Board Members

President: Jeffrey E. Miller 
Missoula, MT

Jeff Miller is a US Army veteran and has a BA degree in History from the University of Montana. He has been a member of NARO for eighteen years. During this time he has acquired the CMM designation from NARO, has been an active member of the National Legislative council and made numerous trips to Washington DC with that group. He is a member of the NARO board of advisors and has participated in many other NARO committees. As the Trustee of a family trust, his involvement with NARO has been instrumental in assisting him in the management of the trust’s mineral interests located in south Texas and throughout Oklahoma. For fun he flies his airplane.
 

Vice President George Wilson                             
Dallas, TX

George Wilson, CMM, Vice President -- George Wilson is a Certified Minerals Manager. He is currently a Board member of NARO and OK-NARO, is on the NARO Ethics Committee and is a member of the National Advisory Council of NARO. A former attorney, Wilson practiced law in Oklahoma for 30 years where he also served as a federal magistrate and city judge. Today Wilson devotes his time to managing mineral interests for clients. He frequently speaks on the topics of “Techniques of Mineral Management,” “Leasing: How to Mine the Underground” and other topics of interest to royalty owners.

Corporate Secretary: Susan Brewer                       
Hartshorne, OK

Treasurer
Mike Turman                       
Oklahoma City, OK

Mike Turman, Treasurer. Mike Turman, a Certified Mineral Manager with NARO, is a Mineral Property Manager with J.P. Morgan. Since 1981, Mike has worked as a Title Analyst, Division Order Analyst, Independent Landman and Mineral Property Manager. For OK-NARO, he currently serves as Treasurer, Board Member, Chair of the Website Committee and a member of the By-Laws Committee. For NARO, Mike serves as Chair of the National Advisory Council, Chair of the Website Committee, Chair of the Nominations Committee and a member of the By-Laws Committee. Mike holds a Bachelors of Business Administration in Business Management from the University of Oklahoma. Mike entered the oil & gas industry in 1981 as a Title Analyst and Division Order Analyst with Harper Oil Company in Oklahoma City. His experience includes working for a natural gas pipeline company, Arkla Energy Resources, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Since 1993, Mike has been managing oil & gas properties for Liberty Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City, which is now part of J.P. Morgan. 

Immediate Past President:
Tina Bonner                
Duncan, OK     

Tina Bonner, CMM, NARO Immediate Past President. Tina Bonner, Certified Mineral Manager (CMM), a fourth generation royalty owner, began managing her own and her family's minerals and royalties in Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi, Colorado and North Dakota in 1975 while a Communications Dissemination Training Coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Education. She received both her Bachelor of Arts in Education and her Masters of Education from the University of Central Oklahoma. Tina was one of the two NARO members on the NADOA Model Form Division Order Committee. Currently she is serving as the Secretary and Newsletter Chair of Oklahoma-NARO, the Advisory Council of the Oklahoma Commission of Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells, a member of the Scholastic Outreach Committee of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board, a member of the OERB Scholars Committee, a Petro Pro, the Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook for the National Association of Division Order Analysts, and on the Board of the NARO Foundation. 

OK-NARO President David Sikes
Chickasha, Ok       

NARO-TX President Candice Upton Brewer             
San Angelo, TX        

NARO-Rockies President Neil Ray           
         
NARO-Arkansas Dwight Brown          
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NARO-Appalachia President
Robert Hart                    
Charleston, WV    
     
NARO-Pennsylvania President

At-Large
Linn Willers                    
Jacksonville, FL

Linn A. Willers is a three-decade member of the National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO), a current NARO Board Member, a three term past NARO President, a NARO Texas Board member, the current President and Chairman of the NARO Foundation for Energy Owner Research and the Vice President of Wells Fargo Banks Trust Oil, Gas and Minerals Unit.  Linn is a four-decade Trust Banker who earned his Bachelors Degree from Metro State University located in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He is a Certified Mineral Manager (CMM), and a member of the following organizations: the American Association of Professional Landmen (RLP), the Denver Association of Petroleum Landmen (DAPL), the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, the National Association of Division Order Analysts (NADOA), the National Association of Lease Title Analysts (NALTA) and the Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Association.

Bill Sinclair                                   
Dallas, TX  
NARO-TX member, Bill Sinclair, has the family history and hands-on experience to become an active and dedicated member of the NARO board of directors. Dating back to the 1930s, Bill’s great-great-grandfather, J K Wadley, started drilling wells in addition to owner mineral interests in the East Texas Oil Field, the Hawkins Field and countless other fields and interests in the Ark-La-Tex region, as well as several other states across the country.

Bill’s grandfather was also in the exploration business and managed the Wadley minerals in the 1970s. After his death, Bill’s uncle Robert took over the management of the family’s minerals and left the operating side of the business to focus exclusively on mineral ownership.

Bill personally took an interest into the mineral industry when he moved to Dallas in 2005 to help manage his family’s minerals. There, he learned about oil and gas revenue accounting in addition to land management for the family’s various trusts.  Determined to streamline the tedious process of mineral management, Bill designed and developed the first version of MineralFile, which was used to manage the mineral rights of various family entities. 

The following year Bill founded Agelio Networks, Inc. and began development on the first commercial version of the application, designed solely for mineral owners and managers. It was released to the public in February of 2008.

Bill now lives in Denver, CO where he continues to run Agelio and spends his free time biking, fly fishing, playing hockey, skiing and spending time with his family. 
                        
Curt Edmondson                  
Beaverton, OR
J. Curtis Edmondson is a patent attorney and Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), holding a B.S. and Masters in Electrical Engineering.  Mr. Edmondson has worked with inventors and innovators of oil and gas technology that will extend the life of oil and gas wells.  Mr. Edmondson has also counseled and litigated on behalf of client's royalty interests, in particular, the application of California Blue Sky Laws to the transfer of oil and gas interests.
Before practicing law, he served for over 11 years as Chief Technical Officer at Petrolis/LIMS, a software innovator, where he negotiated software licenses and developed the first web-based system  to track royalty payments,  He was also the advisor to the XML Standards Committee of the American Petroleum Institute. Prior to Petrolis, Curt worked for Hughes Aircraft and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories as an electrical engineer.


Sam Palmer                   
San Francisco, CA
Samuel Palmer. lives in San Francisco, California.  Which, while being famous for Gay marriage and the Golden Gate Bridge, is also the home of my representative in Congress, Nancy Pelosi.  (And that might matter if the the Windfall Profits Tax comes up for a vote.)
 
I have been coming to NARO meetings for more than ten years now.  At present, I am in the process of acquiring my CMM.  I manage the royalty interests for my family.
 
The most important thing that we as an organization need to do is exercise prudent stewardship of our precious resources.  This means continued education for members.  This means vigilant protection of our property rights.  And this means that we get paid properly for our resources. 
 
It also means that the next generation of mineral owners (more often than not, your children and grandchildren) have a place they can go to to learn and seek counsel when THEY become stewards of the land. 

NLC Chair
Roy Savage        
Rifle, CO 81650