Category: Biographies

ACR President

Jill S. Ledbetter, Editor-in-Chief, Texas Register and Texas Administrative Code

In addition to ensuring the timely production of our weekly issue, President Ledbetter interacts with stakeholders which ranges from members of the general public looking for information to agency rule writers, executive directors, and general counsels.

She is also the clerk for the Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council, a multi-agency council tasked with studying records management across Texas state agencies and reporting those findings to the Governor and Legislature.

Chief Assistant Attorney General and Regulations Attorney, Alaska Department of Law

Deborah Behr is the Regulations Attorney for the State of Alaska. She has been in this position since 1991. She has primary approval authority for all state regulations under the Alaska Administrative Procedure Act. She prepares the Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations. She is available for consultations on complex regulations questions. She testifies before the legislature on regulatory matters. She is considered an expert in regulation research and history.

Chief Security Officer & Associate General Counsel, NIC

Ms. Friedland Holland is chief security officer and associate general counsel and oversees NIC’s security management program. She is a frequent speaker on security trends, best practices is eGovernment security, and how to build an effective security management program.

Director, Division of Administrative Rules, State of Utah

Kenneth A. Hansen is the Director of Utah’s Division of Administrative Rules.  He was appointed as Director in 1993.  Throughout his years in public service, he has focused his efforts on public access to government information with an emphasis on accessibility of regulatory information.  In 1994, Utah became one of the first states in the nation to post administrative rules online and make them available free of charge.  That same year, Utah also began accepting electronic filings from rulewriting agencies.  Automation efforts culminated in 2001 and 2009 that gave the division greater flexibility to repackage regulatory information for electronic distribution.  In 2007, the Division implemented a method for authenticating electronic materials posted on its web site.

Ken is an active member of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) Administrative Codes and Registers (ACR) Section.  In 2000, Ken completed a two-year term as ACR President.  From 2004 through spring 2009, Ken represented ACR as an official observer at the National Conference of Commissioners for Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) Model State Administrative Procedure Act (MSAPA) drafting committee meetings.  In 2011, Ken served as the ACR summer conference program committee chair for the West Virginia conference even though budget restrictions precluded his attendance.  He currently serves as a member of the ACR Executive Committee for the Mountain West region.

From 2000 through 2009, Ken taught Administrative Law as an Adjunct Instructor of Political Science at the University of Utah in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program.

Ken has Bachelor of Science degrees in History and Political Science, and a Master of Public Administration degree, all from the University of Utah.

Director of Operations & Marketing, Oregon NIC

In her role as Director of Operations & Marketing, Ms. Jorgensen works with Oregon government agencies to identify opportunities to leverage the state’s E-Government Program to implement new online services for Oregonians.  Managing the design and project management teams to see these projects through completion, her focus is on delivering cutting edge, usable web services that meet the needs of citizens and businesses while streamlining operations and creating cost savings for agencies.

Ms. Jorgensen brings 8 years of experience as a marketing, communications and development professional to her current role.  She has worked with government agencies including county, state and Federal agencies, technology and life sciences companies, non-profits and services firms.

State Records Administrator and Director of the State Records Center, New Mexico

John Hyrum Martinez was appointed by the Commission of Public Records to be State Records Administrator and the Director of the State Records Center and Archives in 2011.  He earned his Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, in History with a minor in Spanish from Brigham Young University and his Master of Arts in U.S. History, with a focus on the American Southwest from the University of Texas at Austin.  He became a Certified Archivist in 2010.  Mr. Martinez has been with the State Records Center and Archives for 13 years during which time he has served as an Archivist, the Director of the Administrative Law Division, and the State Records Administrator. He is the immediate past president of ACR.

Alaska Administrative Code Coordinator, Alaska Office of the Lieutenant Governor

Scott Meriwether is the Alaska Administrative Code Coordinator. He has been in this position since 2010. He coordinates the filing functions of regulations in the Alaska Office of the Lieutenant Governor. He works directly with the publisher in ensuring that the Alaska Administrative Code is printed timely and correctly. He handles the Alaska Online Public Notice System on which regulation notices are published. He interfaces with the Administrative Regulation Review Committee of the Alaska State Legislature to ensure that copies of new regulations are promptly distributed to the committee.

