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MARGARET
M. WHITE
Senior Vice President
1720 Carey Avenue, 6th Floor
(307) 635-1458
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
CAREER EXPERIENCE:
September 1997
to January 2001:
Chief of Staff
(Special Assistant to the Director)
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
U.S. Department of the Interior
Washington DC
Second ranking
official in agency regulating coal mining;
Oversaw fiscal,
administrative and programmatic operations; 650 employees located
nationwide; oversight and funding responsibilities for 2000 state
employees;
Annual $300
million budget and a $1.4 billion trust fund.
January 1995
to August 1997:
Attorney at
Law
Karpan & White Law Offices, LC
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Private law
practice. Main area of practice was business formation;
Formed dozens
of corporations, close corporations and limited liability companies;
drafted articles of incorporation, bylaws, shareholder agreements,
articles of organization for traditional and "flexible"
limited liability companies and operating agreements;
Presided over
several organizational meetings; developed an organizational meeting
checklist, formed several non-profit corporations, obtained EINs
for clients and Subchapter S tax treatment;
Represented
Laramie County Wyoming as the contract county attorney for all non-criminal
matters;
Engaged in
debt collection and bankruptcy work for a credit union;
Represented
a publicly traded corporation that operated the state's largest
shopping mall, interpreted complex commercial leases in rent recovery
proceedings;
Represented
a special taxing district, organizing it and applying for governmental
grants for a major street renovation;
Served as
the hearing officer for the Wyoming State Board of Nursing;
Represented
workers' compensation claimants before administrative law judges;
Drafted wills,
powers of attorney and living wills;
Founded a
corporate service company that serves as registered agent for 600
Wyoming business entities:
January 1987 to December 1994:
Deputy Secretary
of State (Deputy Lieutenant Governor)
State of Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Second ranking
official in second-ranking office of Wyoming State government;
Supervised
subordinate directors and oversaw an operation of 22 employees,
a $1.6 million biennial budget and which generated $10 million in
biennial revenue.
The Secretary
and I successfully proposed new business laws including a new Wyoming
Business Corporation Act, a new Close Corporation Supplement and
innovative amendments to the Wyoming Limited Liability Company law.
(Wyoming was the first state to adopt a Limited Liability Company
Law.)
October 1985
to December 1986:
Human Services
Administrator
Special Assistant Attorney General
State Board of Charities and Reform
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Oversaw operations
of Wyoming's six non-penal state institutions; these institutions
employed 900 with a combined biennial budget of $75 million.
February 1983
to September 1985:
Assistant
Attorney General
Wyoming Attorney General's Office
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Represented
the Department of Health and Social Services and the Board of Medical
Examiners;
Represented
the State in appellate arguments before the Wyoming Supreme Court;
Co-counsel
in two contested cases resulting in the successful revocation of
two physician licenses;
Handled a
$1,000,000 Medicaid appeal before the Federal Department of Health
and Human Services Board of Appeals;
EDUCATION
AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
1978: Bachelor
of Arts, Philosophy, University of Wyoming
1982: Juris Doctorate, University of Wyoming
1982: Member, Wyoming State Bar
1990: Author, The Wyoming Business Corporation Act and Close
Corporation Supplement, XXV Land and Water Law Review
"BV"
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