YHEC State Coordinators

YHEC State Coordinators are event liaisons who coordinate with NRA Staff, YHEC Local and State Event Directors, volunteers and non-governmental organizations to help facilitate and conduct YHEC events in their state. They are essential in developing, implementing and coordinating outreach efforts and event operations. For questions about YHEC events in your state, contact your State Coordinator below:

State	Name	Phone Number	Email Address
Alabama
Alaska	Cassie Pinkel	(907) 978-2862	cassiepinkel_ehs@hotmail.com
Arizona
Arkansas	Gary Jobe	Day: (723) 253-7914 Evening: (479) 644-9442	jobepack@hotmail.com
California	Cassandra Honeyman	(559) 560-6011	cgroves@bankofthesierra.com
Colorado	Perry D. Brewer	(719) 346-8828	perry.d.brewer@gmail.com
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida	Alfred Hammond	(386) 462-5421	ahammond@nrahq.org
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois	Melissa Martin	(847) 931-0698	mmartin0698@me.com
Indiana	Brett Thompson	(317) 417-4287	brett@fnbft.com
Iowa	Loren Zaruba	(563) 357-4866	loren_zaruba@hotmail.com
Kansas	Steve Letcher	(913) 788-3606	Kansasyhec@hotmail.com
Kentucky
Louisiana	Jeff DeBileux	(985) 855-9619	jeffdeblieuxiv@charter.net
Maine
Maryland	Teresa Rasche	(301) 524-4933	t.rasche@yahoo.com
Massachusetts	James Nishan	(774) 696-8262	nishanj2000@yahoo.com
Michigan	Debi Pinkel	(517) 485-6391	StateMYHEC07@aol.com
Mississippi
Missouri	David Brooks	(417) 839-0884	cvojdbrooks@aol.com
Montana
Nebraska	Christy Christiansen	(402) 471-5541	christy.christiansen@nebraska.gov
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico	Rick Andes	(575) 762-4864	Nailbender2@plateautel.net
New York	Rich Lathrop	(570) 596-2234	rrlathrop72@gmail.com
North Carolina	Josh Jernigan	(919) 707-0287	josh.jernigan@ncwildlife.org
North Dakota	Levi Springer	(701) 651-5486	Levispringer911@hotmail.com
Ohio
Oklahoma	Christal Bensch	(580) 278-1660	iceeholic@gmail.com
Oregon	Eldon Buckner	(541) 523-6109
Pennsylvania	Charlie Fox	(570) 297-4642	Pg5c@frontier.com
Rhode Island
South Carolina	Stony Rushing	(980) 722-3787	takeaimtraining@aol.com
South Dakota
Tennessee	Johnny McFarland	(901) 832-8698 (daytime) (901) 752-4919 (evening)	Johnny.McFarland@scdag.com
Texas North	David Hammonds	(817) 236-3158	mrdavidhammonds@att.net
Texas South	Lee Griffith	(936) 402-2441	mgoregriffith@gmail.com
Texas West Central	Denise Harmel-Garza	(979) 845-4865 (daytime) (979) 690-9275 (evening)	denise.harmel-garza@tamu.edu
Utah	Brent Bassett	(435) 760-3118	Brent.bassett@digis.net
Vermont
Virginia	Lt. David Dodson	(804) 367-1000	David.dodson@dgif.virginia.gov
Washington	Bill Montgomery	(253) 377-7436	hei7226@yahoo.com
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming	Rick Rothleutner	(307) 281-9980	rrrothleutner@yahoo.com

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