Officers  PRESIDENT
Elizabeth Cotsworth
Senior Advisor, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, Environmental Protection Agency
Elizabeth is approaching her 37th anniversary as a public servant, largely with the Environmental Protection Agency. Elizabeth started at EPA as a Management Intern and was selected into the Senior Executive Corps in 1994, when she assumed a leadership role in the Office of Solid Waste. She subsequently served as the Director of EPA’s Office of Radiation and Indoor Air. She is currently serving as a senior advisor in the Office of Air and Radiation, on a part-time basis. She received two Presidential Rank Awards of Meritorious Executive for her contributions to national environmental programs.
Elizabeth is an active member of the Arlington, VA community, where she resides with her husband and raised their three daughters. Contact:
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Margaret (Peg) Weir Executive Director, Global Business Development, United States Postal Service Margaret Weir is a results-oriented executive and leader with over 25 years of U.S. Postal Service experience in Business Development, Operations, Finance, Risk Management and Program Management. This broad experience has afforded her the opportunity to address challenges from a strategic and tactical perspective at the corporate and field levels. Weir’s effective team building skills have cultivated an active network of positive working relationships at all levels within and external to the Postal Service. Weir has received several awards for her leadership and teamwork.
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 VICE PRESIDENT Carolyn C. Cole
Manager, Energy Initiatives, United States Postal Service Carolyn C. Cole is the Manager of the United States Postal Service’s Energy Initiatives group, reporting to the Vice President of Sustainability. She is responsible for leading cross-functional efforts to reduce energy consumption and costs while maintaining continuity of operations. Ms. Cole created the first national energy management plan in the history of the Postal Service. This new plan identifies goals and standards for energy reduction and consumption for facility energy management, fleet management, fuel use and energy consumption.
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Contact: 202-268-4136
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 SECRETARY
Betsy Smidinger
Director, of the Resource Conservation and Sustainability Division, Environmental Protection Agency
Betsy Smidinger began her federal career at the US Patent and Trademark Office in 1986. She joined EPA in 1988 and has since held a series of positions with increasing leadership responsibility that rely on a mix of technical and legal skills. She served nearly 20 years in EPA’s enforcement and compliance assurance arena in various leadership positions overseeing high visibility information and reporting projects. In 2009, Ms. Smidinger was selected for and completed the EPA’s Office of Personnel Management-approved Senior Executive Service (SES) Federal Candidate Development Program (CDP), and received SES approval by the OPM Qualifications Review Board. For the past year, Ms. Smidinger has been acting in an SES Position as the Director of the Resource Conservation and Sustainability Division promoting the reduction, reuse, recovery and recycling of municipal, industrial and extractive wastes and the long term sustainable management of these materials. Ms. Smidinger holds a Bachelors of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland.
Ms. Smidinger joined Executive Women in Government in the fall of 2008 and quickly became an active member by serving as the Communications co-chair in 2009.
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 TREASURER
Lesia M. Banks, MBA, Ed. D.
Chief, Statutory Compliance and Research Division, United States Department of State Dr. Banks currently serves as Chief of the Statutory Compliance and Research Division in the Office of Information Programs and Services at the United States Department of State. She is responsible for a portfolio that includes worldwide programs and a multi-million dollar budget for the purpose of centralizing the Department’s compliance with the access provisions of various federal information access laws and mandates; governing the release to the public and the need to know community of official State Department records, the protection of individual privacy, and the safeguarding of national security information.
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Committee Chairs | ANNUAL CONFERENCE  Marylouise Uhlig
Associate Assistant Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Contact: 202-564-0545 or
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 Chris Tirpak
Management Integrity Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Contact: 202-564-0546 or
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BY-LAWS
 Kate M. Perry
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency Contact: 202-564-4059 or
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COMMUNICATIONS
 Kathy Gugulis
Deputy Director and Counsel to the Director, Executive Office for US Attorneys, Department of Justice
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MEMBERSHIP
 Michele Heffner
Director, Interagency Policy and management Division, Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration
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 Lenore Mullin
On sabbatical from National Science Foundation
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PROGRAM
Kathleen Bartholomew Team Leader, Environmental Management Integration Team, Office of Environment Policy and Compliance, U.S. Department of Interior Contact: 202-208-3901 or
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Lesia M. Banks, MBA, Ed. D. Chief, Statutory Compliance and Research Division, United States Department of State Contact: 202-261-8656 or
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 Paula Farrell
Director, Policy and Legislative Review, Office of Domestic Finance, Department of the Treasury
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STATUS OF WOMEN
 Mary Josie Blanchard
Deputy Director, Environmental Policy & Compliance, Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior Contact:
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Vicki Allums Associate General Counsel, Defense Information Systems Agency, Department of Defense Contact:
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