Board and Staff
Board Members of RLF and RLFF:
Because Resources Legacy Fund (RLF) and its supporting
organization, Resources Legacy Fund Foundation (RLFF) share the
same mission, staff, and operational strategy, they also share
distinguished members on their boards, with RLFF having one
additional member. RLF and RLFF are honored to have the
commitment, excellence, and expertise of these board members.
Don McGrath, Vice Chair
Mr. McGrath is managing partner of Diamond Bear Partners LLC,
a California Investment Company. He retired in January 2010 as
Chairman and CEO of both Bank of the West and the bank’s holding
company, BancWest Corporation. Mr. McGrath joined Bank of the West in 1975, and
became President in 1991 and CEO in 1996. During his tenure at Bank of the West,
he also held the positions of Vice President and Treasurer, Chief Financial
Officer, Director, and Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. McGrath also serves on the boards of directors of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
the Deluxe Corporation, The Nature Conservancy of Idaho, Operation HOPE, Inc.,
Commonwealth Club of California, and Dominican University of San Rafael.
During the last decade, he has served on the boards of the Pacific Stock Exchange and
the Financial Services Roundtable.
John Schmidt is the former Executive Director of Resources
Legacy Fund and Resources Legacy Fund Foundation. Beginning in
2001, Mr. Schmidt served as the organization's Executive
Director and as Program Director for RLF's San Francisco Bay
Wetlands Restoration project.
Prior to joining RLF, Mr. Schmidt was the Executive Director
of the California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB),
California's leading conservation real estate and restoration
agency, for 18 years. He is past president of the Organization
of Wildlife Land and Realty Specialists, and has worked on
several committees of the International Association of Fish and
Wildlife Agencies. Mr. Schmidt also worked in land-related
activities with the California Division of Highways and the
Alaska Department of Highways.
Mr. Schmidt holds a California Community College Teaching
Credential, is a certified real estate appraiser and a former
member of the City of Lodi Planning Commission.
Jeanne Sedgwick is the former director of the Conservation
Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos,
California. She oversaw the program's growth from an annual
grants budget of $500,000 in 1989 to $100 million in 2000. Under
her direction in 1998, the Conservation Program launched the
5-year, $175 million Conserving California Landscapes
Initiative, which helped protect nearly 500,000 acres of
California's critical habitats.
She has served in a variety of board positions, most recently
including chairman of the board of the Consultative Group on
Biological Diversity, the national affinity group of private
foundations working on biodiversity conservation, and vice
chairman of the board of trustees at Phillips Brooks School, an
independent school in Menlo Park, California. She is a member of
the strategic planning committee at Jasper Ridge Biological
Preserve at Stanford University.
Gordon Smith is the former President and CEO of the Pacific
Gas and Electric Company, one of the nation's largest
investor-owned energy utilities. Mr. Smith was also Senior Vice
President of the utility's parent company, PG&E Corporation. He
joined Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1970 as a financial
analyst and held a number of executive financial positions in
the company, serving as Treasurer, Vice President of Finance,
and Senior Vice President. He was the utility's Chief Financial
Officer from 1991 to 1997.
Mr. Smith is the former Director of the California Chamber of
Commerce and the Bay Area Council. He serves as trustee for The
Monterey Bay Aquarium, and has served as a Trustee of the
University of San Francisco and The California Foundation on the
Environment and Economy.
Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Chair
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Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr. is the Robert E. Paradise
Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty
Director, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford
University. A
widely published author and recognized expert in water resource
issues, Mr. Thompson is Contributing Editor to Water Strategist
and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Natural Heritage
Institute.
Mr. Thompson has worked as a partner at the law firm of
O'Melveny & Meyers, instructor at University of California at
Los Angeles, and law clerk to United States Supreme Court
Justice William H. Rehnquist. Today, he is a member of the
California and American Bar Associations and serves as a Trustee
of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute.
Barry Williams is the founder and President of Williams
Pacific Ventures, Inc., a real estate and private equity
investment and consulting firm. Previously, Mr. Williams served
as general partner of WDG Ventures, Inc. and was President and
majority stockholder of C. N. Flagg Power, Inc. He was a
consultant with McKinsey and Company and The Bechtel Group in
their investment programs.
Mr. Williams also serves on the boards of PG&E Corporation,
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and several
other publicly traded companies. In civic affairs, he is
Chairman of the Board of the African American Experience Fund
and a director for the American Management Association.
Mr. Williams has been President of the Harvard Alumni
Association and interim CEO of the American Management
Association. He recently concluded a six-year term on the board
of the National Park Foundation.
Board Member of RLFF:
Jim Eaton, serving solely on the board of Resources Legacy
Fund Foundation, is a founder and former Executive Director
(1981 to 1997) of the California Wilderness Coalition, a
nonprofit corporation committed to protecting California's wild
places and native biodiversity on a statewide level. He also is
a founder of The Wildlands Project, which envisions establishing
a network of protected areas and linkages to reestablish the
native biodiversity of North America, and has served as the
California and Hawaii Regional Representative of The Wilderness
Society.
