The Board of Trustees of the Clean Water Management Trust Fund hired Bill Holman to be its second executive director in January 2001. The General Assembly of N.C. established the Clean Water Management Trust Fund in 1996 to help finance acquisition and restoration of buffers and wetlands, wastewater improvements, stormwater controls, greenways, and other water quality investments. The General Assembly appropriated $40 million to CWMTF last year.

Holman served former Governor Jim Hunt as his Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and as Assistant Secretary for Environmental Protection 1998-2000. Holman pushed Governor Hunt's Clean Air, Clean Water, and Million Acre Initiatives through the General Assembly and the Environmental Management Commission. Governor Hunt presented him with one of the State's highest civilian honors, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine in 2000.

Holman lobbied the General Assembly on behalf of the Conservation Council of N.C., N.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club, N.C. Chapter of the American Planning Association, N.C. Public Transportation Association, N.C. Coalition for Public Transportation, and N.C. Chapter of The Nature Conservancy from 1979 -1997. He was ranked as one of the State's most effective lobbyists by legislators, journalists and other lobbyists.

Holman helped pass the Clean Water Responsibility Act of 1997, Brownfields Clean Up Act of 1997, the Clean Water Management Trust Fund Act of 1996, Parks & Recreation Authority Acts of 1993 and 1995, Watershed Protection Act of 1989, Water Supply Planning Act of 1989, Solid Waste Reduction Act of 1989, Natural Heritage Trust Fund Act of 1987, Clean Detergent Act of 1987, the Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites Clean Up Act of 1987, and many other environmental bills.

Holman has received many environmental awards including: Conservationist of the Year by the NC Wildlife Federation in 1999, Bill Holman Award by the Conservation Council of NC in 1997, Jim Dockery Service Award by the NC Chapter of the Sierra Club in 1996, and the Joseph LeConte Award by the NC Chapter of the Sierra Club in 1985.

Holman lives in the University Park neighborhood in Raleigh with his wife Stephanie Bass. He graduated magna cum laude in biology from N.C. State University in 1978. NCSU's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences presented him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award for Life Sciences in 1998. He enjoys camping, canoeing, hiking, nature study, and gardening. He completed hiking the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia in 1975.

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