Our Boards

FNLC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

We have board members from ten of the towns in Franklin and Grand Isle counties that ring the shoreline of the Northern Lake, plus board members with dairy farms upriver on the Missisquoi and Rock Rivers. Their efforts are critical to the success of FNLC.

Chair: Kent Henderson, Georgia
Vice Chair: Tim Smith, St. Albans
Treasurer: Ruth Wallman, Burlington and North Hero
Secretary: Michele Lawler, Swanton

David Borthwick-Leslie, Grand Isle
Carolyn Branagan, Georgia
Wayne Fiske, Franklin
Johanne Hamilton, West Swanton
Paul Hansen, Alburgh
Patrick Howrigan, Sheldon

Tom Hungerford, St. Albans
Sylvia Jensen, Isle LaMotte
Robert Krebs, South Hero
Bill Magnus, West Swanton
Patty Rainville, Swanton
Quintin Tyler, St. Albans and Highgate Springs


Paul Madden, Sheldon, Executive Director 

FNLC ADVISORY COUNCIL

Chair: Mary Watzin, Dean and Professor, UVM Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Heather Darby- UVM Extension, Farmers Watershed Alliance
Catherine Dimitruk- Executive Director, Northwest Regional Planning Commission
Phelan Fretz- Executive Director, ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain

Kent Henderson- Chair, Friends of Northern Lake Champlain
Pixley Hill- The Tyler Place Family Resort
Buzz Hoerr- Chair, Vermont Citizens Advisory Committee

Bill Howland- Manager, Lake Champlain Basin Program
Pierre Leduc- Chair, Organisme de bassin versant de la baie Missisquoi
Julie Moore- Stone Environmental, Inc.

Bob Paquin- USDA, Director of Vermont Farm Service Agency
Chris Smith- US Fish and Wildlife Service
Tom Torti- President, Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce