SCENIC UTAH BOARD

RALPH BECKER served as Mayor of Salt Lake City  from 2008 to 2015. He is now Director of the Central Wasatch Commission, an agency of state and local jurisdictions working to advance the Mountain Accord agreement. He served 11 years in the Utah House of Representatives (1996-2007), including five as House Minority Leader. Prior to his legislative service, he was Utah State Planning Coordinator under Governor Scott Matheson and served on the Salt Lake City Planning Commission. He co-founded and worked for 22 years at Bear West, a community and environmental consulting firm. Throughout his career, Ralph has worked to serve communities across Utah, and to preserve the state’s remarkable scenic character.  He is founding Chair of the Board of Scenic Utah, and serves as a board member of Scenic Utah's parent organization, Scenic America. 

JOHN HUEBNER, a Park City resident, was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and spent much of his career in Greenville, South Carolina. Motivated by billboard blight and the increasing power of the outdoor advertising industry, he co-founded Scenic South Carolina in 2001. In 1987, he founded Mor-Lite, a company that pioneered energy-efficient lighting technology in Greenville. Since then, Mor-Lite technology has been installed in hundreds of industrial plants, warehouses and distribution facilities throughout the United States. He earned a degree in urban planning from the University of Mississippi, and later worked as an urban planner in Greenville. He also served as President of Greenville’s Beautification Commission; in that role he wrote the city’s first sign ordinance. He was Chairman of Leadership South Carolina, where he met scores of people across the state who shared his passion for scenic preservation and limiting visual blight. Not long after back-to-back hurricanes in 1985 thwarted his plan to sail around the world, in 1999, John married the late Deedee Corradini, former Salt Lake City Mayor (1992-2000) and moved his company to Utah to be closer to Deedee and her family. 

Doug Mortensen is a Salt Lake City trial attorney. Recently retired from day-to-day practice, he is currently involved in a number of community projects. He is an Honorary Lifetime member of the Utah Association for Justice. An active member of Rotary International, he and his wife Vicki spent several months in Santa Cruz, Bolivia with Ascend Alliance working on programs to help people ascend out of poverty. Doug is an adjunct professor of business law and ethics at Westminster College and a certified masters swim coach. He has explored and appreciated many of our region’s scenic wonders – beginning with his early adventures in the Uinta Mountains and at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, and has enjoyed climbing several of Utah’s majestic mountains, including King’s Peak, Lone Peak, and Mount Nebo.