Consulting Engineer, Founder and Manager of Catapult Consulting, Anchorage Alaska

A former employee of Next Computer Inc. and twenty-year veteran of the software technologies that make up the iPhone, Aaron has been honored to have participated in a moment of history.

NeXT Computer, Inc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT) was founded in 1986 by Steve Jobs. The web was invented on a NeXT computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web). Aaron joined NeXT Computer in 1989 which he stayed through the acquisition by Apple Computer in 1996. Aaron contributed to the first generation of The Apple Store. In 1999, Aaron decided to leave Apple. He has since provided consulting engineering services in energy (BP), healthcare, finance, commerce, and to many startups. He also returned to Apple for about two years and provided server-side engineering to the iTunes team (for iPhoto and Aperture).

Aaron is a successful entrepreneur. Aaron began mobile/iOS development in 2008, prior to the launch of The App Store. He had apps on The App Store on the launch day. In 2009 Aaron was one of three founders that created Catapult Consulting, Alaska’s largest and most successful, exclusively mobile development company. Catapult has had many highly successful titles including achieving #1 on The App Store (Tap Defense). Catapult has grown at a rate of almost 100% year to year every year since its founding.

Over his career, Aaron has held both technical and non-technical positions in most facets of the software industry, including being CIO for a $3.5 billion dollar mortgage company for several years.

Aaron brings creativity and passion to everything he does.

Since this spring, Aaron is an employee of Intel where he is helping to define the future.

Executive Director, NASCIO

Doug Robinson serves as Executive Director for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). Representing state CIOs and information technology executives, NASCIO is the premier network and resource for state CIOs. Robinson is responsible for the overall executive leadership of the association including planning, policy execution, government affairs, strategic alliances and committee oversight. He is a frequent speaker, panelist and author representing NASCIO issues, state CIOs, IT policy and emerging trends. He represents NASCIO on several national boards, committees and advisory groups. His career spans over 30 years in state government, higher education and public sector IT consulting.

Officer Biographies are posted here.

 

Speaker Biographies

Bunk, Amy

Amy Bunk is the Director of Legal Affairs and Policy for the Office of the Federal Register. She is also the Co-chairperson of the Plain Language Action and Information Network, and organization of the U.S. government employees whose goal is to promote the use of plain language for all government communications.

Ms. Bunk worked in the Office of Regulations and Administrative Law, Office of the Judge Advocate General, United States Coast Guard from November 2005 until October 2007.

She received JD cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law and is a member of the Justinian Honorary Law Society.

Cheek, Annetta L.

Dr. Annetta L. Cheek became an advocate for plain language in the early 1990s and is a 25-year veteran of federal government. She has worked her career to get federal agencies to communicate more clearly.

In the mid-1990s, she was one of the founders of the federal plain language group, now called PLAIN. She worked as vice-president Al Gore’s National Partnership in Reinventing Government for four years, ending in 2000.

In 1998, she was one of the principal authors of President Clinton’s presidential memorandum on plain language. In 2003, she was one of several founders of the non-profit Center for Plain Language. The center was instrumental in educating Congress about the need for legislation requiring the federal government to write clearly, which culminated in the Plain Writing Act of 2010.

Dr. Cheek has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.

Fraizier, Jennifer

Kentucky State Law Librarian Jennifer Frazier was a member of a three-person Kentucky team that participated in a national conference about how public libraries can improve online access to legal information at libraries.  The team was one of 15 chosen to attend the conference out of 42 applying from 31 states.

As head of the State Law Library, Frazier oversees an operation that provides research and reference assistance to the Kentucky Court of Justice and houses the central collection of legal research materials for state government.

Frazier has served as the state law librarian since September 2006. She joined the law library as its legal counsel in March 2003 and served as the assistant state law librarian from April 2005 until being named law librarian.

She practiced law in Louisville for a year and a half before coming to the state law library. She earned her juris doctor from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 2001. She received her master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Kentucky in 2007. Frazier earned her bachelor’s degree in history from Northern Kentucky University.

