Meet the Board

Danielle Gore is the vice president of Gore Electric Company, Inc., a manufacturers’ representative agency founded in 1976. Growing up around the electric utility industry gave her an early appreciation for the people and partnerships that support the power grid....

Chris White joined the electric utility industry when he was elected to the Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees in 2022, and he became an NWPPA trustee last May. He has worked at Albertsons for 37 years and is...

Kevin Mara is the executive vice president at GDS Associates, also doing business as Hi-Line Engineering. He began his career 43 years ago as a distribution engineer with an electric utility, where he spent five years gaining hands-on experience in...

Mike Klaus joined the NWPPA Board of Trustees in May. He is the city administrator and engineer for Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and has been in the utility industry for 28 years. Before joining the City of Bonners Ferry, Klaus worked...

Laura Lewis, chief legal and government affairs officer at SMUD, started her career in the electric utility industry in 1996, when she began working at SMUD as a law clerk. In 1997, she became a staff attorney. She stayed in...

Chris Davis owns and operates two wedding venues while also serving on Inland Power & Light Company’s and NWPPA’s boards. Before getting into the wedding business, he taught high school math, physics, and engineering for 11 years. He holds a...

Nick Dominguez started out at Lassen Municipal Utility District in Susanville, California, over 10 years ago as the IT operations technician. He was later promoted to IT manager and then to business manager. In 2024, he briefly joined Central Coast...

Tracy Yount, the energy and services development manager at Energy Northwest, has spent the majority of his over 25-year career in public power. Before he joined Energy Northwest in September 2024, he worked as director of strategic affairs at Chelan...

Rob Carr joined the utility industry 18 years ago and now serves as regional vice president for NWPPA associate member National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) serving utilities in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. He was elected to the NWPPA...

Rachel Morse joined the Chugach Electric Association Board of Directors seven years ago. She has served as chair, vice chair, and currently acts as treasurer of the board. She was elected to the NWPPA Board of Trustees in 2023. Morse’s...

Emily Compton is the member and energy services manager at Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative in Portola, California. She joined PSREC eight years ago and previously worked as the co-op’s community relations manager. Before PSREC, she was the outreach coordinator at...

Bart Stanley Miller has been in the utility industry for 20 years and joined the NWPPA Board of Trustees last May. He is the chief financial officer for Heber Light & Power in Utah and a certified public accountant. Miller...

Bill Stamm has worked for Alaska Village Electric Cooperative in Anchorage since he moved to The Last Frontier 30 years ago. He started out as a laborer and currently serves as the co-op’s president and CEO. Growing up in a...

Lon Rake has been involved in the utility industry for 34 years and currently serves as the board chair for Copper Valley Electric Association in Valdez, Alaska. For more than 30 years, his career has been in the telecommunications field.

Mark Hayden joined the utility industry 29 years ago and now serves as general manager of Missoula Electric Cooperative in western Montana. He was elected to the NWPPA Board of Trustees in May. Before joining MEC, Hayden lived in Wisconsin,...

Alex Cousins joined the utility industry 10 years ago and currently serves as vice chair of the Trinity PUD Board of Directors. He has been a trustee on NWPPA’s board since 2022. In addition to his work in the public...

Roger M. Kline is the general manager and CEO at Northern Wasco County PUD, located in The Dalles, Oregon, along the Columbia River. Kline started out his career in the U.S. Navy, working as a gas turbine mechanic on the...

Jonathan Dahl is a rancher and the vice president of the Wells Rural Electric Company Board of Directors. WREC provides power to more than 10,000 square miles of Northeastern Nevada and part of Tooele County in Utah. Dahl joined the...

Mike Squires joined the NWPPA Board as an associate member representative in 2019 after entering the utility industry in August 2018. He currently serves as the managing director of government affairs at Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS). Previously, he...

Gretchen Boardman carries out a unique role as general manager of not one but two Montana utilities: Big Flat Electric Cooperative in Malta and, as of July 2023, NorVal Electric Cooperative in Glasgow. Boardman joined the utility industry eight years...