Bridgett Luther

Bridgett Luther has served as president of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute since its inception in 2010. From 2005-2010, she was director of the California Department of Conservation — appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

As president of the Institute, Bridgett leads both the administration of the Cradle to Cradle CertifiedCM Products Program and advocacy of its adoption by designers, manufacturers, major brands, and their suppliers worldwide.

Ms. Luther also an active member of Canada’s National Zero Waste Council, and the U.S. EPA’s National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology.

During her tenure in Governor Schwarzenegger’s administration, Bridgett oversaw a budget of $1.4 billion and 700 employees in 14 offices around California. She was responsible for a wide variety of programs, including the California beverage container recycling program, the Land Resource Protection program, which protects California's rich agricultural land and tracks changing land-use patterns, the California Geological Survey, which studies and maps earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes, and the Bureau of Mine Reclamation, which cleans up mines left over from California's Gold Rush days while ensuring the safety of new mines.

Ms. Luther moved to California from Charlotte, North Carolina, where she helped create a nationally recognized recycling education program for Mecklenburg County. She also led a $220 million bond campaign to acquire land to protect the region's water quality, and organized campaigns to create neighborhood parks and ball fields. She helped found the Carolinas office of the Trust for Public Land, one of the nation's largest national land conservation organizations.

Bridgett is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in Business Administration.