Pam is a Certified Association Executive currently serving as Paddlesports Trade Coalition staff under a service agreement with NASBLA. Pamela Dillon previously staffed the National Boating Education Standards Panel and the Education Committee. She co-authored the Third Edition of “The Guide for Multiple Use Waterway Management.” With her husband, Virgil Chambers, she is Program Co-Manager of the Inland Boat Operation and Marine Patrol Fundamentals Train-the-Trainer course and Methods of Instructor course under NASBLA’s Boat Operation and Training (BOAT) program.

Previously, Dillon served as boating law administrator for the state of Ohio, retiring in 2011 as chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Watercraft. Dillon served as executive director of the American Canoe Association from 2002-2007. In addition, Dillon served two terms as an appointed member of the National Boating Safety Advisory Council is a recipient of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Distinguished Public Service Award.

Virgil has served on several committees of the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators ‘including the (NASBLA) Recreational Boating Professional Certification (RBPC) Commission where he was chair. He is the co-program manager, with his wife Pamela Dillon, of the Inland Boat Operation and Marine Patrol Training Program. He is Director-Emeritus of the National Safe Boating Council (NSBC), having served as executive director from 1996 through 2013. During his leadership he instituted the Wear It Campaign and the Boat Control training program. He was also one of the founding fathers and Program Chair of the International Boating and Water Safety Summit (IBWSS). Virgil retired from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission in 1995 where he was the Chief of Boating Safety Education. While there, he developed Pennsylvania’s public-school boating and water safety program. He also established the Pennsylvania Water Rescue program, one of the first recognized water rescue training programs for fire and rescue service personnel nationwide. He is published and widely recognized for his numerous contributions to boating and water safety. Virgil is the recipient of over fifty different prestigious awards from a number of national and international organizations, and has been inducted into Pennsylvania’s Swimming Hall of Fame as well as the National Boating Safety Hall of Fame. Upon his retirement in 2013 was awarded the US Coast Guard’s Meritorious Public Service Medal for his contributions to the Recreational Boating Safety program. While in the U.S. Navy he served aboard a patrol craft in the Rivers of Vietnam where he was decorated for his actions in combat situations. He was also in the Army National Guard where he was certified and trained as an air-traffic controller.

Major John Fetterman was hired by NASBLA in January 2010 as the association’s first Law Enforcement Director. In this capacity, Fetterman worked to integrate and coordinate law enforcement programs within NASBLA and to improve the nonprofit organization’s law enforcement program value to its members through education and consulting services. Fetterman and his team launched NASBLA’s Boat Operations and Training Program (BOAT) in April of 2010, NASBLA to date has trained over 20,000 federal, state, local and tribal maritime law enforcement officers and maritime response professionals. In addition to Administration and oversight of the BOAT Program, Major Fetterman provides Governmental Affairs coordination for NASBLA, staffs the NASBLA Enforcement and Training Committee, the NASBLA BOAT Advisory Board and is the CEO for the Life Jacket Association.

On March 13, 2014, John was promoted to Deputy Executive Director.

Before joining the NASBLA staff, Fetterman, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, worked for the Maine Bureau of Marine Patrol for 32 years. He began his career with the Maine agency in 1977 as a field officer. Much of his career with the Marine Patrol was spent as chief pilot, flying some 12,000 hours in multiple aircraft. In non-flight duties, Major Fetterman also supervised the Bureau’s Special Services where he focused on safety programs within both the recreational and commercial boating communities. In 2001 he was promoted to Deputy Chief and served as the Coastal Boating Law Administrator for the state of Maine until December 2009.

Fetterman joined NASBLA’s Executive Board as a member-at-large in 2005-06, then led NASBLA as president in 2007-08. Fetterman also served as vice chair of NASBLA’s new Homeland Security Committee in 2004, and as the committee chair in 2005. In June 2006, he was appointed to the U.S. Coast Guard National Boating Safety Advisory Council, where he served two three-year terms and in 2012 he was appointed to a 3 year term on the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee.

Deputy Director Fetterman and his wife, Cathy, live in Ellsworth, Maine, and have four grown and married children and seven grandchildren.