
Mike Sullivan
President
Mike and his wife, Susan Hirsch, live outside Shepherdstown in the Steamboat Run Community. Mike has worked extensively on watershed and water quality projects in…

Jim Cummins
Past President
Jim is a retired freshwater ecologist. Jim and his wife Nancy, a retired Jefferson County teacher, live in Bakerton. He has a Masters of Science…

Dana Fogle
Treasurer
Dana is a CPA and owns her own accounting firm in Shepherdstown. She has lived in the Eastern Panhandle since 2008 with her husband and…

Patti Mulkeen-Corley
Secretary
Patti is a newly-retired teacher who lives outside of Charles Town with her also-retired husband, Tom. She has a B.S. from Clarion University and Masters…

Janet Ady
At-large Member
Janet began her career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Environmental Education Center on the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, then…

Susan Brookreson
At-large Member
Susan is a founding member and past president of the Potomac Valley Audubon Society. She has a passion for education and the natural world. Susan…

Nathaniel ‘Than’ Hitt
At-large Member
Dr. Nathaniel “Than” Hitt is a research biologist at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center where he focuses on freshwater ecosystems and conservation science. He is a…

Peter L. Mulford
At-large Member
Peter grew up in Rochester, NY and is a graduate of The University of Vermont (AB, Political Science and Psychology) and Cornell University (MBA, Sloan…

Herb Peddicord
At-large Member
Herb Peddicord has been a resident of Martinsburg in Berkeley County, WV for 29 years. He has a BS in Forestry Resource Management and currently…

Kristan Phillips
At-large Member
Kris is happily retired so she can spend more time outdoors with her husband, including at their cabin in Morgan County. She has a BS…

Sally Reynolds
At-large Member
Sally Reynolds moved to Shepherdstown in 2017 after retiring as a microbiologist from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. Areas of research included developing molecular tools for…

Mary Lynn Robinson
At-large Member
Mary Lynn has been a member of PVAS and a certified Master Naturalist since 2013. She served on the Master Naturalist Coordinating Committee and was…

Carolyn Thomas
At-large Member
Carolyn has been a resident of the eastern panhandle for more than 30 years and has been involved in science and environmental education as a classroom…

Keith Unger
At-large Member
Keith Unger is currently Vice President and Trust Officer with City National Bank. Keith graduated Cum Laude from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of…

Jean Neely
Board Member Emeritus
Retired after a career in the U.S. Navy, Jean and her late husband moved to Shepherdstown in 1979. She was the founding president of PVAS…