Commissioners
Cindy Gustafson, President
Mr. Jim Kellogg, Vice President
Mr. Richard B. Rogers, Member
Mr. Michael Sutton, Member
Mr. Daniel W. Richards, Member
President Cindy Gustafson, of Tahoe City, was appointed to the Fish and Game Commission on June 20, 2005. Ms. Gustafson is currently the assistant general manager of the Tahoe City Public Utility District. She was previously director of community relations for Perini Land and Development and a field representative for Placer County Supervisor Mike Fluty. She serves on the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District Board of Trustees, the Lake Tahoe Federal Advisory Committee and is a former board member of the Tahoe Baikal Institute. Ms. Gustafson is a former board member and president of the Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation, a former member of the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency and a former alternate board member of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
Her term on the Commission expires January 15, 2010.
Vice President Jim Kellogg, of Concord, was appointed to the Commission on January 31, 2002, to complete the term of the position vacated by former Commissioner Richard Thieriot. He was reappointed on March 28, 2006 to a six year term. Growing up in the Bay Area James W. Kellogg is a native Californian who has spent thirty eight years with the (UA) United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada. He was first elected to full time office with the Steamfitters Local Union 342 in 1976.
Jim has devoted his entire adult life to helping people and doing whatever possible to provide the best working environment and conditions that the particular times would bear for the people he represents. He has been recognized many times over for his leadership abilities and has gained the respect and admiration of everyone who has had the opportunity to interface with him.
In 1992, Jim went to work for the International and currently is the International Representative in charge of California and Hawaiian Islands for the UA.
He is a strong supporter of education and heavily promotes union apprenticeship and journeyman training programs and has been rewarded for those efforts by having two schools in Northern California named after him. He is the founder of the California Native American Apprenticeship Initiative.
After years of community service and serving on many statewide labor boards and committees, Jim in January 1999 was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the powerful California Transportation Commission and served as Chairman in 2000. He has also been appointed by Governor Davis to the California Fish and Game Commission, the Commission on Building for the 21st Century, and the California State Work Force Investment Board. He serves on the Board of Directors for the California Residence Foundation, Board of Directors Contra Costa College Foundation, Board of Directors for the Mesothelioma Research Foundation of America, Board of Directors for the America on the Move Foundation, and is the labor representative on the oversight committee for Contra Costa County's "Shaping Our Future" project. He serves on the Executive Board of the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Posse and is Vice President of the California State Building & Construction Trades Council. He is a member of California Waterfowl Association, Outdoor Sportsmen's Coalition of California, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, California Deer Association, Ducks Unlimited, California State Sheriff's Association and is a lifetime member of the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation.
His term on the Fish and Game Commission expires on January 15, 2012.
Richard B. Rogers, of Carpinteria, was appointed to the Fish and Game Commission on January 18, 2005. Mr. Rogers is a third generation Californian. He is Chairman of the Board, Pacific Earth Resources: a diversified environmental horticulture services company. He is also General Partner, Pacific Ranch Company: a farming and real estate company with farming and investment operations in California, Hawaii, and Utah.
He also serves as Vice Chairman of the National Board of Trustees of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at The University of California at Santa Barbara, and is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Mr. Rogers has served on many state and national boards with a focus on conservation, bio-diversity, and the governance of philanthropic organizations. He formerly served six years on the California State Board of Forestry and was chair of the Forest Practice Committee. He was a member and co-Chair of the Museum Assessment Program (MAP) Governance Task Force, American Association of Museums (AAM) and a site surveyor and Peer Reviewer for MAP and AAM Governance. He is currently President of the Council for a Green Environment. He is a Lifetime Member of the California Highway patrol 11-99 Foundation.
Mr. Rogers graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a BS Electrical Engineering and the University of Southern California with an MBA in Finance. He is an Eagle Scout and served combat tours in Vietnam.
His term on the Commission expires January 15, 2011.
Michael Sutton, of Monterey, was appointed to the Fish and Game Commission on May 4, 2007. He was reappointed on March 25, 2009 to a six-year term. Sutton has served as vice president and founding director of the Center for the Future of the Oceans at the Monterey Bay Aquarium since 2004. Previously, he served as program officer for the conservation and science program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from 1999 to 2004. Prior to that, Sutton served as vice president of the U.S. Land and Wildlife Program for the World Wildlife Fund from 1995 to 1999, as well as senior program officer for international wildlife policy for the World Wildlife Fund from 1990 to 1992. He also served as special agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1984 to 1990. Sutton worked for the National Park Service as a park ranger from 1980 to 1984.
His term on the Commission expires January 15, 2015.
Daniel W. Richards, of Upland California, was appointed to the Fish and Game Commission on February 14, 2008. Daniel is a graduate of West Virginia University. He is married to Judy K. Richards and has a married daughter Kendra L. Richards-Miller. For the past 25 years, he has dealt in commercial real estate and real estate development. Currently he owns Coldwell Banker Commercial Inland Empire and is one of the top 50 Coldwell Banker Commercial Brokers, worldwide.
Along with being involved in many community activities, he is currently a Life Member of The Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep and Trout Unlimited. Daniel is also a supporting member of Ducks Unlimited and various other conservation organizations. He works closely with non-profit organizations in the Upland area to help them grow and find success, and has recently received the Leadership Award from the Foothill Family Shelter. Daniel enjoys fly fishing, hunting, and traveling with his family.
His term on the Commission expires January 15, 2013