Margaret Bird
ASTL Founder and President · Utah
Fifty years of trust-lands reform; co-founder of ASTL and the architect behind Utah’s Permanent State School Fund growth from $41M to roughly $4B.
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Team
Board, staff, and state-level leaders carrying the work of school trust lands across the West — decades of advocacy, reform, and stewardship.
Tonia Day
ASTL Chief Executive Officer · Utah
A thirty-year leader in K-12 and higher education, Tonia translates strategy into action and currently leads ASTL as Chief Executive Officer.
Marguerite Herman
Board Secretary · Wyoming
Veteran reporter, civic educator, and Wyoming legislative advocate who brings decades of statehouse experience to the ASTL board.
Sheri Mattle
Board Member — PTA Trust Lands Specialist · Utah
Career K-12 public-education advocate serving as the Utah PTA Trust Lands specialist on the ASTL board.
Corey Fairholm
Board Member · Utah
Immediate Past President of the Utah PTA, representing 77,000+ members and championing perpetual stewardship of the permanent fund.
Barbara Smith
Board Treasurer · Utah
Davis County school-board member who helped pass the legislation directing Utah trust-lands earnings out to every school.
Dave Sullivan
OASTL President; ASTL Board ex officio · Oregon
Founder and president of Oregon Advocates for School Trust Lands; OSU College of Business emeritus and longtime trust-lands advocate.
Source: schooltrustlands.org/coalition-table/team (2026-05-15) with expanded substrate for Margaret Bird, Tonia Day, and the addition of Dave Sullivan (OASTL President, ex officio).
Team bios reviewed May 2026 — ASTL editorial
Emeritus · First Punctilio of Honor recipient
Roy Andes
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Montana · Emeritus
Montana attorney and emeritus Advocates for School Trust Lands board member. Roy Andes’s litigation — including Montanans for Responsible Use of School Trust — placed Cardozo’s “punctilio of an honor the most sensitive” on the legal record for school-trust-lands management, secured millions of dollars for Montana’s schools, and defined the legal standard for trust advocacy that ASTL has carried forward.
In recognition of that body of work, ASTL has named Roy Andes the first recipient of the annual Punctilio of Honor Award, to be presented at the 2026 ASTL Conference after the public program is confirmed.