Our Board and Committees

Board of Directors

PGE Retirees Inc (non-profit 501 c (4) meets at 9:30 AM on the second Monday every two months: Feb Apr Jun Aug Oct Dec. The Board conducts the Board meetings via ZOOM. As of January 1, 2026, the Board and Committees are listed below. Personal profiles are provided at the bottom of this web page.

Helpful Information for Onboarding New Board Members or Persons with an Interest in Board Membership

Executive Board

President – Greg Rife

Vice President – John McLain

Treasurer – Rick Tetzloff

Assistant Treasurer – Open

Secretary – Open (acting Secretary John McLain)

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Committee Chairs

Blood Drives – Stan Chiotti * Find Blood Drives near you at redcrossblood.org

Communications – Terry Clelen, Ed Gorman

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Communications Sub Committees

Facebook Administration – Mark Lander, Terry Clelen, Roger Gibson, Ed Gorman

Website Administration – Ed Gorman

Website Calendar – Terry Clelen (Interest Groups), Ed Gorman

Plugged In Newsletter – Editor and Hard Copy Distribution – John McLain; Digital Distribution – Ed Gorman

PGERetirees@gmail.com – Terry Clelen, Ed Gorman

Mailchimp Management – Ed Gorman, Terry Clelen

Board Members

Terms End 2026

Ed Gorman

Terry Clelen

MinhHang Tran

Steve West

Jay Tinker (currently on leave/loaned to PGE Corporate)

Terms End 2027

Stan Chiotti

John McLain

Greg Rife

Cece Coleman

Patti Lama

Terms End 2028

Rick Tetzloff

Sham Beri

Carolyn Kerr

Open

Emeritus Board Members

An Emeritus Board Member has been on the Board for at least 10 years and has been a Committee Chair or on the Executive Board.

Norby Chartrey

Chick Colby

Jim Den

Judy Francis

Darlene Judkins

Terry Judkins

Tom Kreis

Ed Miska

Greg RifePresident, Communications Committee member

I started at PGE on June 27, 1983 shortly after graduating from Oregon State University. During my 37 year career I held various positions in PGE’s planning, forecasting, accounting, and financial reporting functions. I completed my career managing Ethics and Compliance before retiring on October 2, 2020. I enjoy golf, photography, and scuba diving. I am also an active member of PGE’s golf league and amateur radio club.

John McLainSecretary (Acting Vice President), Communications Committee member, Newsletter Editor

From 1968-1981, I served in Marine Corp, worked at SCE on line-crews, married my sweetheart, graduated from college, transferred to accounting department, and became a father to my two children. We moved to Oregon to work at PGE 1981-2014 beginning in financial planning, then moving on to many admin and customer programs, went back to school to get an MBA, coached youth soccer, and earned a national soccer coaching license. I am now fully retired, trying to improve at golf, tennis, photography, and music, as well as serving on several non-profit Boards.

Terry ClelenBoard Director, Communications Committee Co-Chair

I was hired in 1997 as a Corporate Communications assistant and moved into Community Affairs a year later. My 21-year career ended in 2018, from what I consider the best job in the company, administering the Company’s community engagement programs. Yes, it was me who relentlessly reminded you to “Record your volunteer hours”, “Apply for a Cause Card” and “Give during the Employee Giving Campaign and apply for the Company match!”
I keep busy with my Neighborhood Emergency Team, sewing masks for Portland Mask Project, serving on the PGE Retiree board and class reunion committees, lunching and taking long “walk and talks” with friends. I enjoy cooking, gardening, babysitting my grandgirls and attempting to improve my golf game. I live in Portland with my husband, John.

Stan ChiottiBoard Director, Past President

My Dad worked for PGE, and I joined PGE on 2/8/1968. I read meters out of the Gresham Division for six months and then moved to the Trojan nuclear project at the Yeon Building. The small staff grew to 1300 over the next 25 years (for me, 20 in operations and 5 in engineering) until plant terminated in 1993. After leaving PGE to work at a Nuclear Plant in New York, I was rehired by PGE in 1997 to help with the decommissioning of the spent fuel rods which ended in 2003, at which time I retired.

MinhHang TranBoard Director, Communications Committee, Pickleball and Tennis Group Leader

Hello there! I had the pleasure of working at PGE for 43 years, from 1978 until I retired in 2021. During my long tenure, I mostly worked in the Records Management Department, where I had the opportunity to support the Trojan Nuclear Plant until its closure. Afterward, I moved downtown and was responsible for Corporate Records Management.
In my free time, I like to keep myself busy by playing tennis and pickleball. I also enjoy exploring the neighborhood’s trails with my husband, Cuong, and making sure I hit my 10,000 steps goal each day. Additionally, cooking is one of my favorite pastimes, as well as spending time with my grandson, Jase. He’s my first and only grandchild so far, but that’s all going to change in March
2024 when Jase becomes a big brother to his twin brother/sister. As for my home, it’s located
in Beaverton

Ed GormanBoard Director, Communications Committee Co-Chair

I began at PGE as a Meter Reader in 1977, enthused by the ability to work outdoors and go home upon completion of the day’s route, usually before noon :<). Following the onset of fatherhood I had to get serious and worked my way to Service and Design as a Service and Design Project Manager. That was a great fit and I retired in 2017 as Service & Design Supervisor at Portland Service Center. These days, among other volunteer opportunities, I am involved with others in managing the digital components of the Retirees Inc. (website, Mailchimp messaging, Retirees private Facebook group).