Jaquith, Waldo

Waldo Jaquith is a website developer and open government technologist from Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2011, in acknowledgement of his transparency of work, he was named a “Champion of Change” by the White House, where he went on to work, launching Ethics.gov in March of 2012. Jaquith hold a degree in political science from Virginia Tech and was a 2005 graduate of the Sorensen Institute of Political Leadership. He lives on a small farm with his wife and infant son.

Martinez, John

John Hyrum Martinez was appointed by the New Mexico Commission on Public Records to be State Records Administrator and the Director of the State Records Center and Archives in 2011. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, in History with a minor in Spanish from Brigham Young University and his Master of Arts in History, with a focus on the American Southwest from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a certified archivist.

Martinez has been with the State Records Center and Archives for about 12 years during which he served as an archivist, Director of the Administrative Law Division, and State Records Administrator.

Palen, Elizabeth

Elizabeth A. Palen is the Executive Director of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the Administrative Law Advisory Committee and the Virginia Housing Commission; all housed within the Virginia Division of Legislative Services.

The Joint Commission on Administrative Rules provides a bi-partisan arena for regulatory dispute resolution. The Administrative Law Advisory Committee studies and offers recommendations to the Virginia Code Commission concerning regulatory process. The Virginia Housing Commission studies housing issues and is a forum to create legislation and solutions for housing issues ranging from mortgages to blight and neighborhood revitalization.

Palen provides legal council, staff meetings and drafts bills dealing with regulatory and housing issues.

Prior to her employment with the Divisions of Legislative Services, Elizabeth was the Executive Director of a Community Development Corporation, a lobbyist, legal researcher for the Virginia Senate, and a staff member for the Clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Palen was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mary Baldwin College in Political Science and Art and a juris doctor from the T.C. Williams School of Law University of Richmond.

Stevenson, Dennis

Dennis Stevenson is the Administrative Rules Coordinator for the State of Idaho. The Office of the Administrative Rules Coordinator is an Executive Branch office and is part of the Department of Administration. Stevenson has worked for the State of Idaho for 22 years. He has been with the Office of the Administrative Rules Coordinator since its inception in 1992.

During his tenure Stevenson has overseen many office innovations including implementing desktop publishing techniques for rules publications, providing free electronic access to the Idaho Administrative Code, the Administrative Bulletin and rules-related documents, electronic filing of rulemaking documents, and providing electronic access to all legislative rules review publications. Many of these innovations have saved the State of Idaho thousands of dollars.

Stevenson is a department administrator, the managing editor of both the Idaho Administrative Code and the Idaho Administrative Bulletin, the legislative and agency liaison for the office, and a training specialist in administrative law, rule promulgation, rule writing and Idaho APA compliance.

Stevenson joined ACR in 1995 and is now an emeritus member. He has served as the Mountain West Regional Representative, 2001 Summer Conference Program Chair, and as an ACR officer.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with minors in English and Spanish from Boise State University. Stevenson is also a Certified Public Manager and a member of the Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers and is a member in good standing in the American Academy of Certified Public Managers.

Yamaka, Julie

Julie Yamaka has managed the Publications Unit of the Archives Division of the Oregon Secretary of State since 1997. The Publications Unit is charged with filing and publishing the Oregon Administrative Rules, and compiling and publishing the Oregon Blue Book. Yamaka has been managing editor of the Oregon Blue Book since 2002. She has worked for the Oregon Secretary of State since 1990.

Yamaka served as President of ACR from 2008 to 2010, and has been a member of ACR since 1998. She served as the ACR Pacific West regional representative from 2000 to 2004 and again from 2010 to the present, and was the 2002 Summer Conference Chair in Providence, Rhode Island. She was ACR Secretary/Treasurer from 2004 to 2006 and Vice President from 2006 to 2008.

Yamaka holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in German Language from the University of Oregon. She and her husband live in Salem and have two grown children, Stephanie and Kevin.

WINTER MEETING BIOGRAPHIES

Amy Bunk, Federal Register

Amy Bunk is the Director of Legal Affairs and Policy for the Office of the Federal Register. While at the Federal Register, she has traveled to Vietnam to participate in workshops on transparency in government with representatives of the Vietnamese government, business owners, and staff of the STAR Vietnam project. Her presentations focused on the legal authorities of the Federal Register, public participation in the US rulemaking process, and the importance of publication of legal documents before they become effective. Before taking this position at the Federal Register, Amy worked in the Office of Regulations and Administrative Law, Office of the Judge Advocate General, United States Coast Guard. While at the Coast Guard, she has worked closely on a number of high visibility merchant mariner rulemaking projects. She also coordinated a multi-unit response to a FOIA request related to the Station Niagara Investigation. She received her JD cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law and is a member of the Justinian Honorary Law Society. Amy is admitted to practice in New York.

Jeffrey W. Hague, Delaware

Mr. Hague is the Registrar of Regulations for the State of Delaware. The Registrar’s Office is in the Legislative Branch and is responsible for the Deleware Register of Regulations (monthly) and the Administrative Code of Regulations. Mr. Hague’s responsibilities have also included design, construction and maintenance of the Deleware General Assembly’s website. He has worked in various capacities for a three state branches of government. He has served ACR as president, Mid-Atlantic Regional Representative and the 1999 Summer Program Chair.

Jason A. Schwartz, Institute for Policy Integrity

Jason A Schwartz graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law. After law school, he worked as an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. As a member of Pillsbury’s public policy and life science practice groups, Schwartz provided strategic counsel to municipalities and foreign governments in their pursuit of appropriations, favorable international trade policies, and homeland security assistance from the federal government. He also advised public and private clients on current legislative initiatives, concentrating on energy and environmental policies, and on disaster, terrorism, and biosafety-preparedness. During his time in law school, Schwartz served as a legal intern to the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was an articles editor for the NYU Environmental Law Journal and has published several pieces of legal scholarship on climate change, biodiversity, and the regulation of bioscience research and development. At Policy Integrity, Schwartz serves as a legal fellow where his research interests extend to energy, climate change, and state-based policies.

SUMMER CONFERENCE BIOGRAPHIES

Cody York, Tennessee

Cody Ryan York studied political science and psychology at Maryville College in East Tennessee, before receiving a master’s degree of political management from George Washington University’s Graduate school of Political Management.

For almost a decade, he operated York Consulting providing public relations consulting services throughout Tennessee at every level of government and the private sector. In 2009, York came to work for Tre Hargett as Assistant Director of Publications, and now additionally serves as Public Policy Advisor to Secretary Hargett. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee with his wife and two children.

ADMINISTRATIVE CODES AND REGISTERS SECTION

Administrative Codes and Registers Section

2010 Conference
Providence, Rhode Island
July 17 – 20, 2010

ACR SPEAKERS

 

Amy Bunk

Ms. Bunk is the Director of Legal Affairs and Policy for the Office of the Federal Register.  While at the Federal Register, she has traveled to Vietnam to participate in workshops on transparency in government with representatives of the Vietnamese government, business owners, and staff of the STAR Vietnam project.   Her presentations focused on the legal authorities of the Federal Register, public participation in the US rulemaking process, and the importance of publication of legal documents before they become effective.  Before taking this position at the Federal Register, Amy worked in the Office of Regulations and Administrative Law, Office of the Judge Advocate General, United States Coast Guard.   While at the Coast Guard, she has worked closely on a number of high visibility merchant mariner rulemaking projects. She also coordinated a multi-unit response to a FOIA request related to the Station Niagara Investigation.   She received her JD cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law and is a member of the Justinian Honorary Law Society. Amy is admitted to practice in New York.

Emily Caudill

Emily Caudill has been an ACR member and Midwest Regional Representative since Summer 2008. She was on the Colburn Award Committee in 2009 and is the 2010 Summer Conference Chair in Providence, RI.

Emily became Kentucky’s Administrative Regulations Compiler in 2004 and began working with administrative regulations for the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission in 2002. The duties of the Regulations Compiler cover a wide variety of tasks. Changes to administrative regulations are typed, proofed, tracked, and updated by hand. Among other tasks, Emily works to educate and assist agency representatives and outside constituents about Kentucky’s regulatory process. She maintains files and compiles indexes of effective and ineffective administrative regulations and any corresponding materials incorporated by reference. She also prepares a yearly compilation of all of Kentucky administrative regulations, aka the Kentucky Administrative Regulations Service, and its accompanying monthly supplemental Register.

