On January 17th, 2017, Nate Sickler was appointed as the Sheriff of Jackson County, Oregon, by the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. He had been serving as the deputy chief of the sheriff’s office since December 30th of 2016.

Sheriff Sickler began a career in law enforcement in 1998 as a reserve police officer, while he finished his education at Southern Oregon University.

In 1999, he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology and was hired full-time as a police officer for the City of Phoenix, Oregon. He worked there until taking a job with the City of Klamath Falls Police Department in 2002. As a city police officer, Sickler served as a patrol corporal, a SWAT team member, a drug recognition evaluator (D.R.E.) and a firearms instructor.

In 2006, Sheriff Sickler had an opportunity to come to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and begin his career as a deputy. He was promoted in 2008 to Sergeant, and worked as a patrol sergeant until October of 2012, when he moved to the Criminal Investigations Division. In March of 2015 he took a position as an interim captain, and in July of 2015 he was promoted to Captain.

As a sheriff’s deputy, Sheriff Sickler served on the department’s SWAT team and in the training unit as a Firearms and Active Shooter instructor. He also served as a department association representative, a D.R.E. and a D.R.E. instructor for 4 years.

State of Oregon

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Founder and CEO of PanXchange

Julie Lerner is the Founder and CEO of PanXchange, a trading platform and market structure solution for physical commodities that specializes in bringing liquidity and efficiencies to thin and/or nascent markets. She was selected as a Futures Industry Association (FIA) Innovator and selected in the inaugural class of the Most Admired CEOs by the Denver Business Journal. She holds two U.S. patents on the PanXchange platform, with another pending. She is a regular contributor to industry trade publications, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Bloomberg TV.

Ms. Lerner began her career with Cargill International (Switzerland) and later became the senior trader for Cargill’s Latin American sugar markets, where she focused on the development of origination markets with successful financing programs and warehouse and distribution programs. She has also held several positions in trading and business development with companies such as XL Financial (weather derivatives) and Sempra Energy Trading (electricity).

Ms. Lerner has extensive experience in regional and international agricultural and energy markets. Geographically, her area of expertise covers the U.S., Europe, Latin America and East Africa. She is an advisor to early-stage companies, offering a 360-degree perspective from entrepreneurs to angel investors, and from smallholder farmers to Fortune 100 executives.

Ed has been involved with agricultural policy in Washington, D.C. since 2007, and is currently with the American Bankers Association. Prior to ABA, he worked on Capitol Hill, with the National Corn Growers Association and the United States Department of Transportation. Growing up on a farm has given Ed a unique perspective on agriculture and rural America. He enjoys sharing my rural perspective with others, both inside and outside D.C.