President, Crockett Street Management, LLC; President, Elk Mountain Builders, Inc., United States

Jessica Hobby Catto is President of Crockett Street Management, LLC, an investment company. She founded Elk Mountain Builders, Inc. a Colorado company with a focus on energy saving construction. She served as Vice Chairman of H&C Communications, Inc. a broadcasting company of network affiliated television stations.

Ms. Catto serves on the Chairman’s Council of Conservation International, the boards of the National Parks Conservation Association, World Resources Institute, and is former Vice Chair of Environmental Defense. Under the auspices of the American Land Trust Association and the Conservation Fund, she established the American Land Conservation award, given annually to a citizen conservationist, selected from nationally submitted nominations. She, along with her husband, established the Fellowship for a Sustainable Future at the Aspen Institute. She is a contributing editor of the American Journalism Review, a magazine for which she served as publisher from 1980 to 1987. She has written for that magazine, The Washington Post in this country and the Independent, the Sunday Times and the Guardian in London on press, political and environmental issues. She has published a novel under a pseudonym.

President Clinton appointed her to the Advisory Board of the National Parks System in 1993 and President Nixon appointed her to the Kennedy Center’s Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts. Ms. Catto is also a former trustee of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Ms. Catto accompanied her husband, Henry E. Catto, in his diplomatic missions abroad while he was ambassador to El Salvador, the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and to Great Britain. She and Mr. Catto have four children and eleven grandchildren. Currently she lives in San Antonio, Texas and Woody Creek, Colorado.