Board of Directors

Susan Cleveland-Knowles, J.D. (Treasurer)
Susan is a Deputy City Attorney with the City of San Francisco. She works in the land use division, representing the mayor, board of supervisors, planning commission, planning department and other city agencies. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an undergraduate degree in international economics from Georgetown University. Prior to law school, Susan spent four years in the Czech and Slovak republics working with emerging environmental organizations. She lives in Sausalito.

Janelle Kellman, J.D.
Janelle is an attorney with the US EPA. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and holds a graduate degree in environmental management from Oxford University and an undergraduate degree in history from Yale. Janelle lives in Sausalito and serves as the vice chair of the city's planning commission.

James A. Kuhns
Jim, retired Chairman and Managing Director of Independent Consulting Resources, Inc., a compensation and organizational consulting firm, has more than 40 years of consulting and management experience. Formerly a Principal at Sibson & Co. and Kwasha Lipton, where he retired as a Partner, Jim has been CEO of Olanie, Hurst & Hemrich; a Partner at Hewitt Associates and VP of Personnel at American Express. Jim has served on the Baykeeper Board for ten years – first, from 1993 to 2001 and, after several years on our Advisory Council, again beginning in 2006. In addition to his long-time leadership at Baykeeper, Jim has served on numerous other nonprofit boards and advisory councils over the years, with a focus on environmental education and the arts.

Felicia Marcus, J.D.
Felicia is Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for the Trust for Public Land. Prior to joining TPL, Felicia served as Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency REgion IX from 1993 until 2001. Before that, she served as President of the Board of Public Works for the City of Los Angeles. She also has extensive background as a private sector and public interest lawyer, and is known for her efforts to clean up Santa Monica Bay, particularly as a founder and general counsel to Heal the Bay.

Marina Moreno
Marina joined the Baykeeper Board after retiring as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Macromedia. Marina grew up in Argentina where she spent many years swimming where the tidal Rio de la Plata meets the Atlantic Ocean. As an avid surfer, Marina brings a passion for water quality and first-hand knowledge of the Pacific Ocean's near shore marine environment. 

Timothy A. Murray
Tim manages the San Francisco and St. Helena offices of Alain Pinel Realtors and is responsible for day-to-day operations at both locations and charged with growing the firm in the city and North Bay. He was President and CEO of Pacific Union GMAC Real Estate from September 2003 to early 2007 – a firm he started with in 1978 by selling condominiums. Tim was a close friend and colleague of Dorothy Reed, and it is because of her passion for Baykeeper’s work that Tim has committed to continuing her legacy.

William A. Newsom, J.D., Ret. Justice
Bill is a retired state appellate justice and a long-time environmentalist. As an attorney, he represented many environmental groups and has served on numerous boards, including Lahontan Regional Water Board, Mountain Lion Foundation, Earthjustice, Sierra Legal Defense Fund and Wildlife Conservancy. Bill is the 2005 recipient of our Dorothy Reed Environmental Leadership Award.

Leo P. O'Brien (Secretary)
Leo served as Baykeeper's Executive Director from 2003-2006 and as the organization's Legal Director and San Francisco Baykeeper from 1999-2002. Leo holds a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. Prior to being employed at Baykeeper, Leo litigated to protect California’s forests and endangered species.

Owen O'Donnell, J.D. (Chair)
Owen is a real estate developer in San Francisco. He is one of the founders of Pacific Primary, one of the finest pre-schools in the country, and was a board member of Youth Advocates, which provides social services to local runaway youths in San Francisco. He practiced law in San Francisco for 18 years and has worked in the securities industry since 1987 with several small, local brokerage firms. Owen holds an undergraduate degree in Politics and Economics from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Robert M. Reed
Bob Reed is the Vice President and General Manager of Reed & Associates, where he assists clients with marketing and business development strategies. Bob has more than twenty-five years experience working in industrial and municipal water treatment and has served on the state's Department of Water Resources Water Recycling Task Force.  He holds a degree in mining engineering from Pennsylvania State University.  Bob's sister, Dorothy Reed, served for many years as a Baykeeper Board member, before passing away in 2003.

Nancy Sutley
Nancy was a member of the State Water Resources Control Board, the agency charged with protecting water quality and water resources in California. Prior to her appointment, she was Energy Advisor to Governor Gray Davis and served as Deputy Secretary for Policy and Intergovernmental Relations with the California EPA. For six years, Nancy worked with the US EPA as the Senior Policy Advisor for Region 9 in San Francisco and as Special Assistant to the Administrator in Washington, DC.