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 BREDD + RC &D Feild Day 2007
Jean Curtiss was born and raised in Missoula County. Jean was elected to the Missoula County Board of Commissioners in 2000 and reelected in 2006. Prior to her position of County Commissioner Jean was involved both locally and nationally in early childhood education and advocacy. She owned and managed a daycare for nine years and she also held leadership positions in many organizations including 4-H, Cub-Scouts, Campfire Boys & Girls, the Missoula Child Care Association, the Montana Child Care Association, Child Care Resources, several local PTAs, the Montana PTA and the National PTA. Jean is married to Brad Curtiss and has three grown children. In her spare time, she likes to read, quilt and garden
GREG CHILCOTT, Vice President
Greg was born and raised in Ravalli County and currently serves as Ravalli County Commisioner. He has over 12 years experience working in the public sector. He received his Bachelor of Science in Education and spent 12 plus years as a private bush pilot in Alaska. He loves to hunt, white water raft, camp and golf. He has been married to his wife Vickie for 5 years, and they have 7 children and 7 wonderful grandchildren.
JAMES O DeBREE, Treasurer
Jim was born in Helena, Montana on September, 11, 1933. He graduated from Willow Creek Public Schools in 1951, received a BS and MS degree from MSU. Jim served as a pilot in the USAF from 1956-1963 throughout the U.S. and Far East.
He worked for the Montana State Extension Service from 1963 through 1983.
In 1983 he moved to Wyoming and became a district director for the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service and later promoted to the Director of Extension and Associate Dean in the College of Agriculture. Jim retired in 1995 and returned to Superior with his wife Shirley. They have two children, Robert and Gaylene
ED CHILDERS
Ed is an Army brat. He attended 1st-4th, 7th, 11th and 12th grades in Missoula, graduated in the final class of Missoula County High School in 1965, got a degree in English from the University of Montana, worked as a janitor for the University, as a clerk for a Montana State Liquore Store, then 20 years in the Missoula City Treasurer's Office, 12 of them as the elected City Treasurer, and now over 7 years as a Missoula City Alderman. He’s been married to the same woman since 1969, they have 2 kids and 1 granddaughter. The kids live out-of-state. He’s staying here.
KEVIN CHAMBERLAIN
Kevin has served as the Montana State University Extension Agent for Mineral County since 1989. In addition to traditional extension program responsibilities, he established the Mineral County Office of Economic Development which manages the Mineral County revolving loan fund. Kevin took the lead in establishing the Mineral County Economic Development Corporation, a 501C3 Non-profit Local Development Corporation. Kevin has completed the National Development Council – Economic Development Finance Professional Course in addition to other extension trainings and national conferences. He serves as the Mineral County Chairman for the BitterRoot RC&D and as the Vice President of the BitterRoot RC&D Board of Directors. ROBERT STRUCKMAN Robert Struckman is the associate publisher at NewWest.net. He worked at the Missoulian Newspaper untill early 2007 and now is enjoying working for NewWest.Net, an online news service and next-generation media company based in Missoula, Mont. He reported at western Montana’s daily newspaper for the previous two and a half years. His Missoulian coverage won awards and prompted one federal law. For the past two years, he also taught journalism at the University of Montana. Before coming to the Missoulian, he was a freelance writer in Montana and Colorado for newspapers including the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Denver Post and other national and regional dailies and weeklies and magazines such as the Smithsonian’s American Indian Magazine and others. He has also been a reporter at the Billings Gazette and, during graduate school, wrote as a stringer for the Oakland Tribune. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California in Berkeley in 1998. His bachelor’s degree is from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. He has a wonderful partner in Heather Corson; and the couple has two children. TOM GORMAN Tom Gorman is a Business Consultant for the Missoula Job Service Workforce Center. In this role he provides Human Resource, Employment Law, and Wage and Hour assistance to businesses throughout Missoula and Mineral counties. Tom also manages the Missoula Area Business Expansion and Retention Program (BEAR) which is a collaboration of 16 agencies from the throughout the economic development, education, workforce development and business communities providing support to businesses throughout the area. He is the Chapter Chair for the local SCORE chapter which provides free counseling to area small businesses.
He is the co-chair of the Montana Council on Industry and Economy committee of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Chamber’s Community Affairs committee.
Tom has been married to his girlfriend Pam for 36 years and they have two grown children; Brian Gorman of Cheyenne, Wy. And Jennifer Johnson of Seattle, Wa.
BJ McCOMB
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