Steve Duerr recently retired from the Jackson Hole Chamber
of Commerce and has been a leader in the Jackson Hole community since his arrival in Jackson
Hole in 1985. He is a founding member of the Board of the Charture Institute,
a non-profit organization that conducts research aimed at helping communities
chart their future, and was a founding member of the Jackson Hole-based Center
for Resolution, a non-profit corporation that aims to resolve regional social
and political issues. He currently serves as a member of the Board of
Directors and co-chairs the International Activities Committee of the Jackson
Hole Rotary Club. He is also Senior Vice President at ANB Bank in
Jackson.
Mr. Duerr also founded and served as director of the Teton County Community
Advisory Group, a local land rights group, and founded Ski Wyoming, Inc., a
regional ski area association. He served from 1995 to 2001 as Chairman and
Board member of the Community Entry Services Foundation, an organization that
assists individuals with disabilities to integrate and work in regional
communities, and has served as a member of the Board of the Jackson Hole
Museum and Teton County Historical Society.
From 1985 to 1992 Mr. Duerr served as Executive Vice President, Director
and Legal Counsel for the Jackson Hole Ski Corporation. Mr. Duerr's other
legal experience includes his current appointment as General Legal Counsel for
Lower Valley Energy, Inc. and his previous appointment from 1992 to 1999 as an
attorney with the Jackson Hole office of Holland and Hart, a regional law
firm. After graduating magna cum laude from the University of St. Thomas in
1976, he earned a JD degree from William Mitchell College of Law in 1980 and a
Master of Laws in Taxation at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1982.