Meet The Department Director

Doyle Childers
Director

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Doyle Childers, confirmed by the Senate as the Director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, is a fifth generation Missourian born on the family farm near Ironton, Missouri, on November 24, l944. He attended Arcadia Valley High School and the College of the Ozarks with graduate work at Southwest Missouri State University. He is married to Sue Goller Childers.

Childers, a former chemistry and physics teacher, farmer, and businessman, served four and one-half years in the United States Peace Corps in Central America. He is also involved in housing construction.

Childers served the 132nd and the 141st District in the Missouri House of Representatives for seven consecutive terms (1982 through l996) and the 29th District in the Missouri State Senate for eight years (1997 through 2004). During his House tenure, Childers served on numerous committees associated with the Department of Natural Resources including the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Budget Committee. In the Senate, he served on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Conservation, Senate Appropriations Committee, Gubernatorial Appointments Committee, Senate Education Committee and as Chairman of the Economic Development, Tourism and Local Government Committee.

During his legislative tenure, the Director served on a variety of joint committees and interim committees involved with Department issues.