Sharon Kube

Sharon Kube has been with Wolters Kluwer Law & Business since 1997.  She has held various positions in sales, marketing and product management and represented three WKLB product areas including CCH, Aspen Publishers and Loislaw, where she is currently the Product Manager.  Prior to Wolters Kluwer, Sharon held sales and marketing positions with United Airlines and GTE.  She has a Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Business.

LOISLAW, a Wolter Kluwer Law & Business brand, is a legal research service that provides comprehensive and easy-to-use resources with a single, powerful, online gateway to primary law, public records, treatises and legal forms.  Loislaw gives subscribers access to critical legal information with one low, all-inclusive rate and efficiently and effectively impacts a lawyer’s ability to control research costs, enhance productivity, and increase their return on investment.  There are never any hidden charges for hyperlinking, downloading or printing and Loislaw includes free training and technical support to all subscribers.  Loislaw will help attorneys gain a competitive edge in the legal marketplace.  Visit loislaw.com for more information.

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business is a leading provider of research products and software solutions in key specialty areas for legal and business professionals. Its major product lines include Aspen Publishers, CCH, Kluwer Law International and Loislaw. Its markets include law firms, law schools, corporate counsel and professionals requiring legal and compliance information. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, a unit of Wolters Kluwer, is based in New York City and Riverwoods, Ill.

Ray Mosley

Ray Mosley has served as Director of the Federal Register since 1996. This year, he is completing his 40th year with the National Archives, including 20 years as a member of the Senior Executive Service.

Professor Gregory L. Ogden

Gregory L. Ogden is a professor of law at Pepperdine University where he has taught since 1978. He teaches administrative law, civil procedure, professional responsibility, and remedies. He is a graduate of UCLA, (BA, cum laude) UC Davis school of Law (JD, Law Review Editor), and he has two LLM=s, one from Temple University in legal education, and one from Columbia University in administrative law. He has been an administrative law consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, and to the California Law Revision Commission. He has taught administrative law for over 30 years, and was the principal author of California Public Agency Practice, (three volumes, Matthew, Bender & Co.,Inc..1989), and California Public Administrative Law (two volumes, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. 1997), the leading treatise on California administrative law. He prepares treatise updates five times per year and the treatise is available both in print version, and online on Lexis-Nexis. In Fall 2005, He completed a major revision of a State Administrative Law in California chapter (200 pages) for a multi volume treatise on California Environmental Law and Land Use Planning (Manaster & Selmi, Matthew Bender & Co.).  He has authored several articles in the administrative law field, including most recently the following article in the Journal of the NAALJ: Ogden, Gregory L., AThe Role of Demeanor Evidence in Determining Credibility of Witnesses in Fact Finding: The Views of ALJ=s, @ 20 Journal of NAALJ 1 (2000). Professor Ogden was the 1999 NAALJ Fellowship recipient, and he presented his fellowship paper on demeanor evidence at the 1999 NAALJ Conference in Asheville, North Carolina.

Professor Ogden has been the faculty editor of the Journal of the NAALJ since the  2000-2001 academic year, when the Journal editorial responsibilities was taken over by Pepperdine University School of Law. He was on the planning committee for the Evidence for ALJ=s program hosted at Pepperdine Law School in May, 2001.  Since 2000, Professor Ogden has spoken at numerous continuing judicial education conferences on current developments in administrative law, evidence basics for administrative law judges, demeanor evidence and credibility determinations, and judicial ethics for ALJ=s. His topics have been presented at programs sponsored by the California Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH), the National Association of Hearing Officials (NAHO), the Association for Administrative Law Judges (AALJ), the National Association of Administrative Law Judges (NAALJ), and the Arkansas, Iowa, and South Carolina NAALJ affiliate organizations. He has also presented programs on legal ethics for government attorneys for the SEC and for the state administrative law section of the Arkansas State Bar Association. Ogden has been retained as a consultant to several law firms needing administrative law expertise. In 2006, Ogden was appointed Reporter for the Drafting Committee of the Model State Administrative Procedure Act revision project sponsored by the National Conference of Commissioners for Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). Ogden has served in that capacity through summer 2010, when the Act will (hopefully) be enacted by the Uniform Law Commission. As Reporter, Professor Ogden has made a number of presentations related to the Model Act to law related groups, including the American Bar Association section on administrative law.

