Nick Penniman

Board Chair Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Vice-chair Collier County Growth Management Oversight Committee

Nicholas G. Penniman IV retired in 1999 as publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and senior vice president of newspaper operations for Pulitzer Publishing Company.

A 1960 graduate of Princeton University (Religion), he did graduate work at the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania (Finance) and at Washington University St. Louis with an M.A. in American Culture Studies in 2000.

Penniman has been deeply involved in environmental advocacy – currently as board chair of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and a trustee of the Everglades Foundation, and as past chair of American Rivers, past chair of the Environmental Law Clinic of Washington University in St. Louis and chair emeritus of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

Locally, he is vice-chair of the Collier County Growth Management Oversight Committee.

Married for 49 years he and his wife, Linda, have two children and five grandchildren. They reside in Naples, Florida.