Bill Holman

Bill is Senior Advisor to the Conservation Fund in North Carolina. He directed the Fund’s real estate program in the state from 2013 to 2023.

His current projects include increasing funding for North Carolina’s Land and Water Fund and Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, providing funding for state and local trails, and advocating for One Water strategies to protect drinking water and to reduce flooding.

Bill directed Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions state policy program from 2007 to 2012. He served as Gov. Jim Hunt’s Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources from 1999 to 2000 and as Assistant Secretary from 1998 to 1999. He worked as Executive Director of the North Carolina-Clean Water Management Trust Fund, a water-quality financing program, from 2001 to 2006.

The Water Environment Federation presented its Outstanding Contributions to the Water Environment for Non-Members Award to Bill in 2014.

Bill graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in biology from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He completed hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1975.