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Board Chairman
 Susan Stuart received her JD from Indiana University and practiced law for eleven years in Indianapolis after a three year clerkship with the Indiana Court of Appeals. Her practice focused on education, labor and employment law, but also included commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters. She left practice in 1996 to join the faculty at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and joined the Valparaiso University School of Law faculty on a full-time basis in Fall, 2001. She is now a tenured professor at VU Law and teaches Legal Writing, Education Law, Trusts and Estates and Insurance Law. Professor Stuart received her undergraduate degree from DePauw University and her Masters in Education from Valparaiso University.
Contact Email: susan.stuart@valpo.edu
Legal/Program Committee Chair
 Jeremy Telman is a Professor of Law at the Valparaiso University School of Law where he teaches contracts, business associations and public international law. Before coming to Valparaiso in 2004, Professor Telman taught public international law at Brown University and practiced commercial litigation in the New York office of Sidley Austin LLP, where he also administered and participated in the firm’s pro bono asylum program. Prior to that, he clerked for Judge Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Miami, Florida. Jeremy earned a J.D. from New York University in 1999 and Ph.D. in European History from Cornell University in 1993.
Contact Email: jeremy.telman@valpo.edu
Secretary/Treasurer
 Ann Kenis is an attorney who began practicing law in 1981. She works as an arbitrator, specializing in resolving labor and employment disputes throughout the country. She has lived in northwest Indiana since 1988. Her travels and her experience with so many industries brought into sharp focus the energy and environmental issues facing us today. In 2006, she initiated the Energy Task Force in Valparaiso, Indiana, based on the belief that energy resource conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources are critical tools in planning for our future. She now chairs the Energy Committee for the city of Valparaiso, and has ongoing responsibility to develop energy strategies at the local level.
Fundraising Committee Chair
Nancy Satterlee received her degree in nursing from Purdue North Central in 1979 and worked as Head Operating Room Nurse at Porter County Community Hospital during the 1980's. She also opened Lifestyles Gallery, in 1983 which is now one of Indiana's premier specialty gift shops and art galleries. Nancy has been an environmental activist for decades and is an active member of the Valparaiso Chain of Lakes Watershed Group.
Contact Email: satterlee.nan@gmail.com
Board Member
 Paul Brietzke received his JD from University of Wisconsin Law School and was admitted to practice by State Bar of Wisconsin in 1969. He received his PhD. in Law from University of London in 1979. He is a tenured professor at Valparaiso University School of Law where he teaches courses in Law and Economics, International Human Rights, Antitrust, Contracts and Globalization. He was Fulbright professor in Vietnam in 1998 and served as Chief Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Justice, Jakarta, Indonesia from January 1999 to August 2000 where he helped to draft and implement anti-corruption, administrative, arbitration, bankruptcy, competition policy (antitrust, including the establishment of the Commission,) corporations and corporate governance, judicial, letter of credit/warehouse receipt, rural land tenure, secured transactions, small business, WTO compliance, and legal reforms. Professor Brietzke also ran a small ($800,000/year), AID-funded Economic Law and Improved Procurement Systems Project.
Contact Email: paul.brietzke@valpo.edu
Board Member
Dr. John Crayton graduated from Oberlin College (1961) and the University of Rochester Medical School (1966). He was a research neurophysiologist at the University of London Laboratory of Psychoneuroendocrinology (1964-65) and at the National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Neuropharmacology (1966-70). After his residency in psychiatry at The University of Chicago, he has held academic research appointments at The University of Chicago and Loyola Medical School. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Loyola Medical School. Over the past 25 years he has had a strong research interest in the effects of the environment on human functioning with a special focus on brain function. The author of over 80 scientific publications, he has been a grant awardee of the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration, and numerous foundations and private sponsors. He has extensive experience in the statistical analysis of large data sets. He is also an avid amateur botanist and birder.
Contact Email: johncrayton@earthlink.net
Board Member
 Paul Kohlhoff is an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Tax Clinic at Valparaiso University School of Law where he teaches taxation, IRS Practice and Procedure, Estate Planning, Conservation Easements and Charitable Gift Planning. Before coming to Valparaiso Law School, Professor Kohlhoff operated his own law practice concentrating in the areas of taxation, estate planning, business law and real estate. He developed a professional interest in the legal issues affecting non-profit land conservation organizations, and held management positions in 2 such organizations. Prior to this, Professor Kohlhoff practiced as a Trial Attorney for the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service. He began his legal career as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Alfred J. Pivarnik, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court after earning his J.D. from the Valparaiso University School of Law in 1986.
Contact Email: Paul.Kohlhoff@valpo.edu
Board Member
 Dr. Szarleta-Yancy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Northwest. She earned a Ph.D. in agricultural and natural resource economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. from the University of Iowa. She currently teaches classes in environmental law and policy as well as in the area of public management economics. The research and service includes work in the areas of public participation in environmental decision-making processes, effective public notification of water quality impairments, and watershed planning for sustainable development. She is actively involved in a number of local environmental organizations that work on issues related to the quality of life of Northwest Indiana residents and those living in the Great Lakes Basin.
Contact Email: eszarlet@iun.edu
Board Member
 Walt Breitinger began his career as an environmental activist while studying biology at Valparaiso University in the mid 1960’s. While “thinking globally,” Breitinger began to “act locally” by playing a key role in Eco-Vote and Save the Dunes Council in the 1970’s; Duneland Recycling and People Against Hazardous Landfill Sites in the 1980’s; Duneland Sierra Club, Shirley Heinz Environmental Fund and Lakes Area Concerned Citizens in the 1990’s and by inspiring youth environmentalism through coaching Valparaiso Science Olympiad teams and the Earth Awareness Club. Nationally known for his demonstrations of alternative fuels, Breitinger now serves on the board of the South Shore Clean Cities Program. His family’s environmental lifestyle has been featured in multiple news articles and inspired many to reduce consumption and pollution while increasing their commitment to health, education, and the environment. In 2003, Breitinger received the Indiana DNR Honorable Mention for Conservationist of the Year and in ’04 and ’06 the South Shore Clean Cities Alternative Fuel Champion Award. Breitinger has served as president of the Valparaiso Chain of Lakes Watershed Group, Inc. for the past 10 years and as a founding member of the Friends of Silver Lake. He currently sits on the board of the Mayor’s Pathway Committee, the Energy Task Force, Woodland Savanna Land Conservancy, the Advisory Board of the Shirley Heinz Environmental Land Trust, serves as board member and V.P. of the Porter County Recycling and Waste Reduction District, is an active member of the Indiana Lakes Management Society and newly appointed council member of Hoosier Environmental Council. Breitinger’s national and international activities include rainforest preservation in Central America and lobbying for energy conservation initiatives. Breitinger’s work-day occupation focuses on brokering, teaching and speculating in currencies, grains, metals, and other natural resources as Vice President of Commodity Investments for a major brokerage firm. He lives with his highly supportive & tolerant wife, Cynthia, and has raised three sons in a non-air-conditioned historic home in downtown Valparaiso.
Contact email: breitin@verizon.net
Board Member
 Chase Molchin is a third-year law student at Valparaiso University School of Law and recently elected President of the Valparaiso Environmental Law Society (VELS). As VELS President, he serves as the law student representative on LEAF's Board of Directors for a one yar term. Chase has a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Eastern Illinois University, and an MBA from Valparaiso University. His interest in environmental law stems from his love of outdoor activities such as cycling, camping, hiking and scuba diving which has made him appreciate the importance of preserving clean air and water for future generations.
Contact Email: chase.molchin@valpo.edu 
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