Amy Rue

Executive Director

Amy Rue is the Executive Director of the Montana Meth Project. In that role, Amy directs the Project's fundraising initiatives and works with the Board of Directors to manage media, community awareness, public relations, and public policy programs. Amy joined the Montana Meth Project in early 2009 and has successfully expanded the support that the Montana Meth Project receives from individual donors, corporations, and charitable foundations. She has also directed several of the Project's major community outreach and public education initiatives. Rue has more than 25 years of management and fundraising experience.

Prior to joining the Montana Meth Project she was the principal fundraiser for the Tom Ridge Pavilion in Pennsylvania to honor Ridge's appointment as the nation's first Homeland Security Secretary. She has served as Director of Alumni Relations at Blair Academy, as well as serving as a member of the Board of Governors for eight years under Chairman Jack Bogle of The Vanguard Group. She has coordinated sponsorship and marketing activities at several of the world's most prestigious sporting events, including The Masters, The Mercedes Benz Cup and The U.S. Open. Amy lives in Missoula.

Mike Gulledge

Chairman

Michael Gulledge is publisher of the Billings Gazette in Billings, Montana, and also serves as a Publishing Vice President for Lee Enterprises, Inc., overseeing Lee newspapers in Butte, Helena, and Missoula Montana, Casper, Wyoming, Twin Falls, Idaho, Elko, Nevada, Albany and Corvallis, Oregon, Longview, Washington, Provo, Utah, Santa Maria, Napa and Hanford California, and Glens Falls and Auburn New York and Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

He joined Lee in 1983 as a college intern at The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale while earning a degree in journalism and advertising at Southern Illinois University. He was appointed advertising manager at The Southern in 1988 and in 1990 became advertising manager of the Herald & Review in Decatur, Illinois. In 1992 he became the advertising manager of the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa. He returned to Decatur in 1997 as general manager, becoming publisher in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed publisher of the Billings Gazette. In February 2002, he received group leadership responsibilities. In May 2005 he was named a Publishing Vice President. He currently is the Chair of the Board for the Billings Chamber of Commerce as well as his duties as Chairman of the Board for the Montana Meth Project. In April 2009, Mike was honored by the Billings Clinic receiving the "Friends of Billings" award.

Lisa Downs Bullock

Board of Directors

Lisa Downs Bullock was born in Helena, Montana, and is the oldest of six children. She attended Helena public schools and earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Carroll College in Helena and began working on her master's degree in applied mathematics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She has worked for IBM, Northrop Grumman, MAXIMUS and has taught high school mathematics. Currently she is an IT project manager for CourtViewJustice Solutions, a company that engineers, installs and supports justice information and process management systems.

Mrs. Bullock serves on the Board of the Lewis & Clark County Community Foundation, an organization that provides financial support to charitable projects in the greater Helena area.

The Bullock's have three children: Caroline, 11; Alexandria, 9; and Cameron, 7. In her free time, Mrs. Bullock enjoys volunteering at her children's elementary school and coaching her son's basketball team, as well as skiing, hiking and playing basketball.

Greg Lane

Board of Directors

Greg Lane is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity National Timber Resources, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial, which focuses on real estate investment and development, primarily in the Northwest United States.

From 1997-2005, he served as the Executive Vice President- Mergers & Acquisitions for Fidelity National Financial Inc. During Greg's tenure, Fidelity acquired over 250 companies and grew from approximately $700 million in revenue to over $12 billion in revenue, and was eventually split into two Fortune 500 companies. Fidelity has consistently been named by Forbes as one of America's "Best Big Companies" and by Fortune as one of "America's Most Admired Companies."

Prior to joining Fidelity, Greg was a lawyer with the prestigious firms of Latham & Watkins in Southern California and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr in Washington, D.C., specializing in complex securities matters and mergers & acquisitions.

Greg is also actively engaged in a wide variety of private business ventures with William P. Foley, II, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity.

John W. Parker

Board of Directors

John W. Parker is Cascade County Attorney.

As Cascade County Attorney in Great Falls, John Parker brings intricate knowledge of Montana's criminal justice system to the Meth Project. He served three terms in the Montana House of Representatives, including posts as House minority leader and chairman of the Law and Justice Interim Committee. He helped pass legislation that increased penalties for Meth lab operators and established a jurisdictional basis for drug treatment courts.

Parker has won numerous trial convictions including operation of an unlawful clandestine methamphetamine laboratory, meth possession, in addition to winning convictions for a wide array of felony offenses. He supervises a team of 12 attorneys and 10 support staff.

In addition to his work on meth and other drug-related legislation, Parker helped pass legislation which expanded the definition of child pornography in order to protect more children from sexual predators, and creating the criminal offenses of money laundering and vehicular homicide while under the influence.

John Parker earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Montana.

Major General (ret) John F. (Gene) Prendergast

Board of Directors

Gene Prendergast is Major General (retired) of the Montana National Guard.

Under his leadership, the Guard became very active in school anti-drug programs, with Guard/Reserve personnel visiting schools to educate students about the dangers of drugs. In addition, Gen. Prendergast helped create The Challenge Program at UM-Western, an alternative education program for at-risk youth.

Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1967, General Prendergast progressed through the ranks, serving as Deputy Commandant of the Montana Military Academy. In 1990, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Montana Army National Guard.

In addition to his military and defense-related honors, Gen. Prendergast has a Bachelor's degree from the University of the State of New York - Western Montana College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Carroll College.

Barbara Ranf

Board of Directors

Barbara Ranf is Executive Director of State Government Affairs for BNSF Railway Company for Montana and Idaho.

Prior to joining BNSF, Barbara worked with the Montana Chamber of Commerce as Government Relations Director. She served under Governor Judy Martz as Director of the Montana Department of Administration and Ex-Officio State Treasurer in 2001 and then as Chief of Staff through 2004.

Barbara spent 20 years with Qwest Communications (formerly USWEST/Mountain Bell) in Montana in various management positions which included public relations and government affairs responsibilities. Other prior work experience included the Montana Office of Public Instruction, Kansas Geological Survey and the Kansas University Affiliated Facility/Bureau of Child Research.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a Master of Science in Journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.