James Steven (“Steve”) Glass earned an MS in Biology and Environmental Science from NM State University in 1976. After graduation, Steve held environmental virology research positions for ten years in Los Angeles (CA), Chapel Hill (NC) and Las Cruces (NM). Between 1989 and 2009, Steve worked with the City of Albuquerque, and subsequently with the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, managing programs in regulatory compliance, environmental laboratory, biosolids composting, and constructed wetlands research. In 2009, Steve joined Bernalillo County as Water Resources Planner managing the stormwater quality permit compliance program, until his retirement in 2011. As a post-retirement endeavor, Steve has since 2010 been a part-time faculty member at the Central New Mexico Community College, teaching classes in biology and environmental science. Steve has served as Chair of the Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) Board for twenty-six years and has also represented seven SWCDs on the NM Soil and Water Conservation Commission since his gubernatorial appointment in 2013. For ten years, beginning in 2003, Steve represented local governments on the NM Water Quality Control Commission by gubernatorial appointment, as well as representing the Water Utility Authority on the Municipal Environmental Quality Association Board. In addition to previously representing Bernalillo County for twelve years on the interagency Water Protection Advisory Board, Steve has served since 2012 On the Mid-Region Council of Governments Water Resources Board. Steve has also been a member of the Bernalillo County Open Space Master Naturalists Program Advisory Committee since its inception in 2009 and has also served seven years as President of the Open Space Alliance, a non-profit friends group supporting the Albuquerque Open Space Division. In 2021, Steve joined the Board of Directors for the Bosque Ecological Monitoring Program, which he has long supported.