Steve WestBoard Director, Communications Committee, Book Club Leader

I started my career at PGE’s Oregon City Line Office in 1970 after graduating from Oregon State University. After a couple years of distribution design, I moved to the Yeon building as an engineer in the new Standards Group. When the World Trade Center was completed, I got a major upgrade: A window seat on the fourth floor overlooking the river. With the exception of a couple of years in the distribution planning department, I spent the next 41 years as a Standards Engineer. In addition to the windows seat, I got to meet dozens of suppliers, tour electrical manufacturer factories, and work with employees from all regions. It was a great job.

Jay TinkerBoard Director, Co Treasurer, Communications Committee

Jay has returned to work at PGE for an indeterminate period of time. The Board looks forward to his return to the fold.

Cece ColemanBoard Director, Communications Committee

I’m Cece (pronounced /ˈsi.si/). I’m a JAG Corps veteran, and now, a happily retired attorney. My current focuses are learning Spanish, exploring the beauty of our country and others, and indulging more spontaneity and humor in my life, which I too often suppressed during my working years!
My early years as a JAG Officer taught me that criminal law was not fun, but the experience gained as a litigator prepared me well for the 30+ year legal career I accomplished in the utility industry, with the added bonus of having nice clients! Over the years I have appeared before numerous courts and governmental agencies around the country while representing the interests of the US Government while in Texas and Washington, utility regulators and customers in Oklahoma, and lastly, two electric utility companies in Oregon, beginning in 2004 with PacifiCorp, and then hopping across the Willamette River to PGE from 2007-2022.
In retirement, I’m excited to volunteer my time and effort supporting several non-profit organizations including the PGE Retirees’ organization. I’m enjoying the new and renewed friendships I’m experiencing with PGE retirees who are on the Board and the Communications Committee and look forward to participating in some of the great activities they organize and make accessible to all of us as PGE retirees. I hope to meet more of you as we participate in the fun together! Cheers!

Patti LamaBoard Director; Communications Committee

Patti Lama, Retired Manager of Contract Construction and Program Management at Portland General Electric; 36 years of diversified electrical utility experience.

Working at PGE gave me so much varied experience it is challenging to share the important highlights. Starting off in Nuclear Division sorting mail to launching a national organization that currently has over 3,000 members and serving on that Board for 17 years. The dash between those two highlights encompasses a career filled with discovery, trials, innovations…and yes, some tedium. It was a job, after all.

I worked in several areas of the company over my tenure, Nuclear Division, Generation Construction during Boardman build, Budget Dept, Public Policy and many aspects in the Distribution side of the company including managing garage and storeroom functions to joint use program management and large construction project management. Not only did I get to know a lot of people, but I also saw first hand the importance of each area of the Company working towards the success of the whole.

I am proud to say I spent my 36 year career at PGE and feel our Company afforded me an opportunity to experience accomplishments that I thought were impossible such as writing the Oregon Excavation Law or having my national team’s efforts recognized by the President of the United States. I have been on the podium of the NYSE twice for the opening bell and have experienced flying in a helicopter to check the top of the Trojan stack with engineers. Not bad for a local kid from Sellwood.

Sham BeriBoard Director, Communications Committee

I am an Electrical Engineer, born in New Delhi and have been in the US for 45+ years. I did my graduate school from Western North Carolina and worked as a consulting engineer in Atlanta GA. In the mid-1980s we moved to Iowa and I joined the local nuclear plant as a System Engineer. Within a year I got a rotation into Quality Assurance and that has since been my field!
I’m 1992 I joined PGE’s Trojan Nuclear Plant – which was fully operational at the time – soon to become the manager of Supplier Quality. When Trojan was decommissioned I was retained and continued to support Trojan as well as established Performance Monitoring group at WTC for the global assessments of PGE (non-nuclear) but critical suppliers. I have been to 15+ countries for PGE and performed over 500 assessments domestically and overseas. Until I retired in April 2025, my last year was with Standards Engineering continuing internal and external assessments, root cause analysis and other similar investigations.

Rick TetzloffBoard Director, Treasurer

Rick retired from PGE in August 2024 after 20 years of service in various roles – from senior mechanical engineer in PSES to project manager in Generation Projects, then into management and leading the formation and rapid growth of the Gen-T&D PMO. Rick continues to serve PGE, now from Black & Veatch as a project director for generation and T&D services.

Rick has been married for 33 years; his wife, Stacey, retired in 2025 from teaching. Together, they have two wonderful adult kids – Lauren, 29, is an environmental engineer for a local consulting firm and recently married and lives in Sherwood. Jack, 24, is an accountant for a large firm in Seattle. Rick enjoys racquetball, boating, and skiing. He looks forward to staying connected with the PGE family and cherishes the friendships built over the years.

Carolyn KerrBoard Director, Communications Committee

Carolyn Kerr. Retired from PGE in 2015. My grandfather also worked for PGE in the 50’s at Station L. I started in 1978, part-time, during my senior year of high school in the Documate Dept. processing customer’s payments. I then moved on to many great job opportunities, for which I’m very grateful for. They included administrations for System Engineering and Electrical Maintenance & Construction (EM&C); Specialist for the Project Support Group, IT Helpline Support, IT Project Manager and Contracts Management Specialist. My final two years were as a Supply Chain Specialist.

In retirement, I enjoy many retiree groups: hiking, Mahjong, monthly retiree lunches and Travel Group lunches. I hope to restart with the Book Club in 2026. I enjoy weekly coffee with friends, crafting, and pet sitting for family and friends. I live in Wilsonville and especially treasure time with my son, daughter-in-law and grandson.