William D. Ruckelshaus
is currently a Strategic Director in the Madrona Venture Group
and a principal in Madrona Investment Group, L.L.C. (MIG),
a Seattle based investment company. He formerly served as
Chairman/CEO and Chairman of Browning-Ferris Industries.
Mr. Ruckelshaus graduated from Princeton
University and Harvard University Law School. He began his
law career in Indiana, and served as Deputy Attorney General
of Indiana and as member and majority leader of the Indiana
House of Representatives. In 1969 and 1970, the President
appointed him as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the
Civil Division for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mr. Ruckelshaus became the United States
Environmental Protection Agency's first Administrator when
the agency was formed in December 1970. In April 1973 he was
appointed acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and in the same year was named Deputy Attorney General of
the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Ruckelshaus was
appointed by President Reagan as the fifth EPA Administrator
in 1983 and continued through 1985.
Currently, Mr. Ruckelshaus serves as a
director of several corporations, including Cummins Engine
Company, Pharmacia Corporation, Solutia, Inc., Nordstrom,
Inc. and Weyerhaeuser Company. He has served on the World
Commission on Environment and Development, and was appointed
by President Clinton as the U.S. envoy in the implementing
of the Pacific Salmon Treaty. He currently serves as the Chairman
of the Salmon Recovery Funding Board for the State of Washington,
Chairman of World Resources Institute in D.C and is on the
Board of University of Wyoming Institute for Environment and
Natural Resources. He also serves on the Board of numerous
other nonprofit organizations.
On June 2001, he was appointed by President
Bush as a member of the Commission on Ocean Policy, created
by Congress in 2000. |
