Nancy Finney

Nancy began her teaching career in the 1960s in the Alleghany Junior Senior High School, where she taught English, grades 7 through 12, for three years.  Although their professions took Nancy and her husband to other parts of California, they spent each summer at their home in Alleghany and considered Sierra County their residence. She joined the faculty at College of the Sequoias as reference librarian and advanced to Learning Resources Director, managing the library, tutorial, media services and distance ed programs at COS.

Having spent several decades of summers in Alleghany, in the midst of Tahoe National Forest, Nancy is well versed in the strongly felt community concerns each fire season.  She's a member of the Alleghany Volunteer Fire Department and attends Pliocene Ridge Community Service District meetings regularly.  She served recently as an interim member of the Board of Education, Sierra County.

Education:

• BA, English, San Francisco State University
• MA, Literature, San Francisco State University
• MLIS, San Jose State University

Kathleen Goicoechea

Most of Kathleen's professional background was in healthcare administration; managing physician practices, the indigent clinic, and practice administration. She serves on the board for Inc. Seniors of Sierra County in Loyalton and is the co-chair of the Health Care Coalition for Sierra County. She and her husband own and operate a ranch in Loyalton, CA and in her spare time paints both in watercolor and oils.

Education:

• Kathleen graduated from the University of Nevada-Reno in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business with an emphasis in accounting.

Laurenc DeVita

Owner/manager of timber producing property in Sierra County.

Education:

• BA Sociology/social psychology; MA Sociology

Board Membership:

• 1990-1991    Sierra Economic Development District Board
• 1995-2002    KMUD Citizens Advisory Board
• 1996-1997  Southern Humboldt Community Resource Center Board
• 2007-present  Sierra Cascade Family Opportunity Board

Other experience:

• 1997-1999    Klamath River Basin Recreational Resource Evaluation  U.S.G.S./CRED
• Years behind a chainsaw!

Peter Huebner

Peter is currently serving his third term with the Sierra County Board of  Supervisors and is on the following boards and committees for Sierra County:

• Personnel, Parks and Recreation
• Health and Social Services
• Public Works
• Roads and Solid Waste
• Law Enforcement & Justice
• Airport Advisory
• Risk Management
• Sierra County Business and Economic
• Western Sierra County Senior Housing & Care
• Nortec
• Northern Sierra Air Quality
• LAFCo
• Local Transportation
• Long Valley Groundwater District
• CSAC Board of Directors
• CSAC-Eia - alternate
  
• RCRC - Alternate
  
• Trindel
• Fish & Game
• Sierra County Fire Safe and Watershed Council, Inc.

After a sailing odyssey in the North and South Pacific from 1985 to 1991 he orchestrated an effort to get medical help to needy children in the islands of the South Pacific, arranging trips for volunteer doctors, dentists and nurses, so they could provide medical service and education to villagers on remote islands.

Robert Eshleman

Robert is a native Californian. He worked as a research physiologist doing neurophysiological research in the laboratory of Professor Walter J. Freeman III M.D. at Berkeley.  In 1977 Robert was hired by the Western Pacific Railroad being employed as both a brakeman and a switchman, a job he worked until 1983.  In 1982 he became a licensed general contractor in the state of California and made that business his major career.

His ties to Sierra County are deep with long established family in the county. He is a permanent county resident and lives in Sierra City.  Currently Robert and his wife Cracker own and manage forest property in Sierra County.  They are active members of Forest Landowners of California (FLOC), a non-industrial forestry association that educates on forestry issues and pursues the policies which best serve the health and productivity of the private forestry land of California. More recently FLOC has been conducting field trips and seminars regarding fuel load problems in the forest and best management techniques, issues which are strongly relevant for Sierra County.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Physiology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973.

Gary Shelton

Among his many talents, Gary knows all about fire behavior from working many years for the US Forest Service as a smoke jumper, fire manager and safety officer.

Gary cares deeply about our community welfare as evidenced by his service on:

• The City of Loyalton Council as Vice Mayor

• President of Inc. Senior Citizens of Sierra County,

• Sierra County Transportation Committee,

• Health Care Coalition,

• The Sierra County Economic Development Committee