[ODFW-News] Elicker tapped for interim ODFW director

[ODFW News]

For Immediate Release Monday, Dec. 12, 2005
 
Elicker tapped for interim ODFW director

SALEM - The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today voted unanimously
to select Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Deputy Director Roy
Elicker as interim director.  

The interim director will lead ODFW while a search is conducted for a
permanent replacement for departing director Lindsay Ball. Ball's last
day with ODFW will be Dec. 30. He is leaving ODFW to become director of
the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.

Elicker, 52, has been Deputy Director since 2001. His tenure with ODFW
spans back to 1993, when he was hired as a Watershed Health Program
Coordinator. Other positions include Fish Screening program manager,
Fish Division Deputy Administrator and Legislative Coordinator.  

Elicker earned a Master's Degree in wildlife biology from Rutgers
University in 1982 and an environmental law degree from Lewis and Clark
College Northwest School of Law. He and wife, Bonnie, reside in
Portland. They have three sons. 

He officially begins his duties Jan. 3. The Commission in January will
begin a national search for a new director. 

The seven-member Commission is the rulemaking body for fish and wildlife
issues in Oregon.

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