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Larry Leasure

Board Member

Bio

Mr. Leasure provides overall direction, supervision, and management of the Women Erased Foundation, a non-profit foundation created to combat the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/People (MMIW/P). He is the Co-Founder and President of Ride to the Wall Foundation, a non-profit foundation supporting homeless and disabled veterans and other worthy veteran causes.

After 50 years, he has recently retired from the Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands (IFPL) where he had served as a Board Member and past Vice President, and from the Board of Regents at University of the Pacific (Stockton CA) after 9 years of service. Larry has previously served as Board Member and Senior Vice President/President Elect at the University of the Pacific Alumni Association, Director of many civic organizations including the Boise Area Chamber of Commerce, the Silver Sage Council of Girl Scouts of America and the Boise Philharmonic, President and Campaign Chairman of the Snake River United Way (Caldwell ID), President of United Way of Ada County (ID), President of the Boise Gallery of Art, Founding Board Member of the Boise Area Economic Development Council, and Founding Board Member of St. Alphonsus Hospital Foundation.

When he is not serving his community, Larry serves as Chairman and CEO of White-Leasure Development Company, which he co-founded in 1972. Throughout his real estate career he has specialized in the acquisition of land and development for major mixed-use projects including shopping centers, major historical building renovations, and other commercial, industrial, office, and residential projects. Prior to his association with White-Leasure, he served in several executive positions with the College of Idaho and the University of the Pacific. He holds a Bachelors Degree in music from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, a Master’s Degree in Speech from the University of the Pacific, and did Graduate work at San Francisco State College.

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