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Jeffress, Rogers join ANGDA board
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has made two new appointments and one reappointment to the board of the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.
Newly named are William R. Jeffress and Brian D. Rogers; the governor reappointed Kathryn K. “Kate” Lamal.
Leaving the board are Bob Favretto, named to the board and reappointed (in 2003 and 2006) by Gov. Frank Murkowski, and Lorie Hovanec, named to the board by Palin in December 2006. Frank Bailey of the Office of Boards and Commissions told Petroleum News in an e-mail that of the three members whose terms expired in June, only Lamal requested reappointment.
Of the seven members on the board two, board President Scott Heyworth and Dan Sullivan, recently elected mayor of Anchorage, have been on the board since it was established in June 2003. Lamal and Don Benson, the board’s vice president, were named by Palin in 2007. Pat Ryan was named to the board this March.
ANGDA was created by a statewide voter initiative in 2002. Its statutory mission is to develop a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Prince William Sound or Cook Inlet.
Jeffress, Rogers, Lamal Jeffress, of Anchorage, is principal consultant and manager for the Alaska office of SRK Consulting Engineers and Scientists. He has nearly 20 years experience as environmental manager and engineer at Nevada and Alaska mines and directed the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Project Management and Permitting. Jeffress earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Rogers, of Fairbanks, is an educational administrator and former public official and economic policy analyst. He had been interim chancellor of the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 2008, and was recently named chancellor. Rogers has served as vice president of finance for the University of Alaska on the university’s Board of Regents. He earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Lamal, of Fairbanks, has been vice president for power supply of Golden Valley Electric Association since 2001, and was the cooperative’s environmental officer from 1993 to 2001. Lamal earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1980, and a master’s degree in geology from Western Washington University in Bellingham in 1983.
—Kristen Nelson
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