Saint Paul -- Governor Tim Pawlenty today announced the reappointment of Paige Winebarger as a public member of the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB). Winebarger was appointed to the EQB on December 8, 2003 to fill the remaining term of Brian Kaden. She is now reappointed to a full four-year term ending January 7, 2008.

Winebarger, of Bloomington, retired in 2001 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Marquette Financial Companies in Minneapolis. She previously served as an attorney for the Federal Reserve System and as Assistant Commissioner of Banks and the Minnesota Department of Commerce.

Winebarger currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy of Minnesota and as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota. She previously served as Board Member and Chair of the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota and as Board Member and Officer of Friends of the Minnesota River Valley. She received a B.S. in Business Education from Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) helps coordinate the actions of the major state agencies, and is charged with providing the Governor and the Legislature tools to address environmental issues that do not fit under the other state environmental agencies. The board consists of 16 members, including five public members appointed by the Governor.