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Chair, UTA Board of Trustees
Gregory Hughes_____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Salt Lake County and the municipalities of Grantsville and Tooele in Tooele County
Term Ending:	March 2012
Professional:	Construction/Property Management
Civic:	Utah House of Representatives; Department of Professional Licensing Review Panel

 

Vice Chair, UTA Board of Trustees
Michelle Facer Baguley______________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Salt Lake County and the municipalities of Grantsville and Tooele in Tooele County
Term Ending:	October 2012
Professional:	Environmental Grant Administrator currently at the Midvale Slag and Sharon Steel Superfund Sites.
Civic:	Herriman Community Council Member/Parks and Recreation Chair, Revitalize Town Days Committee Chair, Herriman Town Incorporator, Herriman City Council Member, Technical Review Committee Member, KUCC Natural Resource Damages. Former Jordan School District Housing Committee Member, Founder of "Herriman Helping Hands" A Service Club for Elementary Students. Served in multiple church leadership and teaching positions. Wife, mother and grandmother.

 

Chair, Planning and Development Committee
Terry C. Diehl________ ______________________________________________________

Appointed by:	House of Representatives
Term Ending:	September 2012
Professional:	Chairman/CEO of Wasatch Pacific, Inc.; real estate development
Civic:	Past trustee, Cottonwood Alta View Health Care Foundation; representative, State of Utah U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Directors; avid supporter of University of Utah, Primary Children’s Hospital, Guadalupe School, Little League Football and Special Olympics.

 

Justin Allen__________________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Senate
Term Ending:	July 2012
Professional:	Government Affairs Director for the Salt Lake Board of REALTORS®; Contract Lobbyist and Political Campaign Consultant; Former Assistant State Director for Congressman Rob Bishop; Former Political Director for Utah Republican Party; Former Campaign Staffer for Congressman Rob Bishop and Senator Orrin Hatch; Former intern at Utah State Legislature.
Civic:	Member of Centerville City Council since 2005; Serves on Utah Quality Growth Commission; Member of Regional Growth Committee of the Wasatch Front Regional Council.; Centerville West Side Steering Committee; Davis COG Transportation Subcommittee; Utah Republican Party State Central Committee; previously active in the Davis County Republican Party.
Education:	BA from BYU in Japanese with minor in Political Science

 

Keith Bartholomew____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Salt Lake City
Term Ending:	May 2011
Professional:	Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning; Environmental lawyer for 1000 Friends of Oregon; director of “Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection (LUTRAQ), a nationally recognized research program; former associate director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the U of U’s SJ. Quinney College of Law.
Education:	J.D. University of Oregon

 

Christopher R. Bleak__________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Governor
Term Ending:	July 2012
Professional:	Chief of Staff to Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives
Civic:	Lehi City Planning Commission, Utah Hemophilia Foundation
Education:	BS in Political Science from the University of Utah

 

Necia Christensen____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Salt Lake County and the municipalities of Grantsville and Tooele in Tooele County
Term Ending:	February 2011
Professional:	Owns and operates Christensen Tax Service
Civic:	Chair, West Valley City Board of Adjustments; Neighborhood chair, Utah’s Promise; recipient of “District Award of Merit” from the Boy Scouts of America and West Valley City’s “Best of the Best” award for work as a founding member of CHAD; PTA Council President.

 

Larry Ellertson__ ____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Utah County
Term Ending:	July 2011
Professional:	Vice President of United Way of Utah County; project management and consulting services
Civic:	Elected Mayor of Lindon City in November 1996; January 2005, elected to the Utah County Commission; president and board member of Utah League of Cities and Towns; chairman of the Provo/Orem Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the Mountainlands Association of Governments; Rotary Club President; chairman of the Utah Citizens Corps Council; chairman of the Edison Electric Institute Customer Service Committee; member of the Utah County Board of Health; board member of the Utah Commission on Volunteers; and board member of the Division of Workforce Services Executive Committee.

 

Charles G. Henderson_________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Unincorporated Salt Lake County
Term Ending:	July 2012
Professional:	Currently working at JetBlue.
Civic:	Vice-Chair of the Kearns Community Council; Chair of the KCC Financial Oversight and the Economic Development Committee; Kearns Township Planning Commission Steering Committee; Vice Chair of Salt Lake County Community Economic Development Advisory Committee; Utah Coalition of Organ, Eye and Tissue Donor Community Advisory Board; past member of Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Commission; Salt Lake County Council on Diversity Affairs; Coalition of Minority Advisory Committee; Utah Black Leadership Forum; Utah Minority Groups Consortium; and Former Chair of the Utah Black Democratic Caucus.
Education:	Westminster College of Salt Lake City and University of Utah majoring in Finance and Economics with emphasis in International Marketing and Management.

 

Meghan Holbrook____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Utah Transportation Commission
Term Ending:	August 2013
Professional:	Zions Bank, Office of the President, Government Relations
Civic:	Utah State Board of Regents Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and member of the Executive Committee, Utah State Board of Education, Transportation Commission.

 

Robert A. Hunter ____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Weber County and Brigham City, Perry and Willard in Box Elder County
Term Ending:	April 2011
Professional:	President and CEO, United Way of Northern Utah; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Communications and Political Science, Weber State University; Originating Member and Weber County Chair of People for Sensible Transportation; Originating Member of the Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee and Salt Lake Organizing Committee; Former Ogden City Manager, Weber County Commissioner and Chairman of the Wasatch Front Regional Council of Governments.
Education:	Master of Arts, Brigham Young University; Bachelor of Science, Weber State University

 

Michele Johnson_ ____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Salt Lake County and the municipalities of Grantsville and Tooele in Tooele County
Term Ending:	Pending Approval
Professional:	Associate Director, Biosafety Specialist, Environmental Health and Safety at the University of Utah. Adjunct Instructor of Biohazards Comp Review at University of Utah, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational & Environmental Health.
Education:	Master of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 

P. Bret Millburn_ ____________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Davis County
Term Ending:	July 2012
Professional:	Current Davis County Commissioner; Director of Planning and Development with United Way of Northern Utah; Community Outreach, Planning and Budget, Federal Government Relations, and General Manager of Athlete Transportation for the Salt Lake Bid and Organizing Committees for the Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002; Assistant to the Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives.
Education:	BS in Psychology with a minor in Political Science from Weber State University and Associates of Arts and Sciences from Ricks College.

 

Michael E. Romero_ _________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Salt Lake County and Tooele and Grantsville in Tooele County
Term Ending:	February 2011
Professional:	Claims Adjuster with Allstate Claims Office; Co-Owner of Creative Graphics.
Civic:	Phi Sigma Alpha; Pi Apha Alpha; Murray City Economic Development Advisory Board; IHC Urban Central Region Human Resources Committee; Utah Democratic Party Hispanic Caucus; Murray Chamber of Commerce; Murray Exchange Club
Education:	Bachelors of Science in Political Science, University of Utah; Masters of Public Administration, University of Utah.

 

Ben Southworth___ _ _________________________________________________________

Appointed by:	Municipalities within Salt Lake County and Tooele and Grantsville in Tooele County
Term Ending:	September 2013
Professional:	Entrepreneur on a project developing a real estate research firm; Manager/analyst for Wal-Mart Transportation & Logistics; Property Management.
Civic:	West Jordan City Council, Salt Lake County Association of Municipal Councils, Board Member for Sugar Factory Arts Campus, Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Council, Western Growth Coalition, West Jordan Parks & Open Land Committee and West Jordan TEC (Taxing Entity Committee).
Education:	Bachelors in Economics, minor in Business; University of Utah.