Wyoming Transportation Commissioners

Jim Latta, of Pinedale, represents Commission District 3, serving Lincoln, Sublette, Teton and Uinta counties.

Latta recently retired from a long-time career as agency manager with Mountain West Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co., and worked in insurance sales and management since 1980. He has also worked in agriculture and construction.

After graduating from Chugwater High School, Latta attended the University of Wyoming where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration.

Previous public service includes terms as president of the Sublette County Historical Society, Sublette County Retirement Center, and as a member of the Sublette County Museum Board and Sublette County Farm Bureau.

Ted Ertman, of Newcastle, represents Commission District 6, which covers Crook, Niobrara, Weston counties. Prior to joining the commission, he completed 12 years of service to the Weston County Commission, including five years as chairman. During his tenure on the County Commission, he served as a member of the Wyoming County Commissioners Association’s Road and Bridge Committee. He has also been a member and served as chair of the Wyoming Technology Transfer Center and the Wyoming County Roads Standards in Committee.

He has worked for Belle Fourche Pipeline and is currently employed by Eighty-Eight Oil Co., subsidiaries of the Casper-based True Companies. During his career, Ertman has worked as a crude oil field gauger, pipeline operator, and an oil station operator.

Ertman, a lifelong resident of the Newcastle area, has an associate degree in applied science from Sheridan College. He and his wife Marty have raised four children.

Clair Anderson, of Riverton, represents Commission District 7, which includes Converse, Fremont and Natrona counties. Anderson heads up Bonneville Transloaders, Inc. (BTI), a diversified transportation company that specializes in supporting the mineral and petroleum industries. Anderson started with BTI in 1986 as a truck driver and earned a series of promotions until becoming president in 2008. In total, he counts 43 years of experience in the trucking industry.

Anderson is a native of Utah, where he graduated from high school and attended technical school. He is a U.S. Army veteran and a graduate of the Rocky Mountain Employers’ Council. He has earned certification from Wyoming Business Leadership Institute and is a long-term member of the Wyoming Trucking Association (WTA), where he currently serves 2nd Vice President on the Board of Directors.

Anderson enjoys hunting, fishing and golf during his free time. He and his wife Kathy have two grown children, also Riverton residents, who are involved in transportation and agricultural industries.

Milt Coulter, of Gillette, represents Commission District 4, which includes Campbell, Sheridan and Johnson counties. He was appointed by Gov. Matt Mead in February 2012 to fill the vacancy on the Commission which had resulted from the death of Jim Hladky the previous October. 

Cactus Covello, of Torrington, represents Commission District 1, which includes Goshen, Platte and Laramie counties. Covello owned and operated Covello Motor Co. in Torrington from 1984 until 2009. The dealership had been selling new and used cars since 1954, and Covello began working there full time in 1977, a year after earning his bachelor’s degree at the University of Wyoming. In 2009, Cactus went to work for the First National Bank in Torrington, where he now serves as vice president.

He served 16 years on the Torrington Airport Board, and has been a member of the boards of the Goshen County Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Corp., Recreation Commission, Two-shot Goose Hunt, the First National Bank of Torrington, and Torrington’s First Wyoming Presbyterian Church. He is a former fire chief and 27-year member of the Torrington Volunteer Fire Department.

K. John Dooley, of Laramie, represents Commission District 2, which encompasses Albany, Carbon and Sweetwater counties. He is president of Dooley Oil, Inc., a family-owned and operated petroleum product distributor servicing clients in southeastern Wyoming and northern Colorado.

Dooley, who was born in Casper, graduated from Laramie High School. He is a 1988 business administration graduate of Colorado State University.

He has volunteered with the Albany County United Way, Laramie Economic Development Corp., Laramie Little League and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and he’s a board member of First National Bank of Wyoming. He and his wife Tracy have two children. Among spare-time pursuits, he counts fishing, golf and youth sports.
 

Bruce McCormack, of Cody, represents Commission District 5, which includes Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties. He is the long-time editor and publisher of the Cody Enterprise newspaper, and is a former co-owner of the newspaper.

McCormack is a graduate of Memorial High School in Houston, Texas, and he earned a B.A. in journalism from Michigan State University in 1975. He has been involved in the newspaper business in Wyoming for the past 35 years, working in Rawlins, Cheyenne and Lander, prior to moving to Cody in 1984.

McCormack is a member of the Wyoming Press Association and the Cody Country Chamber of Commerce, and is currently vice-chairman of the Park County Library Board. He has also volunteered with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and has assisted with youth ski programs and tourism promotion in his community.