Bridgett Luther

As former Director of the Department of Conservation, Bridgett Luther oversaw a budget of $1.3 billion for a wide range of programs including land resource protection, beverage container recycling, geologival survey, mine reclamation, and oversight for oil, gas, and geothermal production. Prior to her work at the Department of Conservation, she was the national development director for REP America (Republicans for Environmental Protection), which supports pro-environment Republicans. She helped create the first recycling program in the history of North Carolina's Mechlenburg County, led campaigns to create neighborhood parks and acquire land to protect the region's water quality, and founded the Carolinas office of the Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization.