Mr. Galbreath has worked in a variety of state, federal, private sector and academic roles in the field of environmental protection for the past 24 years.

He worked with the USDA Soil Conservation Service from 1983-89 in land conservation planning, restoration and in implementation of soil and water conservation practices on farms and rural lands.

From 1989-1993 he worked in academic water research programs in Tennessee and in citizen water monitoring in the North Carolina estuaries. He served as an Executive Administrative Assistant in the Governor’s State Planning Office from 1993-95 and as the Policy Director of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation from 1995-2003. In 2006, he left state government to join URS Corporation, the largest engineering, architecture and planning firm in the nation, to create a new business practice in sustainability services.

He currently has a joint appointment with URS and Lipscomb University where he is the Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Practice. Mr. Galbreath received the Conservationist of the Year Award in 1998 for his work in state policy issues and was the project manager for a Tennessee Department of Agriculture, sustainable stormwater project that received a Governor’s Excellence in Environmental Stewardship Award in 2006.