State Council

State Council

The State Council Members for the Colorado Mountain Club

MEETING MINUTES

Julie Jacobsen

State Council Member (Pikes Peak Group)

Julie has been serving various non-profit organizations through her company Panorama Events with event management and project management services.  When she’s not diving into details and logistics, Julie enjoys spending time outdoors with her friends and dogs.  Before joining the CMC in 2021, outdoor activities revolved around hiking and backpacking.  Thanks to the CMC, her new favorites are rock-climbing, ice-climbing and canyoneering.  Along with meeting new friends with like-minded interests, learning new skill sets has been a huge benefit of the CMC. 

Lynn Clay

State Council Member (Northern Colorado Group)

Phil Lakin

CMC board liaison 

Phil Lakin, Jr., has served as CEO of Tulsa Community Foundation since 1999 and as a Tulsa City Councilor since 2011. Phil is a proud Baylor University graduate, where he earned both his BBA and MBA.

Lakin has summited every 14er in the contiguous United States, as well as Cotopaxi, the Matterhorn, and Grand Teton. He has served the mountaineering community as treasurer of the American Alpine Club and currently serves as treasurer of The Juniper Fund.

Phil and his wife, Adriane, have been married for 31 years and have three sons. He has attended the last 43 Indy 500 races, a tradition he began with his father and has since shared with his grandfather and all three of his sons.

Hannah Korrell

State Council Member (Denver Group)

Hannah is a former physician and graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine who returned to her native Colorado in 2024. Her medical career honed her skills in leadership, teaching, and nuanced communication, which she now brings to CMC. With a deep commitment to living a life connected to the outdoors, she quickly became involved with the Club. After taking a wide range of CMC courses, particularly through the Technical Climbing Section, she now serves as a Technical Trip Leader and instructor for Winter Camping School, Alpine Climbing School, and technical climbing courses, helping members build self-reliance and confidence.

Eager to contribute to CMC's continued success, Hannah joined the Denver Group Council in April 2026 and soon became its representative to the State Council. As a State Council representative, she seeks to strengthen connections between members, volunteers, and Club leadership, helping those who make CMC's mission possible have a meaningful voice in its success and future.

Anne Keil

state council member (Western slope group)

Anne has been a Denver CMC member and trip leader since 1999 and taken multiple CMC schools. She led hiking, biking, camping, snowshoeing and downhill skiing trips and has written articles for Trail and Timberline. Anne moved to the Western Slope in 2018 and loves exploring the desert to the mountains without all the crowds. She served as the Western Slope Group (WSG) Vice Chair from 2020 to 2022, and since has served as the Chair and the Outings Chair for the WSG.

Jacqueline Hooper

state council member (El Pueblo Group)

Jacqueline has been a El Pueblo Group (EPG) CMC member for 8 years. Early in her career, she worked in higher education for 17 years including teaching and serving in upper administration. Later in her career, she worked in nursing for 16 years, retiring in 2021 from full time practice as a family nurse practitioner with continuing to work part-time as a nurse practitioner since retirement.  She has been fortunate to have been able to apply her teaching, administrative, and medical background to contributions she has made to CMC.  Although Jacqueline originally joined EPG to find a group in the Pueblo area to hike with, her involvement evolved to: becoming a Trip Leader and leading once a month+ hikes for EPG, being a co-leader for EPG and Denver hikes, collaborating with the Pikes Peak Group (PPG) to offer joint PPG-EPG hikes; learning new skills in other outdoor adventures including snowshoeing, XC-skiing, canyoneering, scrambling, rappelling, and backpacking; adopting a love of summit hikes especially 13ers; traveling internationally to hike; becoming involved in EPG governance including serving as Secretary, Vice President and now as the Chair of the group; assisting with organizing a Wilderness First Aid course in Pueblo and Colorado Springs to provide Trip Leaders a convenient location to maintain required certification; serving as a Leader-In-Training Mentor Leader for EPG; and being awarded CMC Volunteer of the Month recognition.

Lisa Paige

state council member (Roaring Fork Group)

Candace Winkle

state council member (Gore Range Group)

Candace received her M.S. in Geology in Wisconsin, then moved to Colorado to work and play in the mountains.  When the oil business tanked in the 80’s, she redirected her career to IT project management.  Always enthusiastic about the outdoors, she discovered and joined the CMC in 2004 and within a few years started leading trips for the Denver Group.  In her quest for Colorado’s highest 100 peaks, she led mostly peak-bagging day and backpack trips - so many that the CMC recognized her with an award.  In 2009 she moved to Summit County and later transferred to the Gore Range Group, where she currently leads hiking, backpacking, snowshoe and various types of ski trips.  She loves traveling and finding new places for her activities.  Other volunteer work includes past director and president positions on her local water district and HOA Boards.

Jason Kintzel

State Council Member (Boulder Group)

Jason was introduced to the CMC in 1996 by Prof. Kurt Gerstle of the CU Boulder Civil Engineering Department. He's taken and taught many of the classes that Boulder offers including BMS back when it was an 8+ week long commitment. He became the caretaker of the Brainard Lake Cabin in 2005, and have also taken on the roles of Cabins Chair, Treasurer, Forest Service rep, and now Chair of the Boulder Group (and State Council rep). He lives in Longmont with his wife of 21 years with our four kids aged 17, 14, 14, & 14 (not a typo).