Mr. Eaton helped organize and serves as a director of
Tuleyome, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the
agricultural and wild heritages of the Putah Creek and Cache
Creek watersheds and associated regions. He also is a fellow
with The Rewilding Institute, which is providing a long-term,
hopeful vision for conservation in North America.
RLF and RLFF Staff:
Marty Campbell provides executive leadership and vision to
RLF and RLFF. In this role, she develops and implements the
organizations’ long-term objectives, develops and coordinates
conservation program areas, and oversees external
communications, donor relations, and all organizational
operations.
Marty brings 25 years of foundation management and leadership
experience in the nonprofit sector as well as significant
on-the-ground experience. Most recently, Marty directed
philanthropic advisory services at Foundation Source, a provider
of support services for private foundations. Prior to that,
Marty served for 14 years at The James Irvine Foundation in
various capacities, including Vice President for Programs, where
she provided leadership in setting the Foundation’s strategies
and in overseeing its grantmaking. Marty also spent 10 years in
Africa leading natural resource management, agricultural and
health care programs for CARE, a large humanitarian organization
committed to helping families in developing countries. Marty is
a graduate of Dartmouth College, holds a Master’s degree in
Public Affairs from Princeton University, and has served on the
Board of Directors of the Lucile Packard Foundation for
Children’s Health, Grantmakers Evaluation Network, and
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
Sue Haderle, Chief Operating
Officer/Chief Financial Officer
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Ms. Haderle joined RLF and RLFF in 2006 to provide oversight
of programs and initiatives, as well as to manage finance,
accounting, and investments along with the ongoing operations of
both organizations.
Ms. Haderle brings over 25 years of experience in finance,
accounting, and management. Most recently, she was a director in
the Controller’s Office at Stanford University. Prior to that,
she was regional vice president of Horn Murdock Cole, a national
consulting firm providing business solutions in accounting and
finance, corporate governance, and information technology. Ms.
Haderle has held various finance and accounting management
positions with high-tech companies. She is currently on the
board of the Center for Land-Based Learning.
Ms. Haderle holds an MBA in Finance from the University of
Colorado, Boulder.
Meghan Hertel helps administer land-based philanthropic programs and coordinates Bay Area-based programs including RLF’s work on the South Bay Salt Ponds Project. She also administers RLF’s carbon offset program. Mrs. Hertel holds an M.A. in Environmental Science and Policy from Clark University, served as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow in 2006-2007 working on environmental justice and health issues, and was a 2009 Water Education Foundation Water Leader.
Robin Jenkins helps administer ocean, coasts, and fisheries programs, providing research, grantee oversight, and communications to the California Coastal and Marine Initiative, and is the lead administrative liaison to the MLPA Initiative. Prior to joining RLF, she worked for six years as a program analyst for Resources Law Group; eighteen years with the California State Senate providing legislative and committee support for an East Bay senator; and, four years in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program as the assistant to the Executive Director.
Mark Kleinman works closely with outside consultants in designing and implementing philanthropic programs. For all RLF philanthropic initiatives he provides coordination, research, analysis, strategy development, writing, review and editing, and administration, as well as oversight of grantee, consultant, and public communications. He brings more than 25 years of experience in research, writing, and strategic and communications planning. A Ph.D. in American cultural history, he taught at UC San Diego and the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, publishing research on American politics, political culture, and foreign policy. After leaving academia, he worked as a marketing communications strategist in Sacramento, developing communications plans, campaigns and projects for corporate, government, and nonprofit clients including California Community Colleges, the Sierra Nevada Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, Sacramento Air Quality Management District, California Highway Patrol, Catholic Healthcare West, and CalPERS.
Aaron O’Callaghan helps administer land-based philanthropic programs, providing mapping and information system coordination, technical assistance in the development of projects, and management of program contractors. Prior to joining RLF, he worked for five years as a Program Analyst with Resources Law Group. Previously, he conducted research on the ecological systems of Lake Tahoe and the Bay-Delta in coordination with University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. Mr. O’Callaghan has a B.S. in Environmental Biology and Management from UC Davis.
Andy Reid provides coordination, research, and administrative support for the ocean, coasts, and fisheries, and Northwest Mexico Land Conservation programs. Prior to joining RLF, he worked for two years as a Program Analyst with Resources Law Group. Before that, he served for four years as Director of Business Affairs for RLF. Mr. Reid brings more than fifteen years experience in program management, nonprofit administration, grantmaking, and compliance, having served as administrator for the Mitchell Group, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based government contractor specializing in international development efforts, and as compliance specialist at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Mr. Reid received an M.A. in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Photograph by Doug Steakley
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