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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">July 19, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Gov. Little announces appointments to Fish and Game Commission, Minidoka County Commission<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little announced today the reappointment of
<b>Timothy Murphy</b> and the appointment of <b>Jordan Cheirrett</b> to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Murphy is the current Fish and Game Region 3 commissioner, representing Idahoans in the Southwest region. A McCall resident, Murphy also recently served as chairman of
the commission. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Murphy has a long history of public service, including serving as the former director of the Bureau of Land Management Idaho State Office and Director of Fire and Aviation
at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. He also chaired and was a board member of the Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission and for the Partners Advisory Council to the University of Idaho Rangeland Center. Murphy was also vice president of the Idaho
Environmental Forum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cheirrett, a life-long sportsman and Idaho native, will replace Region 5 Commissioner Lane Clezie, who is retiring. He is a small business owner and Lava Hot Springs
resident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Idaho law requires no more than four commissioners on the seven-member commission to be affiliated with any one political party. Clezie is a registered Republican, as
is Cheirrett. Murphy is unaffiliated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Both commissioners will serve in the appointed position until July 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Governor Little also announced the appointment of
<b>Jared Orton</b> as Minidoka County Commissioner. Orton will replace current District 3 Commissioner Sheryl Koyle, who is retiring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Orton, a Heyburn resident and vice chairman of the Minidoka County Planning and Zoning Commission, recently won the May 2022 Republican primary election. He was set to
run unopposed in the November election. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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