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Professor Rahmeyer was on the faculty at USU for 31 years and spent 10 years as research faculty at Colorado State University. Professor Rahmeyer is the past Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USU as well as the senior professor of the Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics program of the Utah Water Research Laboratory. He also served at USU as the director of the Hydro Composite Modeling Program, the division head of Water Engineering, the interim division head of both the Structures Division and the Transportation Division, and as the Undergraduate Curriculum division head. Professor Rahmeyer is currently working part time as a senior associate for Ayres and associates in Fort Collins Colorado, where his primary role is to conduct national workshops in hydraulics, culvert flow, and urban drainage for the National Hydraulic Institute of FWHA. He is a fellow and lifetime member in the American Society of Civil Engineers. Professor Rahmeyer has been a member of several professional societies, and serve on committees for the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), the Association of State Dam Safety Officers (ASDSO), the Instrument Society of America (ISA), the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the International Erosion Control Association (IECA), and the American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Association (ASHRAE). He has regularly attended and presented at the annual conferences of ASDSO, ASEE, ASCE, IAHR, ASCE National Department Heads, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). In the past, he has been a member of the United States Committee on Large Dams (USCOLD) and the International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD). Over the last several years, Professor Rahmeyer has created and presented a workshop on open channel flow for HalfMoon Education and finished serving on the Bluestone Dam UASCE IEPA and on several 100% DDR review panels for the USACE. He has been on the board of directors for the Utah Floodplain and Storm Water Management Association since 1986. Professor Rahmeyer was a member the 2008 Bettelle “Final Independent Peer Review Report for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Vegetation Policy for Local Flood Damage Reduction Systems” which reviewed many of the guidelines and policies for management of levees, floodwalls, embankment dams, and appurtenant structures. Some of his recent awards include the AHRAE Technical/Symposium Paper Award, the ASHRAE Crosby Field Award for Research, and the South Pacific Division Regional Project Delivery Team Award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has received the Idaho Transportation Department 2012 Excellence in Transportation Award and the 2011 ACEC of Idaho Engineering Excellence Grand Award for the I-84 New York Canal Modeling and Modification. Professor Rahmeyer further received an honorable mention at the 2012 National AECE award ceremonies for his work with the I-84 New York Canal.

Professor Rahmeyer was on the faculty at USU for 31 years and spent 10 years as research faculty at Colorado State University. Professor Rahmeyer is the past Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USU as well as the senior professor of the Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics program of the Utah Water Research Laboratory. He also served at USU as the director of the Hydro Composite Modeling Program, the division head of Water Engineering, the interim division head of both the Structures Division and the Transportation Division, and as the Undergraduate Curriculum division head. Professor Rahmeyer is currently working part time as a senior associate for Ayres and associates in Fort Collins Colorado, where his primary role is to conduct national workshops in hydraulics, culvert flow, and urban drainage for the National Hydraulic Institute of FWHA. He is a fellow and lifetime member in the American Society of Civil Engineers. Professor Rahmeyer has been a member of several professional societies, and serve on committees for the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), the Association of State Dam Safety Officers (ASDSO), the Instrument Society of America (ISA), the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the International Erosion Control Association (IECA), and the American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Association (ASHRAE). He has regularly attended and presented at the annual conferences of ASDSO, ASEE, ASCE, IAHR, ASCE National Department Heads, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). In the past, he has been a member of the United States Committee on Large Dams (USCOLD) and the International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD). Over the last several years, Professor Rahmeyer has created and presented a workshop on open channel flow for HalfMoon Education and finished serving on the Bluestone Dam UASCE IEPA and on several 100% DDR review panels for the USACE. He has been on the board of directors for the Utah Floodplain and Storm Water Management Association since 1986. Professor Rahmeyer was a member the 2008 Bettelle “Final Independent Peer Review Report for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Vegetation Policy for Local Flood Damage Reduction Systems” which reviewed many of the guidelines and policies for management of levees, floodwalls, embankment dams, and appurtenant structures. Some of his recent awards include the AHRAE Technical/Symposium Paper Award, the ASHRAE Crosby Field Award for Research, and the South Pacific Division Regional Project Delivery Team Award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has received the Idaho Transportation Department 2012 Excellence in Transportation Award and the 2011 ACEC of Idaho Engineering Excellence Grand Award for the I-84 New York Canal Modeling and Modification. Professor Rahmeyer further received an honorable mention at the 2012 National AECE award ceremonies for his work with the I-84 New York Canal.

