The Board
of Directors of 1000 Friends of Florida is made up of leaders from around
the state who are dedicated, respected advocates of effective growth
management. The organization's goal is to include on its board a broad
representation of Floridians, emphasizing geographic diversity as well
as a mix of backgrounds, experience and expertise.
Officers
Victoria
Tschinkel, Chairman
of Tallahassee, is the past State Director of the Florida Chapter
of The Nature Conservancy. Tschinkel served as a senior consultant specializing
in environmental matters with the law firm of Landers and Parsons from
1988 - 2002 and as Secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental
Regulation from 1981 to 1987. She is a member of the National Academy
of Public Administration, serves on the Advisory Board of the National
Renewables Energy institute and was a member of National Commission
on the Environment. Ms. Tschinkel currently serves on the National Academy
of Sciences Board on IRadioactive Waste Management, and the boards of
directors of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, and ConocoPhillips
Company.
Timothy
Jackson, Vice Chairman
is president of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., a community planning
consulting firm in Orlando, Atlanta, and West Palm Beach. Jackson is
a professional engineer and planner who consults in the areas of comprehensive
planning and transportation planning, including multimodal plans, corridor
studies, context sensitive design, land use plans, and long range vision-based
plans. He is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
and the Congress for New Urbanism.
F. Gregory
Barnhart, Secretary
of West Palm Beach, received his A.B. from Vassar College and J.D. from
Cornell University, and has been a partner in Searcy Denney Scarola
Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., in West Palm Beach since 1981. He has
held numerous offices with the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, including
serving as its president from 1993-1994. He has served on the boards
of the Florida Lawyers Action Group, Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
Research and Education Foundation, as president of the Federal Bar Association,
Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach
County and other professional organizations. Mr. Barnhart is a regularly
published author and lecturer in the field of trial law and advocacy,
and is listed in the national publication The Best Lawyers in America.
J. Allison
DeFoor, II, Treasurer
is a seventh-generation Floridian and lives at Wakulla Springs. He has
a BA in geography and MA in criminology from the University of South
Florida, law degree from Stetson, and a M.Div. and D.Min. from the South
Florida Center for Theological Studies. He is the current State Coordinator
for EarthBalance, a national environmental restoration firm. He is a
well-known conservationist, a businessman, Florida historian, a former
county and circuit judge and Sheriff of Monroe County. Dr. DeFoor was
the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor in 1990, as running-mate to
Gov. Bob Martinez. As Governor Bush's "Everglades Czar" he
put together the largest land restoration project in world history.
He has been active in business, and served on the boards of numerous
corporations and a bank. He serves as a governor of the Florida Chamber
of Commerce and a director of TaxWatch and Associated Industries of
Florida. He was president of the Florida Keys Land & Sea Trust,
also of the Florida Land Trust Association, a director of Florida Audubon,
and was recipient of its "Chairman's Award" in 1999. He was
named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in America in 1985. He has
taught at numerous colleges, including 15 years at University of Miami
Law School, Florida A&M and lectured most recently at Yale and Penn.
He has been a trustee of two colleges. He has authored 10 books and
numerous journal articles including one mid-19th century Florida history.
Board
Members Emeritus
John
M. DeGrove, President Emeritus
of Gainesville, is the first holder of the John M. DeGrove Eminent Scholar
Chair in Growth Management and Development at Florida Atlantic University
(FAU). DeGrove served as the founding director of FAU/FIU Joint Center
for Environmental and Urban Problems from 1972-1998. He is a professor
with FAU's Department of Political Science, a leading figure in Florida
growth management, and a nationally recognized authority in the fields
of planning and public administration. As Secretary of Florida's Department
of Community Affairs (1983-1985), he was instrumental in the conception
and passage of the 1985 Growth Management Act and the State Comprehensive
Plan. His memberships include the National Academy of Public Administration,
the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified
Planners. He served as an advisor to the state/regional/local planning
and growth management systems in the states of California, Georgia,
Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maryland,
Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas
and Canada. A frequent contributor to a variety of journals and law
reviews, some of Dr. DeGrove's publications include Planning Policy
and Politics: Smart Growth and the States, Land, Growth and Politics
and The New Frontier for Land Policy: Planning and Growth Management
in the States. DeGrove was a member of the Governor's Commission for
a Sustainable South Florida and Chairman of the Commission's Committee
on Urban Form, Intergovernmental Coordination and Governance.
