Board of Directors

Tom Boldt

CEO, The Boldt Company

Nina Leopold Bradley
Founder and Director, Aldo Leopold Foundation

Susan L. Flader
Professor of History, University of Missouri
Leopold Biographer

Forrest Hartmann
Boardman Law Firm, Baraboo, WI

Sylvia Hood-Washington
Visiting Faculty, DePaul University

A. Carl Leopold
Emeritus Scientist, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University
Founder and Director, Aldo Leopold Foundation

Estella B. Leopold
Ecologist and Palynologist, University of Washington
Founder and Director, Aldo Leopold Foundation

Madelyn D. Leopold
Partner, Boardman Law Firm, Madison, WI
Former Trustee, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Inc.

David W. Orr
Chair, Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
Author, Earth in Mind

Carol Skornicka
Senior Vice President-Corporate Affairs,
Secretary and General Counsel, Midwest Airlines, Inc.
Former Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations

Trish Stevenson
Metalsmith, Black Earth, WI

Jerry Smith
President & CEO, First Business Financial Services

Legal Counsel
Anne E. Ross
Foley & Lardner

Advisors

Richard C. Bartlett
Vice Chairman, Mary Kay Inc.
Chairman, National Envirnmental Education & Training Foundation

Don Brown
President, Albion Wealth Management

Kathe Conn

Executive Director, Aldo Leopold Nature Center

Peter Dunwidde
Director of Research Programs, The Nature Conservancy

Gene Likens
Former Director & President, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
2001 National Medal of Science Laureate

Stan Temple
Professor Emeritus, Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jerry Smith
President & CEO, First Business Financial Services

Director Biographies

Tom Boldt is chief executive officer of The Boldt Company. As a fourth generation leader, Boldt is very active in overseeing the diverse operations of The Boldt Company and its subsidiary companies: Boldt Consulting Services, Boldt Technical Services, and Oscar J. Boldt Construction. Oscar J. Boldt Construction is a family-owned firm which has been in operation since 1889. Boldt is headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, and has thirteen offices throughout the country. The company operates throughout the country with the heaviest concentration of activity in the Midwest, South, and East. Boldt earned his BA degree from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, and studied at the L’Universite de Paris III and Institute Catholique in France.

Dr. Nina Leopold Bradley, eldest daughter of Aldo Leopold, has undertaken ecological research throughout her life, established two family planning clinics (Columbia, Missouri and Bozeman, Montana), and currently lectures widely on Leopold and the land ethic. Nina and her husband Charles have directed research and ecological restoration at the Leopold Memorial Reserve since 1978. She received an honorary doctorate degree in environmental sciences from the University of Wisconsin in 1988 and has received many awards, including The Wilderness Society's Bob Marshall Award in 1995.

Susan L. Flader teaches courses in U.S. Western and environmental history, world environmental history, and the history of Missouri at the University of Missouri - Columbia. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1963), a M.A. from Stanford (1965), and a Ph.D. from Stanford (1971). In addition to numerous articles she has authored or edited six books, among them Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Towards Deer, Wolves, and Forests (1974; 1994), The Great Lakes Forest: An Environmental and Social History (1983); The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold with J.B. Callicott (1991); and Exploring Missouri's Legacy: State Parks and Historic Sites (1992). She is past president of the American Society for Environmental History and serves on many other professional and environmental boards and committees.

Forrest Hartmann specializes in Trusts and Estates, Business Law, Estate Planning at Boardman Law Firm's Baraboo office. Forrest is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of Wisconsin and Sauk County Bar Association. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School after having received a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance. Forrest is an old Wisconsin farm kid. Some say that he still has the smell of manure on his shoes. His father did not think that he had what it took to become a farmer — so he became a lawyer. Besides being a lawyer, he is a deeply committed environmentalist and was a co-founder of the International Crane Foundation.

Sylvia Hood-Washington is an environmental scholar, scientist, and engineer. Her diverse academic studies and interests bridge the sciences and humanities, with special interests in environmental justice, environmental health, and environmental ethics especially as related to environmental literacy and activism among African Americans, Latinos and ethnic immigrant populations. She has published two books, Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago (2005) and Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice (editor, 2006), and has several more forthcoming, including African American Struggles for a Sustainable Community in Cleveland, Ohio, 1917-1970 (2007). Sylvia sits on the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Environmental Justice board and directs the national project on Environmental Justice and Environmental Health co-sponsored by the Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. and the USCCB’s Catholic Coalition for Children and a Safe Environment (CASE). She has also produced a video documentary of land use change and environmental attitudes among African Americans in the Chicago area, including a curriculum study guide. She directs an NSF-funded study, “Engineering, Infrastructure, and Environmental Justice,” comparing African American environmental attitudes and land ethics in ex-urban communities in the Great Lakes Region. She holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Carl Leopold, youngest son of Aldo Leopold, is a plant physiologist who has published three books and over 200 research articles. Dr. Leopold holds the William H. Crocker Scientist Emeritus position at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York. Leopold was Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Nebraska, taught at Purdue University and served as policy analyst for the National Science Foundation. He serves as Founding President of the Finger Lakes Land Trust and as Chairman of Tropical Forestry Initiative, two non-profit organizations. Leopold presently undertakes ecological restoration in Costa Rica.

