Thomas W. Renwand is the Chairman and Chief Judge of the Environmental Hearing Board. He is the only judge on the Board based in Western Pennsylvania. He grew up in Niles, Ohio and received his B.A. in History from John Carroll University in 1977. In 1980, he graduated from the University of Akron School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. Tom began his legal career in Erie with Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett, P.C. He is a member of the Allegheny County, and Pennsylvania Bar Associations and the St. Thomas More Society. At the time of his appointment to the Environmental Hearing Board in May 1995 by Governor Tom Ridge, he was a litigation partner with the Pittsburgh law firm of Meyer, Unkovic & Scott. He was reappointed to the Board by Governor Schweiker in June 2002. Governor Rendell nominated him to a third term on the Board in August 2009 and he was confirmed by the Senate in October 2009. Governor Rendell appointed him Acting Chairman in April 2007 and Chairman & Chief Judge in October 2009. He resides with his wife, Sandra, in Upper St. Clair.

Michael L. Krancer was nominated to serve on the Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) by Governor Tom Ridge in October 1999. The Senate of Pennsylvania unanimously confirmed the nomination and Judge Krancer took the oath of office in November 1999. Judge Krancer was named by Governor Rendell as Chief Judge and Chairman of the EHB in February 2003. He was re-nominated for a second term by the Governor in October 2005 and the Senate confirmed the nomination in early 2006. Judge Krancer stepped down from the Board in April 2007 to devote full time to his campaign for Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He was Assistant General Counsel for the Exelon Corporation from June 2008 through October 2009. Judge Krancer was nominated by Governor Rendell to continue service as a Judge in August 2009 and was confirmed by the Senate in October 2009.

Prior to becoming a judge, Judge Krancer was a litigation partner at the Dilworth Paxson and Blank Rome firms in Philadelphia. He graduated, with distinction, in 1980 from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics and in 1983 from the Washington and Lee University School of Law where he was first in his class and was elected to Order of the Coif. He served as a writer and an editor on the school’s Law Review. He was also a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph S. Lord, III, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, while in law school.

Judge Krancer is a life-long resident of Montgomery County where he attended public schools. He graduated from Harriton High School. He lives in Bryn Mawr with his wife, Barbara, and children David, Bayard, Christine and Brooke.

Bernard A. Labuskes, Jr. was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in 1979 and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1982. He was Senior Comments Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He was a law clerk to Honorable Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, from 1982 to 1983. He served as Assistant Counsel at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources from 1985 through 1987, where he focused on litigation and enforcement matters. Prior to his appointment to the Board, he was a partner and chair of the Environmental Practice Group of McNees, Wallace & Nurick in Harrisburg. He was appointed to the Environmental Hearing Board by Governor Ridge in November 1998 and became a member of the Board in January 1999. He lives with his wife and two children in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

Michelle A. Coleman a native of Philadelphia, received a B.A. in political science from Bryn Mawr College in 1977. She then attended New York University School of Law as a Root-Tilden Scholar and received her J.D. in 1980. As a member of the Root-Tilden Program, she traveled in the U.S. and was permitted to practice on the Navajo Reservation. She served with the N.Y. Legal Aid Society as a public defender and with Community Legal Services representing the poor. After approximately 2 years in private practice, she accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources and presented cases before the Environmental Hearing Board as well as Commonwealth and Federal Courts. Appointed to the Environmental Hearing Board in 1995 by Governor Ridge and reappointed in 2002 by Governor Schweiker, she has served as a Judge hearing cases and writing opinions in all aspects of environmental law throughout the state.

In 1995, prior to the appointment to the Board, Michelle and husband Carlton Clark became the proud adoptive parents of a baby boy. Within 18 months the family grew by the addition of two more boys a little girl. Later another little girl was added to the family.

The joys of parenting were tempered by the fact that all of the children had special needs. Consequently, Michelle has learned both sides of Special Education. She has successfully obtained positive education programs for all of the children and has assisted other families to do the same.

At present she is active in legal support groups for parents of children with special needs. Michelle teaches classes in which special need children are involved participants and has written plans to assist these children to continue to thrive in main-stream classes.

Richard P. Mather, Sr. was nominated to serve as a Judge on the Environmental Hearing Board by Governor Edward G. Rendell in August 2009. The Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination and Judge Mather took the oath of office in October 2009. Prior to becoming a Judge, Judge Mather was the Deputy Chief Counsel for the Department of Environmental Protection. He worked for the Department of Environmental Protection and its predecessor, the Department of Environmental Resources for twenty-five years. For eighteen years during this period, he was the head of the Bureau of Regulatory Counsel.

Judge Mather is a 1977 graduate of Lock Haven University. He received his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. He was Business Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. From 1982 until 1984, he was an associate with the law firm of Thorp, Reed and Armstrong in its Pittsburgh offices.

Judge Mather was born in Ashland, Pennsylvania and he was raised in Williamsport and Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Lock Haven High School in 1972. He is a life-long resident of Pennsylvania and he currently resides in Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania with his wife, Mary Jo and three sons, Ricky, Jonathan and Jeffrey.

