George R. Nethercutt, Jr.
Research and Development
Hecla mining company
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Biography
George R. Nethercutt, Jr., has been a director since February 2005. Mr. Nethercutt has served as Principal of Nethercutt Consulting LLC (a strategic planning and consulting firm) since January 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Nethercutt was a principal of Lundquist, Nethercutt & Griles, LLC (a strategic planning and consulting firm) from February 2005 to January 2007. Mr. Nethercutt has also been a board member of the Washington Policy Center (a premiere public policy organization providing high quality analyses on issues relating to the free market and government regulation) since January 2005. In September 2010, Mr. Nethercutt was appointed Of Counsel with the law firm of Lee & Hayes PLLC. Mr. Nethercutt serves as a board member of ARCADIS Corporation (an international company providing consultancy, engineering and management services), the Board of Chancellors for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (a charity and advocate of juvenile diabetes research worldwide), and served as U.S. Chairman of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense – U.S./Canada from April 2005 to December 2009. He is founder and Chairman of The George Nethercutt Foundation (a charitable nonprofit educational foundation) formed in February 2007. From 1995 to 2005, Mr. Nethercutt served in the U.S. House of Representatives, including House Appropriations subcommittees on Interior, Agriculture and Defense and the Science Committees subcommittee on Energy. He has been a member of the Washington State Bar Association since 1972.
Research Interest
Geology