Ms. Anspaugh is a member of the firm’s Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group. She has assisted oil and gas producers for 19 years and has drafted over 1,000 drilling and division order title opinions. Ms. Anspaugh also assists operators with regulatory matters, such as permitting and petitions, and facilitates leasehold acreage acquisitions and contract and assignment negotiations. She is admitted to practice law in Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri. Ms. Anspaugh received her J.D. from the University of Tulsa. She is a member of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation; the American Association of Petroleum Landmen; the Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan Oil and Gas Associations; and the Indiana, Indianapolis and Michigan Bar Associations.

Attorney with Elias, Books, Brown & Nelson, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK
Mr. Dowd’s primary area of practice is oil and gas law, including the rendering of title opinions, litigation, and drafting and negotiation of industry contracts. He has vast experience in oil and gas title examination, transactions and civil litigation representing oil and gas clients for over 25 years. Mr. Dowd has represented international and independent oil and gas companies and individuals. Additionally, he has been a noted lecturer at over 100 seminars and CLE presentations. Mr. Dowd is a past president of the Oklahoma City Mineral Lawyers Society as well as past chairman of the Oklahoma Bar Association Mineral Law Section. He is also a member of the legal committee of Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, the Advisory Counsel to the Marginal Well Commission of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City Advisory Committee for the Center for Environment and Energy. Mr. Dowd is also the author of the chapter on oil and gas titles in West Publishing Company’s Oklahoma Real Estate Forms and Practice.

Wilhelm Law FirmMr. Wilhelm is licensed to practice law in Texas, Louisiana, and North Dakota. Mr. Wilhelm focuses his practice on oil and gas law, probate, wills and estate planning, commercial litigation, and representation of foreign businesses that invest in oil and gas activities. His oil and gas work focuses on the real estate side (oil and gas title examinations, acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas interests, due diligence, and commercial negotiations). Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Wilhelm worked as a petroleum landman in over 15 Texas counties. Mr. Wilhelm earned his J.D. degree from the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.

Cynthia Fraser Principal
Ms. Fraser is with Foster Garvey and has focused her 30 year career in the area of real estate, condemnation and property tax litigation. She represents individuals, governments and corporate clients in a broad range of litigation using dispute resolution where appropriate.
Ms. Fraser began her eminent domain practice at the Department of Justice in the trial division. Since joining the firm in 2005, her eminent domain practice has included assisting local governments in all phases of the eminent domain process to ensure compliance with the Condemnation Procedures Act and appropriate federal regulations. She also represents individuals and companies in condemnation litigation, assuring they receive just compensation for their property. Ms. Fraser is co-editor of the 2011 American Bar Association publication on Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law.

Matthew R. Hansen Partner at Miller Nash LLP

Mr. Hansen leads Miller Nash’s condemnation/eminent domain team and is a member of the firm’s real estate development department. He has spent his career focusing on all facets of eminent domain law,

from consulting with agency clients early in the design process to pre-litigation negotiations, condemnation litigation, trials, and appeals. As a proven trial attorney, Mr. Hansen has considerable experience representing municipal and private property owner clients in mediations, arbitrations, and in trials, including a substantial number of condemnation jury trials. He has litigated cases throughout Washington State, and has successfully argued cases before the Washington State Court of Appeals. Mr. Hansen has led most cases to settlement before they reach trial, but in those instances where trial became necessary, he and his team have achieved favorable jury verdicts for their clients in some of the region’s largest and most complex valuation disputes. Mr. Hansen is a frequent speaker on legal issues involving eminent domain law and has served as author and editor for several state and national legal treaties on the topic. He is a past president of the Puget Sound Chapter of the International Right of Way Association and has served the Association as chair of its International Ethics Committee.

Mary W. Johnson Attorney
Ms. Johnson is an attorney with Clackamas County. She participates in the Real Estate & Land Use, Family Law and Administrative Law Sections of the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon Academy of Family Law Practitioners. Ms. Johnson handles transactional, trial, appellate and administrative hearing matters and has served as a court-annexed arbitrator since 1994. She has served on the Oregon City Planning Commission and regularly volunteers doing intake for St. Andrew Legal Clinic. Ms. Johnson employs her governmental and big firm experience to deliver highly skilled and personalized attention to her clients. She has been a frequent writer and speaker on a wide range of subjects, including easements, financial elder abuse, neighbor law, civil procedure and evidentiary standards.