Maryanne Wesdock, Esquire holds a B.A. in Economics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated as valedictorian, and received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She is the Acting Secretary of the Environmental Hearing Board and Senior Assistant Counsel to Chairman and Chief Judge Thomas W. Renwand. Ms. Wesdock also serves as the Board's liaison to the Environmental Hearing Board Procedural Rules Committee. Prior to joining the Board, she served as Assistant Corporate Counsel to Hanover Foods, Inc. Ms. Wesdock is a past Chair of both the PBA Environment and Energy Law Section and the Allegheny County Bar Association Environmental Law Section. In 2006, she was the recipient of the PBA Environment and Energy Law Section’s Environmental Achievement Award.

Jill S. Wolfe, Esquire received her B.A. in Sociology from Gettysburg College in 2001. In 2005, she received her J.D. from Widener University School of Law, Harrisburg Campus. While at Widener, she was a senior staff member of the Widener Law Journal and wrote the published article entitled Nixon v. Commonwealth: Providing Protection to the Elderly and Disabled by Conducting Criminal Background Checks on their Caretakers, 14 WIDENER L.J. 679 (2005). After graduating, she engaged in private practice in Hanover, Pennsylvania at Mooney & Associates where she practiced as a family law attorney in York and Adams counties. She accepted a position with the Environmental Hearing Board in 2006 as Assistant Counsel to Chief Judge Michael L. Krancer and is currently Assistant Counsel to Judge Michelle A. Coleman. She currently resides in East Berlin, Pennsylvania with her husband Adam.

Frank Tamulonis, Esquire graduated summa cum laude from Dickinson College, where he received a B.A. in environmental studies and political science and was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2008, he received his J.D. from the Pennsylvania State Dickinson School of Law where he was research editor of the Penn State Law Review and a member of the Woolsack Honor Society. Mr. Tamulonis wrote and published an article entitled Splitting the Ninth Circuit: An Administrative Necessity or Environmental Gerrymandering? 112 PENN ST. L. REV. 859-883 (2008). Mr. Tamulonis also received his Masters of Public Administration (MPA) from Penn State University in 2009. Prior joining the Board, Mr. Tamulonis was a litigation associate at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia, PA, where he focused on labor and employment, product liability, and white collar law.

Howard J. Wein, is a shareholder with Klett Lieber Rooney & Schorling in Pittsburgh where he heads the Environmental Law Practice Group. Before joining the firm, Mr. Wein served as Assistant Attorney General and later Assistant Counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources. Mr. Wein's environmental practice has focused on important water quality, waste management, mining and air quality matters at both the state and federal levels. Mr. Wein has also successfully resolved matters with the DER and the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("USEPA") in a wide variety of complex environmental problems by negotiating consent agreements with DER and USEPA. Recently, Mr. Wein has assisted clients both within and outside of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania respecting Reasonably Available Control Technology ("RACT") submittals and agreements, as well as Title V Permitting under the Federal Clean Air Act, the Pennsylvania's Air Pollution Control Act and Allegheny county's air pollution program. He was Chairman of the Allegheny County Bar Association's Environmental Law Section and recently served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Environmental, Mineral and Natural Resources Law Section and Section delegate to the PBA. In addition, in December, 1994, Mr. Wein served on the Transition Team Study Group on Environmental issues for Governor Tom Ridge.

Maxine Woelfling, is Of Counsel in the Harrisburg Office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and practices in the Firm's Environmental Practice Group. Her work includes regulatory counseling, transactional analyses, and litigation of permitting and enforcement issues before state and federal administrative and judicial tribunals. She received a B.S. in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and her J.D. from the Notre Dame Law School. She also did graduate work in environmental health engineering in the University of Notre Dame's Graduate School of Civil Engineering. She served as the Chair of the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board from 1985 to 1995. Prior to her appointment to the Environmental Hearing Board, she was an Assistant Counsel and Director of the Bureau of Regulatory Counsel in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources. Ms. Woelfling is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She served as the Chair of its Environmental, Mineral, and Natural Resources Law Section and is currently the co-editor of the Section's newsletter. In 1995 she received the Section's annual award for outstanding achievements in the field of environmental law. Ms. Woelfling is a Master of the James S. Bowman American Inn of Court. She lectures frequently on administrative practice and procedure and environmental law.