Dr. Estella Leopold, youngest daughter of Aldo Leopold, is Emeritus Professor of Botany and past director of the Quaternary Research Center at the University of Washington. Dr. Leopold was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and American Philosophical Society. Her research interests and publications focus on paleobotany, forest history, restoration ecology, and environmental quality. She studies fossil pollen and seeds to reconstruct ancient vegetation and climate in Alaska, China, and the western U.S. Her conservation activites focus on forest management issues.

Madelyn D. Leopold is a Partner at Boardman Law Firm in Madison, Wisconsin. Ms. Leopold focuses her practice in the area of estate planning, with additional interest in business and taxation, including business succession issues. She has served as a speaker for the State Bar of Wisconsin, Continuing Legal Education of Wisconsin and many private groups. She is a graduate of Boston College Law School, where she published a law review article on corporate tax. Madelyn entered the legal profession after a number of years in college textbook publishing, including three years as a traveling sales representative based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Madelyn also serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Arboretum, Inc.

David W. Orr is currently Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He holds a B.A. from Westminster College (1965), a M.A. from Michigan State University (1966), and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania (1973). He is the author of Earth in Mind (1994) and Ecological Literacy (1992) and more than 90 articles. He is also the coeditor of The Campus and Environmental Responsibility co-edited with David Eagan (Jossey-Bass, 1992), and The Global Predicament co-edited with Marvin Soroos (University of North Carolina Press, 1979). He is the Education Editor for Conservation Biology and a member of the editorial advisory board of Orion. He is a Trustee of the Educational Foundation of America, The Annenberg Rural Challenge, and the JED Fund. He is a member of the Education Visiting Committee of the New England Aquarium in Boston and a member of the Board of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley.

Jerry Smith is president, CEO, and director of First Business Financial Services and its subsidiaries. Founded in 1990 by Mr. Smith, First Business Financial Services has grown to $400 million in assets as of December, 2001. Mr. Smith has a career spanning nearly 40 years as a commercial banker and was recently recognized as the 2002 "Executive of the Year" by Sales and Marketing Executives of Madison. He has also served as a faculty member of the University of Wisconsin Graduate and Post Graduate Schools of Banking. Additional responsibilities include serving as a director for the Secura Insurance Companies and CTI Paper Company.

Carol N. Skornicka is currently Senior Vice President-Corporate Affairs, Secretary and General Counsel at Midwest Airlines, Inc. She joined Midwest Airlines in May of 1996 as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel. She is responsible for the airline’s legal and Board affairs functions; corporate security; corporate communications, media and public relations functions as well as government affairs. Ms. Skornicka serves on numerous boards, including Acuity (a mutual insurance company), Johnson Financial Group, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Columbia-St. Mary's-Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee Riverwalk District, and the Wisconsin Center District. She is past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Wisconsin (Madison) Memorial Union Building Association and the Wisconsin Glass Ceiling Commission. She has previously served on the Boards of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, Ten Chimneys Foundation and Wisconsin Historic Sites Foundation (Circus World Museum). Other current affiliations include: the Florentine Opera Company's Advisory Committee and Milwaukee Women, Inc. Prior to joining Midwest Airlines, Ms. Skornicka’s experience included 5 years of service in Governor Tommy G. Thompson's cabinet as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations, now the Department of Workforce Development. Ms. Skornicka was engaged in the private practice of law for 14 years, including 10 years with the firm of Michael, Best & Friedrich, where she was a partner. She received her undergraduate degree (1963), a master's degree (1965) and a J.D. (1977 cum laude) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ms. Skornicka has been honored as a University of Wisconsin Distinguished Alumna, received the Sacagawea Award for leadership and was recognized by the YWCA of Greater Milwaukee as a 2003 Outstanding Woman of Achievement.

Trish Stevenson knew when she was 12 years old that she wanted to be a metalsmith. As a child, her nearest neighbor was a classically trained English metalsmith, and from her, Stevenson learned the true value of craftsmanship. Today, her jewelry designs subtly and almost unconsciously evoke, but do not overstate, botanical and geologic forms. Stevenson considers herself a collector of techniques and has acquired mastery of many of them: raising, forging, stone setting, and construction. Her work is defined by the evocative nature of her designs and an abiding insistence on impeccable craftsmanship.