Dan Kemmis

Daniel Kemmis is the author of 3 books: Community and The Politics of Place; The Good City and the Good Life; and This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West.  A past director of The University of Montana's Center for the Rocky Mountain West, Mr. Kemmis was formerly Mayor of Missoula, Montana, and he served as both Speaker and Minority Leader of the Montana House of Representatives.  Mr. Kemmis serves on the Board of Directors of Philanthropy Northwest, the Kettering and Northwest Area Foundations, and the Missoula Redevelopment Agency.  He is a graduate of Harvard University and The University of Montana School of Law.

In May of 2010, the Policy Consensus Initiative Board presented the Ruckelshaus Award for Collaborative Leadership to Daniel Kemmis.