Delaware SWCD - Board of Supervisors & Staff


Board of Supervisors & Staff

Conservation * Development * Self-Government

District Board

Supervisors are respected conservation leaders elected by county residents to represent them in directing soil and water conservation and natural resources management in Delaware County. Board members are elected to a three-year term as public officials and serve without pay. Elections occur at the Annual Meeting.

Delaware SWCD Board of Supervisors

Pictured (from L to R) Steve Sheets, Mary Fleming, Sue Cunningham, Ted Colflesh, & Jim Sherman

Mary Fleming Chairperson		Mary is a RN and serves as Agricultural Health Coordinator at Grady Memorial Hospital. Mary, her husband Bob, and four children own and operate Ideal Jersey Farm in Brown Township. Farm conservation practices include crop rotation, grassed waterways, no-tillage and an animal waste storage facility and management system. Mary has served as a SWCD Supervisor since 1998.

Sue Cunningham Vice-Chair		Sue, husband Phil, and daughter, Trish, are partners in Scioto Farms and Troyton Grain Inc. They are currently utilizing conservation tillage, grassed waterways, subsurface and surface drainage, and a complete manure management plan. Sue teaches nutrition at Marion Technical College. She serves on the Delaware County Farm Bureau Board and the Ohio Pork Council Women.

Ted Colflesh Secretary/Fiscal Agent		Ted is a partner with JELAWR Family Farms in Brown Township. He has two children. Practicing soil conservation and systematic tile drainage, they produce corn, soybeans and wheat with conventional and reduced tillage systems. They also have a hog operation. Ted has served as a SWCD Supervisor since 1987.

Steven L. Sheets Member		Steve and his wife Linda own and operate Sheets Farms, a 1500 acre grain and feeder cattle operation in Kingston Township. Steve has used no-tillage and subsurface drainage to enhance his conservation farming operation. Steve has served as a SWCD Supervisor since 1991

Jim Sherman Member		.Jim Sherman, his wife Denise, and two sons own and operate a corn, soybean, and wheat grain farm in Porter Township. No-tillage, grassed waterways, and systematic subsurface drainage are part of Jim's conservation plan. Jim is also a U.S. Postal Service Rural Route Carrier. Jim has served as a Delaware SWCD Supervisor since 1985.

Delaware SWCD & NRCS Staff

	email address is username (as below) (at) delawareswcd.org
	Bret Bacon email username: bret-bacon Resource Conservation Program Assistant		Liz Mather, GISP email username: liz-mather GIS/IT Program Coordinator
	Kris Bruestle email username: kris-bruestle Upper Big Walnut Creek Watershed Coordinator		Ed Miller email username: ed-miller Streams & Watersheds Specialist Upper Scioto River Watershed Coordinator
	Marie Heter email username: marie-heter Receptionist		Mark Moseley email username: mark-moseley Resource Conservationist II
	Susan Kuba email username: susan-kuba Accounts Clerk		Larry Starling email username: larry-starling Drainage Maintenance Technician
	Dona Rhea email username: dona-rhea Conservation Educator		Scott Stephens email username: scott-stephens Natural Resource Conservation Program Supervisor
	Milt Link email username: milt-link Drainage Maintenance/Urban Program Supervisor		Larry Ufferman email username: larry-ufferman SWCD Administrator


	Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Staff
email address is username (as below) (at) oh.usda.gov

	Tom Edwards email username: tom.edwards District Conservationist

since 10/14/05

Last Update: Friday March 14, 2008