Cathilea Robinett

Cathilea Robinett is Executive Director of the Center for Digital Government and Center for Digital Education, national research and advisory institutes focused on information technology policy and best practices in state and local government and education. She is also Executive Vice President of e.Republic, the Center’s parent company, where she regularly consults on editorial direction of its magazines (Government Technology, Public CIO, Emergency Management and Texas Technology) and the major themes of its annual conferences held across the country.

Robinett is a frequent speaker for worldwide government and education organizations, including Harvard University, the United Nations, the State Legislative Leaders’ Foundation, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, the World Congress on Information Technology and many more. She is quoted frequently in the press with articles appearing in USA Today, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Forbes magazine and many more. She is also the 2007 recipient of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) National Technology Champion Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to advance public sector information technology initiatives.

For more than fifteen years, she has served as a thought leader and adviser to public and private sector professionals, and has worked extensively with both sectors in helping them develop sound and successful strategies in the state, local and education markets.

Kate Telford

Kate Telford, Administrative Records & Technical Services Specialist for the Rhode Island State Archives, has worked in Administrative Records at the Rhode Island State Archives of the Rhode Island Secretary of State since 2009. The Administrative Records section of the Archives is charged with accepting regulatory filings from various state departments.  Prior to graduating with her MLIS, Kate worked as a Quality Management Specialist at a private non-profit social work agency.

Kate earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s Studies with a concentration in English Literature from Smith College.  She graduated with her MLIS with a specialization in Archives from the University of Rhode Island.

 

Speaker Biographies

Scott Cancelosi

ACR Secretary/Treasurer

Director of the Public Services Division

Scott Cancelosi (pronounced Cancel-oh-see) is your ACR Secretary/Treasurer. This position also functions as ACR historian. Information and photos from any conference can be sent to Scott at scancelosi@cox.net.

A member of ACR since 1997, he has chaired the ACR Robert J. Colborn Award Committee; is a member of the ACR Web site committee and is a founding member of ACR’s esteemed Rulettes. He also maintains the underground Web site ACR AfterDark. He has been with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office since 1996 and is Director of the Public Services Division under Secretary Ken Bennett. The division is charged with the publication of Arizona administrative rules, office publications and special projects.

He is a member of the Governor’s Emergency Council and Arizona Historical Advisory Commission(AHAC). AHAC has been entrusted to help plan Arizona’s Centennial in 2012 with its main function to fund legacy projects throughout the state.

Scott has a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and public relations from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz. He sings and plays the guitar and has appeared this year with “The Ken Bennett Trio” and supports the off-road race team, Wide Open MotorSports. The team won the Mohave Desert Racing Sportsman Unlimited class championship in 2008.

Scott lives in Phoenix with his wife Anne (recently celebrating their 10 year anniversary), daughter Maria, and Labrador retriever, Shadow.

Kevin Fetherston

Director, EHS Reference Services

BNA, 1801 S. Bell St. Arlington, VA 22202

Kevin Fetherston is the Director of Reference Services for BNA’s Environment, Health, and Safety Division and managing editor of Environment and Safety Library–BNA’s largest reference product on the Web–and a number of proprietary analytical and compliance services published by BNA. These services include Air Pollution Control Guide, Environment & Safety Compliance Calendar, Environment Library on DVD, Environmental Compliance Bulletin, Environmental Due Diligence Guide, Right-To-Know Planning Guide, Safety Guide, Spill Reporting Procedures Guide, Waste Management Guide, and Water Pollution Control Guide.

