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68th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference
December 9-12 2007
BE THE CHANGE
Manage Locally Conserve Globally™
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Mamie Parker
Mamie Parker is the Assistant Director for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, overseeing 750 employees at 70 National Fish Hatcheries, 1 Historic National Fish Hatchery, 7 Fish Technology Centers, 9 Fish Health Centers, 64 Fishery Resource Offices and 1 Genetics Laboratory. She is also responsible for Federal projects review activities oversight, and for more than 70 Ecological Services offices in all 50 states.
An avid angler, Parker began her Service career in 1978 at the Fish Health Laboratory at the Genoa National Fish hatchery in Wisconsin. She spent the next fifteen years in the Great Lakes region both working in the Fisheries program and the Ecological Services program.
From there, she went to Atlanta where she served as the Deputy Geographic Assistant Regional Director for the Southeast Region, and as Assistant Regional Director-Fisheries. From Atlanta, Parker moved to the Director’s Office in Washington, where she served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Director and the Director, providing advice, analyses and recommendations on issues affecting Service staff, national policies and the Service’s ecosystem approach.
In September, 1999, Parker was appointed the Service’s Deputy Regional Director and Regional Director of the 13 Northeast States, headquarters in Hadley, Massachusetts. She subsequently moved from Hadley to Washington to serve in her current position as the Assistant Director for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation, where she continues to work with partners to move the Fisheries and Habitat Conservation program through its strategic planning process, contributing to healthy fish, healthy habitat, healthy people and a healthy economy.
Often referred to as “an uncommon woman in many uncommon places,” Parker is the youngest of 11 children of Cora Parker. She is a native of the South, where she learned to catch, cook and eat bass, catfish and bowfin, before discovering walleye and salmon. She and her husband, Artist, make their home in Northern Virginia.
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