Nathaniel
Reed, Chairman Emeritus
of Hobe Sound, is a former member and Vice Chairman of the National
Audubon and The Nature Conservancy Boards, and the Natural Resources
Defense Council. He presently serves on the boards of the National Geographic
Society, Hope Rural School, and the Everglades Foundation. Reed served
as Chairman of the Florida Department of Air and Water Pollution Control
from 1968-71 and as Assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1971-77.
Governor Martinez chose him as chairman of the Commission on the Future
of Florida's Environment which recommended Preservation 2000 the most
ambitious land acquisition effort in our nation's history. Two million
preserved acres later, the program has wide public support. He served
on numerous state and private commissions: most recently as co-chairman
of the Urban Land Institute's recent study of how Florida counties should
improve cooperative and coordination of the Florida Greenways Commission.
He is a past member of the governing board of the South Florida Water
Management District, with whose service spanned 14 years. In April 1994,
Reed received the Alexander Calder Distinguished Achievement Award.
Board
of Directors
Lester
Abberger,
of Tallahassee is a senior consultant to the D. A. Davidson investment
banking firm, managing partner of Florida Lobby Associates, and vice
president of Hometown Neighborhoods, a new urbanist real estate consulting
and development concern. He is a trustee of the National Trust for the
Humanities, chairman of the City of Tallahassee's Urban Design Commission,
chairman of the Seaside Institute, chairman of the Trust for Public
Land Florida Advisory Council, chairman of the Florida Conservation
Campaign, and a trustee of the LeRoy Collins Institute. He serves on
the boards of Fugelberg Koch Architects, M & S Bank, the Museum
of Florida History and the Leon County Public Library System. He is
a graduate of Davidson College, where he serves on the Board of Visitors,
and is a Knight Fellow at the University of Miami School of Architecture.
Kathy
Castor,
of Tampa, is a native of Florida and graduate of Chamberlain High School
in Tampa. Ms. Castor has a bachelor's degree from Emory University in
political science and a law degree from Florida State University of
Law. Prior to being elected to serve in the U.S. Congress representing
Florida's 11th congressional district, she served on the Hillsborough
Board of County Commissioners from 2002-2006. Before that, she was in
private practice with a local law firm, and was the Assistant General
Counsel to the Florida Department of Community Affairs in Tallahassee
from 1991 to 1994. Commissioner Castor served as Chair of the Environmental
Protection Commission of Hillsborough County from 2004 to 2005 and as
a member of The Tampa Bay Water Regional Water Supply Authority from
2002 to 2004. Commissioner Castor serves on the MacDill Air Force Base
Land Use Study Committee, Agency on Bay Management, Arts Council, Hillsborough
Area Regional Transit Authority, Hillsborough Metropolitan Planning
Organization (MPO), Old Gandy Bridge Oversight Committee (Friendship
Trail), and is the Commission liaison to the Southwest Florida Water
Management District. In
addition to co-authoring a number of articles and publications, she
has served as pro bono counsel to the Lowry Park Zoo and the Florida
Battered Women's Clemency Project. As the Project's first pro bono counsel,
she won clemency from the Governor and Cabinet for her client under
a program initiated by the late Governor Lawton Chiles. She was awarded
the 2005 Government Tampa Bay Business Woman of the Year by the Tampa
Bay Business Journal.
Robert
S. Davis,
is the founder of Seaside, Florida, described by Time magazine as "
.the most astonishing design achievement of its era and one might hope,
the most influential." As the birthplace of a growing movement
in land planning known as The New Urbanism, Seaside's influence has
spread widely and is helping to revolutionize town planning in America.
Seaside has won numerous awards for its architecture and town planning
and has been the subject of three books and countless articles. Mr.
