{"id":28,"date":"2018-12-02T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T03:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-03-26T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:12:55","slug":"leadership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"LEADERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>BOARD OF DIRECTORS<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h5><strong>OFFICERS<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nFrancois Castaing, Chairman Emeritus (deceased);\r\nGail Alpert, Chairman, President\r\nTammy Damrath, Vice Chairman; Vice President\r\nTom Stephens, Vice Chairman\r\nFred Hubacker, Vice President, Treasurer\r\nChris Ballard, Secretary\r\n<h5><strong>BOARD MEMBERS<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nSteve Ambrose, DTE Energy\r\nCarlene Bills, Ford Motor Company\r\nHaley Hart, University of Michigan, MEZ\r\nTom Lang, Telday Communications\r\nWendy Ljungren, Anzen Unmanned\r\nJim <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Lyijynen&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:15233,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:2,&quot;11&quot;:0,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Calibri, sans-serif&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">Lyijynen, Stellantis<\/span>\r\nPat Major, Major Distributing\r\nKimberly Muller, Lake Superior State University\r\nLisa Savage, Aptiv\r\nTrista Schieffer, General Motors\r\nKim <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Schumaker&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:15233,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:2,&quot;11&quot;:0,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Calibri, sans-serif&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">Schumaker, Kettering University\r\nJeff Simek, RCO Engineering<\/span>\r\nDon Ufford, Retired, Formerly of Ford Motor Company\r\nLeeRoy Wells Jr., Consumers Energy\r\nJim Zondag, Stellantis<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span>\r\n<h5><strong>PROGRAM DIRECTORS<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nGail Alpert, <strong><em>FIRST<\/em><\/strong> Robotics Competition (High School)\r\nTammy Damrath, <strong><em>FIRST<\/em><\/strong> Tech Challenge (Middle School)\r\nAngela Hite, <strong><em>FIRST<\/em><\/strong> LEGO League-Challenge (Upper Elementary)\r\nAngela Hite, <strong><em>FIRST<\/em><\/strong> LEGO League-Explore (Lower Elementary)\r\nHeidi Ferguson, <strong><em>FIRST<\/em><\/strong> LEGO League-Discover (Preschool)\r\n<h5><strong>STAFF<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nHeidi Ferguson, <strong><em>FIRST<\/em><\/strong> Mentor Recruiter\r\n\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Francois Castaing, Chairman Emeritus (deceased); Gail Alpert, Chairman, President Tammy Damrath, Vice Chairman; Vice President Tom Stephens, Vice Chairman Fred Hubacker, Vice President, Treasurer Chris Ballard, Secretary BOARD MEMBERS Steve Ambrose, DTE Energy Carlene Bills, Ford Motor Company Haley Hart, University of Michigan, MEZ Tom Lang, Telday Communications Wendy Ljungren, Anzen Unmanned Jim Lyijynen, Stellantis Pat Major, Major Distributing Kimberly Muller, Lake Superior State University Lisa Savage, Aptiv Trista Schieffer, General Motors Kim Schumaker, Kettering University Jeff Simek, RCO Engineering Don Ufford, Retired, Formerly of Ford Motor Company LeeRoy Wells Jr., Consumers Energy Jim Zondag, Stellantis. PROGRAM DIRECTORS Gail Alpert, FIRST<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/leadership\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-klaw-webmastergmail-com","post-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstinmichigan.us\/FIM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}