Kevin joined BNA in 1987 as the Senior Environmental Analyst in BNA PLUS, the custom research and document retrieval division of BNA, and was promoted to manager of the Custom Research and Monitoring unit in 1993. During his tenure with BNAPLUS, he created three BNA services: Environment & Safety Compliance Calendar, Federal Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report, and State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report. Kevin moved to BNA’s Environment and Safety Division in 1996, where he assumed management responsibility for state information appearing in all environment and safety products. He became managing editor of ESLW and eight other compliance publications in 1999. In 2009, he was named director of all BNA EHS reference services, which include the full text of federal and state laws and regulations as well as compliance information and analysis services.

Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree with high honors in economics from the University of California at San Diego. He also has a Master’s degree in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. A native of California, Kevin currently resides in Arlington, Va.

Ed Frease

Human Factors International, Inc. (HFI) Director of Business Development, Government & Non-profit organizations Experience Sales & Management

• 11 years selling training & consulting in software usability / user-centered design to Government and

Non-profit organizations

• 18 years Customer Relationship Management

• 4 years selling software manufacturing services to fortune 1000 Insurance companies

• 3 years interfacing with engineering managers at Rockwell Collins Avionics providing contract software engineering support

• 5 years teaching Golden Shield Qi Gong Exercises for Health

• 3 years providing alternative medicine (Maharishi Ayur Ved) to the major cities of the U.S.

• 3 years as an instructor in Television & Radio production @ University of Texas

• 3 years teaching Transcendental Meditation

• 2 years as a Design Engineer @ Navel Electronics Laboratory Center, San Diego

• 3 years as an Ensign, Lieutenant Junior Grade, and Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy

Education

MBA, Maharishi University of Management, 1985

BSEE, University of Washington, 1969

Hobbies and Special Interests

Transcendental Meditation, Public Speaking — “Distinguished Toastmaster— DTM”,

Golden Shield Qi Gong for improved health, snow skiing, taking day hikes in scenic areas, and raising a 13 year old son with my Irish wife.

Jeff Horvath, Ph.D., CUA

Vice President

Human Factors International

Experience

• Over 10 years experience in field of user experience and user-centered design

• Technical expertise includes strategic planning, user-centered design, user-interface standards, usability testing, heuristic evaluations, field research, user analysis, task analysis, information architecture, interaction design, and web analytics

• Industry experience includes government, education, retail, finance, telecommunications, service, manufacturing, and biotech fields

• Responsible for working with clients to define strategic roadmap for successful UX initiatives and then overseeing delivery of solutions

• Previous clients include FAA, Caterpillar, Carlson-Wagonlit Travel, Sprint/Nextel, American Family Insurance, Motorola, Mapquest, and Lands’ End

Education/Certification

• Ph.D., Educational Psychology, and M.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin; B.S., Computer Science, State University of New York

• Certified Usability Analyst Selected Publication/Presentation Topics

• PET: Persuasion, Emotion & Trust

• Agile UX

• Healthcare & The Internet

• Usability ROI

• Hypermeasure: A Case-based multimedia teacher training tool

• Usability Rules the Web

• UX 2.0:User Experience in the Web 2.0World

• What’s New in Usability

• Emerging Online Marketing Tools & Tactics

• User Testing &Web Conferencing

• 3D User Interfaces, M.S.,

John Martinez

ACR Vice President

Director of the Administrative Law Division of the New Mexico Commission of Public Records

John Martinez is the Director of the Administrative Law Division of the New Mexico Commission of Public Records – State Records Center and Archives. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, in History with a minor in Spanish from Brigham Young University. After graduation he attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a Master of Arts in U.S. History, with a focus on the American Southwest.

After leaving Texas, he found employment with a large financial institution in California where he worked in human resources and corporate security. Almost nine years ago he accepted a position at the New Mexico State Archives. While at the state archives, he was introduced to state rules through the archives’ collection of noncurrent rules. Shortly thereafter, he was hired to direct the Administrative Law Division. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Administrative Codes and Registers section.

Elizabeth A. Palen

Elizabeth A. Palen is the Executive Director of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the Administrative Law Advisory Committee and the Virginia Housing Commission for the Virginia Division of Legislative Services. The Joint Commission on Administrative Rules provides a bi-partisan arena for regulatory dispute resolution. The Administrate Law Advisory Committee studies and offers recommendations to the Virginia Code Commission concerning regulatory process. The Virginia Housing Commission studies housing issues and is a forum to vet proposed legislation.

Elizabeth provides legal counsel, staffs meetings and drafts bills dealing with regulatory and housing issues.

Prior to her employment with the Division of Legislative Services, Elizabeth was the Executive Director of a Community Development Corporation, a lobbyist, legal researcher for the Virginia Senate, and a staff member for the Clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Elizabeth was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mary Baldwin College in Political Science and Art and a juris doctor from the T.C.Williams School of Law, University of Richmond.

Dan Procter

Texas Register Director

Unconvinced that the 20th Century is over, Dan Procter bought a cell phone only after pay telephones became scarce. The TV antenna in his attic does not supplement cable. At a yard sale last year he handed over his Smith-Corona typewriter (to a woman who said she’d pry off the keys to use in a collage). Dan owns two record players. One of them is wind-up. Change does not scare him. Rather it shoves him along a path several steps behind the early adapters. So, as director of the Texas Register and Texas Administrative Code for more than 20 years, he has tried to find his way between the cutting edge and the mildew.

He graduated from a university in central Oklahoma that has since changed its name. His old high school was torn down and rebuilt in another location.

And change brings surprises. Dan and his girlfriend Stephanie were married this year after a brief engagement of 16 years. They spend their free time in the summer watching old movies at an Austin vaudeville theatre-turned-picture show (once it became apparent that talkies were not just a fad.)

Michele Timmons

Michele L. Timmons has served as the Revisor of Statutes for the State of Minnesota since 1998. During that same time period, she has also been a Commissioner on the Uniform Law Commission. Currently, Ms. Timmons serves as the Chair of a Study Committee on Authentication of Online State Legal Materials for the Uniform Law Commission. Ms. Timmons did her undergraduate work at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and obtained her juris doctor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Immediately following law school, she clerked for the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Prior to becoming Revisor, Ms. Timmons had an eighteen-year career in county government, serving as Assistant Ramsey County Attorney, Director of the Civil Division of the County Attorney’s office, and as Director of Risk Management. Throughout her career, Ms. Timmons has managed large projects, ranging from environmental resource recovery to departmental mergers to the recent development of an XML-based computer system for bill-drafting at the Revisor’s office.

Melanie Kielb West

Since 2006, Melanie has directed the Economic and Regulatory Analysis Division (ERAD) of Virginia’s Department of Planning & Budget (DPB). ERAD’s principal job is to provide policy/legal and economic advice to the Governor on regulatory proposals spanning a broad range of subjects such as education, health, public safety, and professional and occupational licensing. Melanie also leads the Division’s efforts to manage Virginia’s rulemakings through the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall website. The Town Hall (townhall.virginia.gov) has over 7,000 registered public users and provides the public with unique and unprecedented access to Virginia’s rulemaking process.

Melanie is an associate member of the Virginia State Bar. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law and graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Melanie has two sons, Christian (6) and Colin (4).

Melanie was born in Granite Falls, Minnesota, and was raised partly in Fergus Falls and Park Rapids. Much of her family still lives in Minnesota.

Julie Yamaka

ACR President

Publications Manager, Oregon Secretary of State, Archives Division

Julie has managed the Publications Unit of the Archives Division of the Oregon Secretary of State since 1997. The Publications Unit is charged with filing and publishing the Oregon Administrative Rules, and compiling and publishing the Oregon Blue Book. She has been the managing editor of the Blue Book since 2001. Julie began her career with the Oregon Secretary of State in 1990.

She is currently serving as President of the Administrative Codes and Registers (ACR) section of the National Association of Secretaries of State, and has been a member of ACR since 1998. She served as the ACR Pacific West regional representative from 2000 to 2004, and was the 2002 Summer Conference Chair in Providence, Rhode Island. She was ACR Secretary/Treasurer from 2004 to 2006, and Vice President from 2006 to 2008.

Julie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in German Language from the University of Oregon. She and her husband Dave live in Salem and have two grown children, Stephanie and Kevin.