Tara O’Hanlon

Partner at Miller Nash LLP

Ms. O’Hanlon represents municipal agencies and property owners in their eminent domain/condemnation acquisitions. She has successfully tried numerous multimillion-dollar cases, including obtaining successful verdicts in several of Washington’s largest eminent domain decisions. Ms. O’Hanlon is regularly asked to present and publishes on eminent domain law and her successful cases. She also counsels clients over the life of their construction or real estate acquisition projects, from drafting and negotiating comprehensive and practical contracts to finding creative solutions for early and efficient resolution of disputes. If litigation cannot be avoided, Ms. O’Hanlon has an extensive and successful track record trying and arbitrating cases and will see a matter through to a final resolution. She represents all segments of the design and construction industry, including owners, general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and design professionals. She negotiates public and private design and construction contracts, including projects with alternative delivery methods, design-build, and integrated project delivery (IPD). Ms. O’Hanlon advises clients on how to avoid claims and disputes and, if needed, helps them navigate arbitrating or litigating payment, delay, defect and warranty claims.

Armand Resto-Spotts, Attorney

Mr. Resto-Spotts is an attorney focusing on land use, real estate, and environmental law.  He represents homeowners, developers, and other municipal and industrial clients in a variety of compliance and permitting issues affecting real property, including local and state land use controls such as critical areas regulations and zoning. Mr. Resto-Spotts also advises and assists clients in drafting and reviewing the wide array of transactional documents affecting the use of real property, such as deeds, easements, covenants, and other real estate contracts.  Additionally, from his prior work advising municipal clients in Washington, he also has extensive experience in public records and open government law.

Kinnon W. Williams  is with Foster Garvey and focuses his practice on assisting clients in eminent domain and municipal law matters. He represents both public entities and private property owners in negotiations, mediation, and bench and jury trials, including successfully arguing cases before the Washington State Supreme Court. In the area of municipal law, Mr. Williams provides special and general legal counsel to local governments, including cities, fire departments and utilities. He offers a comprehensive approach to local governments’ legal needs, whether dealing with a specific legal issue or providing day-to-day counsel. Mr. Williams is a frequent lecturer on eminent domain and inverse condemnation topics for continuing legal education and trade association seminars.

Russ Beitzel is a Senior Utility Analyst in the Telecommunications and Water Division at the Oregon Public Utility Commission, starting with the PUC in 2018. With regard to water, Mr. Beitzel have analyzed and addressed numerous issues including tariff changes, property sales, affiliated interest transactions, revenue requirement calculations, deferred tax calculations, rate spread, and rate design. I have also served as case manager on multiple water rate cases. Additionally, he worked at Ashland, Inc for twenty years as a manufacturing and corporate accountant and global business analyst. His accountant duties included product cost analysis, general ledger account analysis, SOX compliance, and internal and external audit compliance. His analyst duties included budgeting, forecasting, financial statement analysis, acquisition tracking, and division financial support for a global business unit. Mr. Beitzel holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Otterbein University.

Jill D. Goatcher is an Assistant Attorney General at the Oregon Department of Justice.

Ms. Howard works with companies and individuals to navigate complex natural resource and environmental regulations, and to obtain permits and authorizations. She also defends and resolves enforcement and regulatory actions from environmental and natural resources agencies in Oregon. Ms. Howard experience includes water; wetlands; endangered, threatened, and sensitive species; Confined Animal Feeding Operations; fertilizers and pesticides; and public and federal lands.

Ms. Liljefelt is a partner and the managing attorney at Schroeder Law Offices’ Portland, Oregon office. She joined Schroeder Law Offices in 2009 and graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School with an Environmental & Natural Resources certificate. Ms. Liljefelt represents water users in the West, focusing her practice on water rights review, evaluation, due diligence, permitting, transfer, forfeiture and cancellation, water-related real property and public lands issues and disputes, administrative contested cases, and state and federal litigation. She is licensed to practice law in Oregon, California, and Utah. Ms. Liljefelt is the chair of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association’s Water Resources Committee, the former chair of the Oregon State Bar’s Environmental & Natural Resources Section’s executive committee, and serves on the Bar’s Agricultural Law Section executive committee. She enjoys cooking, kayaking, and camping with her family, and competitively races outrigger canoes with the Mountain Home Canoe Club.

