Rand Wentworth
President  

Rand Wentworth is President of Land Trust Alliance, a Washington, DC based land conservation organization that provides policy, lobbying, and training services for America’s 1600 land trusts.  Prior to joining Land Trust Alliance in 2002, he was Vice President of the Trust for Public Land and founding director of its Atlanta office. Previously, Mr. Wentworth was president of a commercial real estate development company.  He is a graduate of Yale University and holds an MBA in finance from Cornell University.

He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee and serves on the Ethics and Accountability Committee of the Independent Sector. The Atlanta Regional Commission presented Mr. Wentworth its Visionary Regional Leadership Award and the Urban Land Institute recognized him with its Community Leadership Award for creating a river greenway in Atlanta.  Morehouse College has honored Mr. Wentworth for expanding the Martin Luther King Jr. National Park in downtown Atlanta.

Mary Pope M. Hutson
Executive Vice President

Mary Pope M. Hutson joined Land Trust Alliance as Vice President in August of 2002 and is currently the Executive Vice President. Prior to working for the Alliance, she was Executive Director of the Lowcountry Open Land Trust (SC) and founded and chaired the SC Land Trust Network. Mary Pope received a Bachelor of Arts from Sweet Briar College in 1983 with a concentration in International Affairs. She is a native of Charleston, South Carolina.

She has worked as director of educational programs for Historic Charleston Foundation. She was appointed by the Governor of South Carolina as the first woman to serve on the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Board. She served as a political appointee for President George H. W. Bush at the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya as Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador. In the 1980’s, she worked for the US Department of the Interior in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She was a Legislative Research Assistant to U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. In 2000, she served on the Bush-Cheney transition team for the U.S. Department of Interior for Fish and Wildlife issues and territories.

Catherine Scott
Chief Operating Officer

Catherine Scott joined the Alliance in June of 2007 and is currently the Chief Operating Officer. As COO, she will manage operations for the senior directors for all conservation programs, education, finance, policy, communications, information services and technology, and fundraising.

A graduate of Dartmouth College and an attorney trained at Stanford Law School, Catherine has done exemplary work in the nonprofit, government and private sector, amassing the right combination of experience we need to lead the Alliance as we face new challenges. For the past seven years, she has served as the Director of Land Conservation for the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC), where she supervises seven senior directors and field offices.