Susan Shinkman, was appointed Chief Counsel for the Department of Environmental Protection in September 2004. Prior to that she was a Deputy General Counsel overseeing all affirmative litigation at the Office of General Counsel and serving as the Chief Hearing Officer. She served as Chief Counsel to the Inspector General from May 2003 until January 2004. Prior to her appointment as Chief Counsel to the Inspector General in 2003, Susan spent six years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. There she concentrated on health care fraud and environmental enforcement litigation, while also representing federal agencies and their officers when they were named as defendants in civil actions. Immediately before that position Susan was with Willig, Williams & Davidson, a law firm specializing in labor and employment law, where she was the senior litigator responsible for civil rights and employment discrimination actions filed in federal court. From 1992 to 1995 Susan was Chief Counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. Before accepting that appointment, she was the Chief Deputy City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia, responsible for litigating and negotiating major federal and state civil rights cases, including several class actions. She counseled the Mayor and his Cabinet on legal issues affecting personnel, ethical responsibilities, election law and relations with federal and state government. Susan worked in Washington, D.C. as a supervisory attorney for the Federal Labor Relations Authority prior to assuming the Philadelphia position. She began her career as an Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. Susan received her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College and her law degree from Temple University. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Brian J. Clark, is a shareholder and chairs the environmental practice group of Buchanan Ingersoll's Harrisburg office. Mr. Clark represents clients in environmental matters relating to Superfund, RCRA, and various waste management, water quality, and air quality compliance issues. As the former Majority Counsel to the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, he was involved in drafting various environmental statutes. Mr. Clark also served on the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources' Environmental Quality Board, is President of the Pennsylvania Resources Council, is chairman of the Environmental Affairs Committee of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, is a member of the Environmental Hearing Board Rules Committee, and is also a member of the Environmental Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Mr. Clark is an active lecturer on a variety of environmental topics for PBI, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, and other industry and civil organizations. Mr. Clark received his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law and his B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University.

Philip L. Hinerman, co-chairs the Environmental Law Group and is a member of the Zoning and Land Use Group of Fox Rothschild, LLP. He has extensive experience in environmental regulatory litigation. Mr. Hinerman also provides advice to both buyers and sellers in acquisitions and real estate matters, and assists companies in developing effective environmental programs and policies. He has also served as multi-party joint defense counsel in litigation regarding the Metcoa Recovery Facility, Novak Sanitary Landfill, Pt. Refinery Mercury Site and the Malvern TCE Site. Previously, Mr. Hinerman was associate corporate counsel with Leaseway Transportation Corporation. While there, he developed the company's environmental program and supervised all environmental litigation and regulatory matters. Mr. Hinerman is Secretary of the Environmental, Mineral and Natural Resources Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and is Vice President of the Pennsylvania Resources Council. Additionally, Mr. Hinerman is a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. He serves on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Task Force on Multi-jurisdictional Practice of Law. His interest in wines has led Mr. Hinerman to obtain a Level 3 Advanced Certification in Wines and Spirits from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, based in London. The WSET promotes, provides and develops education and training in wine and spirits. Mr. Hinerman received his J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law in1979 and his A.B. cum laude from Marshall University in 1975.

Joseph M. Manko, is a founding partner of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, in Philadelphia. Since 1988 he has served as a lecturer-in-law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, teaching courses on environmental law, practice and policy, and since 1989 as a guest lecturer at Vermont Law School. He is also a lecturer-in-law for the Temple University Master of Law program. Earlier in his career, he headed the Environmental Department at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen and served as Regional Counsel of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Middle Atlantic Region. Mr. Manko was Chairman of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council from 1988 until 1999 and remains an emeritus member of their Board of Directors where he has served for more than 25 years. He has also served as a Vice Chairman of the Environmental Law Committee of the American Bar Association, Vice Chairman of the State Water Law Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and Chairman of the Environmental Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Mr. Manko was the 2001 recipient of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Environmental, Mineral & Natural Resources Law Section's Annual Achievement Award in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to the development, improvement and furtherance of the profession of environmental law in Pennsylvania." Mr. Manko graduated cum laude from Harvard University Law School in 1964 and magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1961. He has lectured on a wide variety of environmental topics including Superfund, impacts of real estate development land recycling, indoor air liability, and the financial disclosure of environmental liabilities.

Thomas W. Scott, is a partner in the Harrisburg law firm of Killian & Gephart LLP. A 1969 graduate of Dickinson College, Mr. Scott graduated from the Dickinson Law School in 1972, where he served as Editor in Chief of the Law Review. After graduation he clerked for Chief Justice Benjamin R. Jones. After joining Killian & Gephart in 1973, Mr. Scott assumed the representation of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and has served as Legislative Counsel to PEC since that time. A significant portion of his practice is in the representation of private clients facing problems in virtually every phase of environmental regulation and litigation. Mr. Scott is an original member of the Environmental Hearing Board Rules Committee. He authored the chapter dealing with "Water Related Development Laws' in Pennsylvania Environmental Law and Practice, published by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and is a frequent lecturer at continuing education seminars.

James F. Bohan, Esquire, is the Department of Environmental Protection’s Liaison with Environmental Hearing Board and an Assistant Counsel in the Department’s Southcentral Regional Office. His duties include supervising attorneys, providing counseling and litigation support to the region’s waste management program, and counseling the Department on electronic discovery issues. Previously, Mr. Bohan was an Assistant Counsel with the Environmental Hearing Board. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College (B.A. biology), studied biology at the University of Notre Dame, and received his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.