Davis is a recipient of the Rome Prize, Florida's Governor's Award and
Coastal Living's Conservation Award for Leadership. He is a principal
in The Arcadia Land Company, a firm specializing in town building and
land stewardship. Mr. Davis serves on the Boards of Directors for The
Congress for The New Urbanism and The Seaside Institute,. He has served
on Florida's Environmental Land Management Study Committee to write
and update Florida's growth management legislation and on The Governor's
Council for Sustainable Florida. A graduate of Antioch College and the
Harvard Business School, Mr. Davis is also a Fellow of the American
Academy in Rome and the Institute of Urban Design.
Joel
Embry,
Joel Embry is President of HomeTown Neighborhoods, Inc. and founder
of Amelia Park, a traditional neighborhood development in Fernandina
Beach. Based on experience at Amelia Park, Embry has facilitated development
of Clark's Grove in Covington, GA and is currently engaged in planning
of Welaunee, a new mixed-use, walkable neighborhood in Tallahassee.
Additionally, he has performed adaptive restoration of six historic
buildings in the Fernandina Beach Historic District. Embry is a trustee
of the LeRoy Collins Institute at Florida State University and served
as founding chairman of the Leadership Florida Institute.
Michael
Garretson,
of Ft. Lauderdale is the Deputy Superintendent for the Broward County
School District. He has extensive experience in planning and development
in both the public and private sectors. He has served as Director of
Planning for both Broward County and the City of Jacksonville. He was
also Director of the Division of Resource Planning and Management in
the Department of Community Affairs. In the private sector he has worked
for several large community development companies and was Director of
Area Development for the Euro Disney project outside Paris.
Milissa
Holland,
of Palm Coast is the first woman elected to the Flagler County Board
of County Commissioners. She is Chair and CFO of the James F. Holland
Foundation, which provides grants and supports programs for children
of Flagler County. She also serves on the boards of the Management Advisory
Group for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve
(GTMNERR), Executive Board of Directors of Enterprise Flagler, Partnership
with the University of Florida for Water, Agriculture, and Community
Sustainability at "Hastings" Advisory Committee, and the Flagler
County Sexual Assault Task Force. She is a former member of the Board
of Directors of the Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council.
Ralph
B. Johnson,
of Fort Lauderdale, is a professor at Florida Atlantic University School
of Architecture and Director of the Center for Redevelopment and Education
(CURE) and Director of the Center for the Conservation of Architectural
and Cultural Heritage (CCACH), Florida Atlantic University. From 1988-1997
he was the Director of the Research & Education Center for Architectural
Preservation (RECAP) at the University of Florida. He serves on the
Board of Directors for Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, the
Bonnet House Board of Trustees as well as the Expanding & Preserving
Our Cultural Heritage, Spady Cultural Heritage Museum Board of Trustees.
He was formerly a board member of the Dade Heritage Trust in Miami,
President of the Miami-Dade Historic Preservation Board and a contributor
to the Miami Historic Overtown Folklife Village concept. Mr. Johnson
is a frequent contributor to a variety of publications.
Curtis Kiser,
was a Senator for District 19 in Florida from 1984-94, served in the
Florida House from 1972-82, and was a Republican minority leader from
1978-82. He was often voted "Most Effective Legislator" during
his terms of office. A noted champion of environmental concerns, he
earned the Florida Conservation Award five times for development of
the Preservation 2000 Program. In 1995, Kiser received the Legislative
Excellence Award by the Florida Audubon Society for his work on the
Everglades legislation and Preservation 2000. In 1999 he was appointed
by Governor Bush to serve as chairman of the Governor's Commission on
the Everglades. In 2000 Mr. Kiser was awarded the "Bill Sadowski
Award" by 1000 Friends of Florida, recognizing his years of service
for environmental issues. Mr. Kiser was one of the authors of the Administrative
Procedure Act and has lectured at numerous Bar seminars. He is a member
of The Florida Bar and the American Bar Association. He also is a member
of the Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists and chairman of
the Leroy Collins Institute at Florida State University.
James
C. Nicholas,
of Gainesville, has been with the University of Florida as the Co-Director
of Growth Management Studies from 1985-92. He was a faculty member at
Florida Atlantic University Department of Economics from 1969-85. Dr.
Nicholas is the former Associate Director and Acting Director of the
Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems. He is a member of
the American Economic Association, American Planning Association, Urban
Land Institute Executive Council, Southern Economics Associations, and
the American Real Estate & Urban Economics Association. Dr. Nicholas
received his B.B.A., M.A. from the University of Miami and his Ph.D.,
from the University of Illinois.
