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James "Jim" Vigil is a Colorado native and former Las Animas County Commissioner who runs his family's farm on the Purgatoire River. Vigil served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the late 1960s before obtaining a Bachelors degree from Metropolitan State College in Denver and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Denver.

Vigil pursued a career as a financial analyst in the mineral development and banking industries. He has also served on the faculty and in the administration of Trinidad State Junior College.

Term Expires: 2013

E-Mail Address: jim.vigil@state.co.us

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Dean Wingfield of Vernon is active in a cow-calf and dryland farming operation in Yuma County, along the eastern border of Colorado. Dean owns, resides on and operates the land his grandfather originally homesteaded in 1886.
 
He has served as a Yuma County Commissioner since 1997. Prior to becoming a county commissioner, Dean served as a director on Yuma County Soil Conservation District for 18 years and as a director for Central Yuma County Groundwater Management District for 13 years. He currently serves on the Department of Local Affairs Mineral Production Employee Residence Report Oversight Committee. Dean is a director on the Boards of Eastern Colorado Services for the Developmentally Disabled and the Northeast Colorado Transit Authority.

Current memberships in organizations include the Farmers Union, R-Calf, and the Elks. Dean has also been on the Board of the Yuma County Cattlemen’s Association for the past 28 years. Wingfield plants annual food plots and has established wildlife habitats on his land. He allows free access to roughly 10,000 acres on his property for pheasant, deer and antelope hunting.

Term Expires: 2014

E-mail: dean.wingfield@state.co.us

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Michelle Zimmerman is the vice president of operations for Innovative Energy in Breckenridge. A former ski instructor and wildland firefighter, Zimmerman is a graduate of the University of Denver. She spent eight years in land conservation and was previously the executive director of both the Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project in Denver and the Rincon Institute in Tucson.

Zimmerman is a member of numerous renewable energy and conservation groups and currently serves on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Habitat Stamp Committee. 

Term Expires: 2016

E-Mail Address: michelle.zimmerman@state.co.us

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Mike is a native West Slope Coloradoan. Mike became the Assistant Director for Lands, Minerals and Energy Policy in January of 2006 and was appointed as Deputy Director in September of 2006. Prior to his employment in the Executive Director’s Office, Mike worked in the Policy and Regulation Section at the Colorado Division of Wildlife in various capacities for six years and was an Assistant Attorney General from 1993-1999.

Mike received his Bachelors degree in journalism from CU-Boulder, law degree from the University of Denver and a Masters in Public Administration from CU-Denver’s Graduate School of Public Affairs.

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Suite 718
Denver, CO 80203

Phone: (303) 866-3311
Fax: (303) 866-2115

E-mail: mike.king@state.co.us