zwick
has his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science and his M.A. in Urban
and Regional Planning from the University of Florida, and his B.S. in
Engineering Technology from the University of Central Florida.
Past
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