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. During this period she served on the Board of Directors of Audubon of Florida and Resources for the Future in Washington, DC and a Member, National Advisory Committee on Environmental Technology and Policy, a Senior Advisory Committee at the Environmental Protection Agency as well as the National Commission on the Environment. Previously, in the Administrations of Governor Ruben Askew and Governor Bob Graham Ms. Tschinkel served in various positions in the environmental agencies at that time, and finally 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 National Energy Advisory Board of the National Renewables Energy Laboratory and is a member of the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips. But for her tenure at TNC, she has been a member of the Board of 1000 Friends of Florida since 1987.
Timothy Jackson, Vice Chairman
is a vice-president of AECOM, Inc., a global consultancy which provides innovative solutions for great cities. 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 a native Floridian, and lives in Longwood with his wife and three sons.
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.
Board Members Emeritus
Robert S. Davis, Emeritus
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.
John M. DeGrove, President Emeritus
was 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, and later served as a professor with FAU’s Department of Political Science. A leading figure in Florida growth management, he is nationally recognized for his leadership 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. A member of the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Planning Association, he is also is a Fellow of 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, the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Geographic Society and the Atlantic Salmon Federation. He presently serves on the boards of the Hope Rural School, Hobe Sound Community Chest 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 past chair of 1000 Friends of Florida. He is chairman of The Trust for Public Land (TPL) Florida Advisory Council, serves on the TPL National Leadership Council, is chair of the Florida Conservation Campaign, and is a director and chair of the Finance Committee of The Conservation Campaign. He is past chair of Leadership Florida, The Seaside Institute, and the City of Tallahassee Urban Design Commission. He serves on the boards of a number of public, charitable, and private concerns. 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.
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. Her Board appointments include, among others: Friends of the Museum of Florida History, Flagler County Tourist Development Council, Management Advisory Group for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR), University of Florida Partnership for Water, Agriculture and Community Sustainability at “Hastings” Advisory Committee, St. Johns River to Sea Loop and, former member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council, Executive Board of Directors of Enterprise Flagler, and the Flagler County Sexual Assault Task Force.
James C. Nicholas,
of Gainesville, is emeritus professor of urban & regional planning and emeritus professor of law at the University of Florida. In addition he was Associate Director of the Environmental & Land Use Law Program and, from 1985-92, Co-Director of Growth Management Studies. 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 is an attorney, now retired. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his Juris-Doctorate from the University of Florida. He served as General Counsel to New College of Florida in Sarasota from 2004-2009. Before that 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 for many years a member of the Executive Council of the Administrative Law Section of the Florida Bar and was Section Chair in 1992-1993.
Terry Turner
of Sarasota, is currently an elected commissioner for the City of Sarasota Florida and a board member for the Sarasota/Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization. Terry is a past member of Sarasota County’s Land Planning Authority, Committee for Economic Development, and its Environmentally Sensitive Lands Oversight Committee. He is a past member of the Manatee-Sarasota Sierra Club Conservation Committee and is past Board Chair of the Nature Conservancy of Florida. Terry had an extensive career in banking working most recently as managing director at First Union National Bank. He has also served as managing director at Bankers Trust Co. and as Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Bank of America. Prior to his career in banking, Terry taught finance and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and he worked in the engineering department at Eastman Kodak. He completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree at Ohio University, received an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Carnegie-Mellon University.
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.
Paul Zwick,
of Gainesville is Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. Paul is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. His research focuses on the use of geographic information systems in urban and environmental planning and engineering. He has helped lead the development of an environmental geographic information system for the Florida Department of Transportation, for the Florida Geographic Data Library (for dissemination of GIS data in Florida and throughout the nation), and for the development of greenways in the State of Florida. He also helped lead a project to identify and locate greenway corridors and recreational trails throughout the Southeastern United States. Zwick has his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science and his M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida, and his B.S. in Engineering Technology from the University of Central Florida.
Past
members of the Board of Directors:
Harry Adley, Sarasota
Jim Apthorp, Tallahassee
Reubin O’D. Askew, Orlando
Valerie Boyd, Naples
Bernard Budd, Hollywood
Kathy Castor, Tampa
Jerry Chicone, Orlando
Thaddeus Cohen, Delray Beach
Jack Conway, Sarasota
Gay Culverhouse, Tampa
Steve Cutright, Tallahassee
Talbot (Sandy) D’Alemberte, Tallahassee
Allison DeFoor, Tallahassee
Ane Deister, Miami
Fred C. Donovan, Pensacola
Edgar Dunn, Daytona Beach
Larry Durrence, Lakeland
Joel Embry, Fernandina Beach
Carl Feiss, Gainesville
Betty Fleming, Miami
Bill Frederick, Orlando
Mike Garretson, St. Augustine
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
Ralph Johnson, Ft. Lauderdale
Curt Kiser, Tallahassee
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
Sibille Pritchard, Orlando
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
Susan Wiles, Jacksonville
Jack Wilson, Tampa
