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LYNDA L. BROWN, Ph.D., is the director of human resources for Tamarack Management, Inc., the employee management company for the Western Montana Clinic and several other physician group practices in Western Montana. Dr. Brown is certified by the Society for Human Resource Management as a senior human resource professional (SPHR). She is an adjunct faculty member for the School of Business at the University of Montana where she teaches strategic human resource management for the MBA program and the Department of Marketing and Management. Dr. Brown has more than 30 years of experience managing human resources for both private and public employers in Montana and Washington, including eLocal Network, Inc., St. Patrick Hospital, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the University of Montana, and Washington State University. She has served as the human resource advisor for a number of non-profit boards in Missoula and is currently a member of the board of directors for United Way of Missoula County. The owner of her own management consulting practice, Dr. Brown specializes in executive coaching, organizational development and strategy, compliance and third-party investigations, and employee development/performance management. She frequently serves as an expert witness in discrimination and employment cases. Dr. Brown has a Ph.D. degree from Florida State University, an M.Ed. degree in counseling and student personnel from the University of Oklahoma, and a B.S. degree in biology from the College of William and Mary. She has held numerous elected leadership positions at the national level with the Society for Human Management (SHRM), the world's largest professional association of human resource practitioners. Dr. Brown has been a member of the board of directors for the HR Certification Institute, which develops certification standards as well as the testing and training materials for certifying human resource professionals worldwide. She is past president of the SHRM Foundation, the Society's research and development arm. Dr. Brown is a former chair of the National Research Committee for SHRM and was appointed to the task force that developed the Society's code of ethics. She worked with the foundation and HRCI on initiatives focused on certification and human resource practices in small businesses. She wrote a chapter on performance appraisal in "Effective Human Resource Measurement Techniques," published by the Society for Human Resource Management and is a contributing author to a 2005 Montana Law Review article on Montana's Wrongful Discharge Act. MICHELE PUIGGARI is the founder and owner of Puiggari Consulting Services, in Missoula. After earning her J.D. degree from the Catholic University School of Law, she started her own successful employment law practice, where she represented both employees and employers. Ms. Puiggari has provided basic human resource legal consulting services; employment training for managers and employees; review and revision of employment policies and procedures; and employment investigation services. In addition to her busy law practice, she worked for the legislature and lobbied for children and women's issues. After moving to Montana, she became the human resources director of a medium-sized, multi-state company headquartered in Missoula. Ms. Puiggari's new business offers human resource consulting services focusing on employment policy development, employment training and resolving workplace discrimination complaints, including employment discrimination investigations. CYNTHIA WALKER is a shareholder with the law firm of Poore, Roth & Robinson, P.C., in Butte, where she focuses her practice in labor and employment, commercial litigation, and insurance litigation . Prior to joining Poore, Roth & Robinson, Ms. Walker clerked for Justice Jim Regnier at the Montana Supreme Court and practiced law in Missoula with the firms of Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., and Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams, P.C. She earned her B.A. degree in political science, with an emphasis in public administration, from the University of Montana and her J.D. degree, with honors, from the University of Montana School of Law in 1999.
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