The Reach Board
PFD Board
Campaign Steering Committee
The Reach is a 501(c)(3) organization created by a dynamic partnership
of local, state, and federal governments working in association with
community partners:
- Richland Public Facilities District
- Battelle
- Educational Service District 123
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology (CREHST)
- Tri-Cities Visitor and Convention Bureau
- Friends of the Hanford Reach
- Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society
- Atomic Heritage Foundation
- City of Richland
- LIGO (operated by California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Energy Northwest
- Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council
- Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
- Washington Department of Community Trade and Economic Development
- Benton County Public Facilities District
- Jack Baker
Vice President, Energy Northwest - Linda Boomer, liaison
President, Richland Public Facilities District - Daniel Boyd, Treasurer
CPA, Baker & Giles PS - Jack Briggs, Vice President
Friends of the Hanford Reach (former publisher, Tri-City Herald) - Nick Ceto
Project Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Jacqueline Fernette
Director of Communications and External Relations, Battelle - Michele Gerber
Historian, B Reactor Museum Association - Bruce Hawkins
Superintendent, Educational Service District 123 - Greg Hughes, ex officio
Project Manager, Hanford Reach National Monument, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Keith Klein
Consultant, Former Director U.S. Department of Energy Richland Operations - Rick Leaumont, Secretary
Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society - Ron Lerch, President
Secretary, Environmental Science and Technology Foundation - Gwen Leth
Director, Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science and Technology - Carl Sampson
Cheif of the Wala Walla Tribe - Diehl Rettig
Attorney, Rettig, Osborne, Forgette LLP - Kris Watkins, Vice President
President & CEO Tri-Cities Visitor and Convention Bureau - Jim Watts
Friends of the Hanford Reach - Gus Wiley
Retired Educator
- Linda Boomer, President
Franklin County Public Utility District - Rich Emery
Community First Bank - Eric Gerber, Vice President
The Gerber Group - Joel Rogo, Secretary
Tri-Cities Academy of Ballet - Burton Vaughan
Washington State University
Chairmen
- Rufus Friday, Co-Chair
Publisher, Tri-Cities Herald - Mike Kluse, Co-Chair
Laboratory Director, PNNL
- Frank Armijo
Director, Lockheed Martin Information Technology - Jack Briggs
Reach Board - Linda Boomer
Richland Public Facilities District - Rich Emery
Community First Bank - Jacqueline Fernette
Director of Communications and External Relations, Battelle - George Garlick
President, Garlick Enterprises - Diane Hoch
Owner, Sigma Financial Group - George Jackson
Senior Vice President, Fluor Government Group Operations - West - Bill Lampson
President, Lampson International - Ron Lerch
Chair, Reach Board - Rita Mazur
Richland City Councilwoman - Sid Morrison
Former Congressman - John Neill
Consultant - Rod Quinn
Associate Lab Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Diehl Rettig
Rettig, Osborne, Forgette LLP - Jim Watts
Reach Board - Lee Boman
Store Manager, JC Penney - Steve Simmons
Owner, The Country Gentleman Restaurant and Catering
