Camile Bibles

Camille D. Bibles serves as a U.S. Magistrate Judge and as the only federal judge located in Northern Arizona. She took the bench in 2019 after a career successfully litigating in state, federal and international courts.

Camille has a Zoology degree from the College of Idaho and a law degree from the College of William and Mary. She began her career in the Coconino County Attorney’s Office. Her science background contributed to her being the first prosecutor in Arizona, and one of the first in the United States, to present DNA evidence to a jury. In 1998, Camille became a member of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona. In 2002, she took a position in at the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) for the former Yugoslavia as a war crimes prosecutor. As part of her work she prosecuted Slobodan Milosevic, indicted the heads of his secret police and led the work for a plea and cooperation of a high level insider. Returning to the US Attorney’s Office in Arizona in 2004, Camille focused on prosecuting hostage-taking cases in Phoenix before moving to the Flagstaff U.S. Attorney’s Office.  Camille returned to ICTY in 2012 and was a Senior Trial Attorney in the prosecution of General Ratko Mladic for his offenses in Bosnia. In 2015 she came home to Flagstaff.

Stephen Brown

Stephen W. Brown is the Emeritus Edward M. Carson Chair and Professor of Marketing at Arizona State University. He also served for over 25 years as the Founder and Director of ASU’s globally renowned Center for Services Leadership. He is the co-author or co-editor of 22 books and over 150 articles. Engaged with businesses throughout his career, Stephen is a Strategic Partner with The Insight Group, a global consulting organization, and he has worked with corporations including IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Salesforce.com and many small companies. He’s also been involved in launching eight start-ups. He’s served in leadership roles with many non-profit boards, including being President of the 50,000 member American Marketing Association. Stephen and his spouse feel blessed to have the best of two worlds, having their primary residence in the Phoenix area and living in Flagstaff, Arizona during much of the summer.

W. David Connell

David Connell is a retired Chief Fiduciary Officer for the West Region of The Northern Trust Company. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Community Foundation and The Phoenix Symphony, and is a former trustee of the Heard Museum. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Northern Arizona and President of the Museum of Northern Arizona Endowment Foundation. David is a graduate of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. David was the founding Chair of the Lowell Observatory Foundation and served in that role for five years.

David Chase

David is the Managing Member of CS Group, LLC, a private investment company. Formerly he was the Managing Member of Vestor Partners, LP, a private equity fund. He is a Trustee of Thornburg Investment Trust, which oversees the Thornburg Mutual Funds. Prior to entering the private equity business, Mr. Chase was a professor of finance at Northern Arizona University. For many years, the family operated cattle ranches in central and northern Arizona. Currently he serves various community and charitable organizations including the Santa Fe Conservation Trust, the Museum of Northern Arizona, Lowell Observatory, and the BF Foundation. He holds degrees from Principia College, The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, and Arizona State University. He and his wife Katherin live in Santa Fe, NM.

Ginger Giovale

Ginger Giovale has served on many boards over the years including W.L. Gore and Assocs., Inc., Westminster College in Salt Lake City, The Nature Conservancy, and the Arizona Community Foundation. Her interests are in the areas of education, science and conservation of natural habitats. Family and philanthropy are her major projects these days.

Marjorie McClanahan, Chair

Marjorie McClanahan is a retired CPA and longtime resident of Flagstaff. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Vanderbilt University and was a high school English teacher before moving to Flagstaff in 1967. She studied accounting at NAU and received her CPA certificate in 1990. Her areas of expertise were individual taxation, estates, and trusts.

Marj has chaired many non-profit boards including Flagstaff Community Foundation, Northern Arizona Healthcare, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. She has received many awards for her community service including the Chamber of Commerce’s Athena Award, Flagstaff Citizen of the Year, and Arizona Society of CPAs Arizona Public Service Award.

Marj’s husband is Sam, retired emeritus professor of Education at NAU. Together they enjoy giving back to the Flagstaff community.

George Putnam

George Putnam is President of New Generation Advisors, LLC, a registered investment adviser that manages portfolios of distressed securities for sophisticated investors. He is also Chairman of New Generation Research, Inc., which publishes information about bankruptcies and troubled companies. He founded both companies in the late 1980’s. Prior to founding the New Generation companies, he was an attorney with Dechert LLP in Philadelphia.

In addition, George is a trustee of the funds in the Putnam Group of mutual funds. He is also a director and part-owner of the Boston Family Office, a multi-family investment office. He is a current director of the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute and Class Achieving Change Together (ClassACT), and he is a past trustee or director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, the Epiphany School in Dorchester, MA, Massachusetts Audubon Society, St. Mark’s School, Shore Country Day School and the Sea Education Association. He remains on the investment committees of several of those organizations.

W. Lowell Putnam

W. Lowell Putnam IV is the great-grandnephew of Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory’s founder. Putnam was actively involved in the development of early-generation television traffic systems and held senior software development and business analyst positions, including Director of Systems Development for Springfield Television Corporation. He has served on various media industry boards and committees. In 1984 he founded VCI Solutions, a company that provided sales, traffic, and automation software solutions for the broadcast and cable industry. He sold the company in 2010.

Donna Weistrop

Donna Weistrop is Professor Emerita of Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a member of the Advisory Council of Northern Arizona University’s Martin-Springer Institute and of the Executive Committee of the Lowell Observatory Advisory Board. Donna holds a PhD in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. She has taught astronomy at the introductory, intermediate, and graduate levels, as well as supervised master’s and Ph.D. students. She has chaired and been a member of several NSF and NASA review panels and was on a team that built an instrument for the Hubble Space Telescope. She is an Adjunct Faculty member at Northern Arizona University, a Research Associate at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and a former Adjunct Astronomer at Lowell Observatory.