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William D. Ruckelshaus is currently a Strategic Director in the Madrona Venture Group and a principal in Madrona Investment Group, L.L.C. (MIG), a Seattle based investment company. He began his law career in Indiana and served as Deputy Attorney General of Indiana and as member and majority leader of the Indiana House of Representatives. In 1969 and 1970, President Nixon appointed him as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division for the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Ruckelshaus became the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first Administrator when the agency was formed in 1970. In 1973 he was appointed acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and in the same year was named Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Ruckelshaus was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the fifth EPA Administrator in 1983 and continued through 1985. Currently, Mr. Ruckelshaus serves as a director of TVW, Isilon Systems, Inc, and has participated on several boards of directors including Cummins Engine Company, Pharmacia Corporation, Solutia, Inc., Weyerhaeuser Company, and World Resources Institute. He is Chairman of the Board of Meridian Institute. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of The William D. Ruckelshaus Center, a collaborative problem solving institution at the University of Washington and Washington State University. Mr. Ruckelshaus graduated from Princeton University and Harvard University Law School. Before joining the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, he was a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy.
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