Steve
Pfeiffer,
of Sarasota, serves as General Counsel to New College of Florida in
Sarasota. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of
Virginia and his Juris-Doctorate from the University of Florida. Prior
to joining New College, he was engaged in the private practice of law
in Tallassee, specializing in administrative law and land use law. He
was formerly Assistant Secretary at the Florida Department of Community
Affairs, a Hearing Officer at the Division of Administrative Hearings,
Legal Director and General Counsel for 1000 Friends of Florida, and
General Counsel to the Department of Community Affairs. Mr. Pfeiffer
has taught Administrative Law and Growth Management Law at the law school
at Florida State University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of
the Florida Conflicts Resolution Consortium. He served as the first
Chair of the Florida Building Commission in 1998-1999. He was Chair
of the Administrative Law Section of the Florida Bar in 1992-1993, and
he chaired Florida's Sixth Administrative Law Conference in 1988.
Sibille
Hart Pritchard,
of Orlando, is Senior Vice President of Brooksville Development Corporation.
She is Vice-Chairman of The Florida Arts Council and was appointed by
Governor Jeb Bush as Commissioner of the Seminole County Housing Authority.
She also serves on the Board of Governors of the Florida Chamber of
Commerce and on the Community Board of the Florida State University
Medical School. She is the President of the Preserve Eatonville Community
and the Zora Neale Hurston Festival. She is married to Dr. Peter Pritchard,
a world renowned conservationist and expert on turtles.
C. Allen
Watts,
of Daytona Beach,
is an attorney concentrating on land use, administrative law and local
government matters. He is a partner in Cobb & Cole, where he chairs
the environmental and land use department. He is a board-certified expert
in city, county and local government law, and has served as counsel
to numerous counties, county charter commissions, new and existing cities,
and school districts. He has helped form consensus on problems as varied
as education concurrency, wetlands and habitat conservation, solid waste
management, transportation funding and utility financing.
Past
members of the Board of Directors:
Harry
Adley, Sarasota
Jim Apthorp, Tallahassee
Reubin O'D. Askew, Orlando
Valerie Boyd, Naples
Bernard Budd, Hollywood
Jerry Chicone, Orlando
Thaddeus Cohen, Delray Beach
Jack Conway, Sarasota
Gay Culverhouse, Tampa
Steve Cutright, Tallahassee
Talbot (Sandy) D'Alemberte, Tallahassee
Ane Deister, Miami
Fred C. Donovan, Pensacola
Edgar Dunn, Daytona Beach
Larry Durrence, Lakeland
Carl Feiss, Gainesville
Betty Fleming, Miami
Bill Frederick, Orlando
Robin Gibson, Lake Wales
Lewis Goodkin, Miami
Roy Harrell, St. Petersburg
Preston Haskell, Jacksonville
Warren Henderson, Sarasota
Joseph Hixon, Ponte Vedra Beach
Stanley Hole, Naples
Helen Hood, Gainesville
Bob Hopkins, Winter Park
Allen Jelks, Panama City
Alex Jernigan, Sebastian
Mary Kumpe, Sarasota
Phil Lewis, Riviera Beach
Greg McIntosh, Fort Lauderdale
Buddy MacKay, Ocala
Jack Maloy, Viera
Frank Mann, Fort Myers
Karen Marcus, Palm Beach
Lenore McCullagh, Orange Park
Arsenio Milian, Miami
Lee Moffitt, Tampa
Bob Parks, Coral Gables
Herb Peyton, Jacksonville
Robert Rhodes, Tallahassee
Carol Rist, Miami
Nancy Roen, Jupiter
Don Ross, North Port
Arthur Saarinen, Gainesville
Bruce Samson, Tampa
Jim Shore, Hollywood
Lester Simon, Miami
Rachel (Rae) Small, Cedar Key
Hudson Smith, White Springs
Jerry Sokolow, Miami
Earl Starnes, Cedar Key
Nancy Stroud, Boca Raton
Theodore Taub, Tampa
Vicki Tschinkel, Tallahassee
Susan Wiles, Jacksonville
Jack Wilson, Tampa