Mr. Sanger’s legal and consulting practice focuses on energy, administrative, and public utility law. He represents energy trade associations, municipalities, electric cooperatives, irrigation districts, end-use industrial and commercial consumers, investor owned natural gas and water utilities, and renewable and cogeneration electricity producers. Mr. Sanger advises hydro, biomass, geothermal, wind, solar, cogeneration, and other electricity generators on a wide variety of transactional matters, including negotiating power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, wholesale power sales, resource development and sales, and other matters. He has a lengthy background representing end[1]use industrial, commercial, and irrigation customers in all facets of retail rates and service quality. Mr. Sanger represents clients in energy and utility matters before state and federal courts, state public utility commissions, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Bonneville Power Administration. Mr. Sanger is also an adjunct instructor at Lewis and Clark Law School, and in Portland Community College’s Paralegal Program. Mr. Sanger graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon in 2000 with cum laude honors and an Environmental Law Certificate, and from World College Institute of New College of California in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in the Humanities with an emphasis in International Environmental Studies.

Mr. Sheets is the owner of BRS Legal, LLC, an Ontario-based law firm that focuses on water law, natural resources, and land use law in Oregon and Idaho. He has represented clients with a wide set of issues ranging from municipal water supply concerns to wildlife management policy, and individuals with diverse land use issues in negotiation and litigation roles. Mr. Sheets focuses on water-related legal challenges for agricultural and residential water users across Oregon and has expanded into Idaho in 2020. He is a graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School (2013) with a certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law and served as the Managing Editor of Lewis & Clark Law Review. In his spare time, Mr. Sheets represents a national non-profit Falconry advocacy organization, pro-bono as associate counsel, which compliments his practice as a licensed falconer.

Mr. Tebbutt is primarily an environmental lawyer who assists communities, organizations, tribes, unions and individuals across the United States in protecting themselves and their members from industrial pollution and chemical injury. Through litigation, negotiation, and grassroots campaign building, the firm helps clients enforce our nation’s environmental laws and hold polluters and regulatory agencies accountable. During his career at the Western Environmental Law Center, the Atlantic States Legal Foundation, and in private practice, Mr. Tebbutt has brought citizen suit and toxic tort cases concerning pollution and chemical exposure against dozens of Fortune 500 companies in more than 30 states enforcing a broad spectrum of environmental laws. The firm has experience with many environmental statutes, including the Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act (EPCRA), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Representative cases include actions against coal industry, oil spills, large CAFOs, railroads and improper state and federal rules. The team has won landmark cases against large CAFOs (see CARE and CFS v. Cow Palace), improper government actions (see Nat’l Cotton Council v. U.S. EPA), and the coal industry (see Sierra Club v. BNSF Railway). The team also represents victims of toxic chemical exposure and works on climate change and other cutting edge environmental issues.

Dr. Meyer is a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and he is a fellow and past president (2016, 2019) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying. Dr. Meyer is a past president (2006-2007) of the Geomatics Society of New England (previously known as the New England Section ACSM) and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Surveying Engineering and Surveying and Land Information Science. Dr. Meyer earned his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University (College Station, 1998) where he was a research associate in the Mapping Sciences Laboratory. He was named a UConn Teaching Fellow (2015), and he has taught geomatics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in geodesy, geographic information science, digital terrain modeling, spatial statistics, and global navigation satellite system surveying. Dr. Meyer has authored an undergraduate-level geodesy textbook and numerous peer-reviewed papers about surveying and mapping, and he teaches professional education seminars for surveyors throughout New England and the United States.

Mr. Schutz is a retired building official with the City of Columbus, Ohio. He was previously a senior staff engineer with the International Code Council in product development after several years as their manager of instructors in the ICC Training & Education Department. Mr. Schutz has also served as an assistant architect administrator at the Ohio Board of Building Standards. While with the State of Ohio, he oversaw the new Residential Code of Ohio program, including certification of local residential code departments and personnel. His varied previous experiences include active duty Army and Ohio National Guard experience as a combat engineer officer; building code enforcement for several central Ohio jurisdictions, including ten years as chief building official (CBO) for the City of Powell where he also served as city engineer and director of public services; and chief engineer for the Ohio Department of Health, where Mr. Schutz chaired the state’s plumbing advisory board, was chief of plumbing and was a voting member on the Ohio Board of Building Standards.