Governor Geringer was first elected as Wyoming’s 30th governor in 1994 and completed his second term in January 2003. During his time in office Geringer focused on improving education through standards, accountability and technology, modernized economic planning to extensively include technology, changed how natural resource agencies among state, federal and local governments worked together, implemented strategic planning tied to performance based budgeting and when he left office, provided Wyoming state government with a budget surplus, one of very few states to make that claim early in 2003.

His interests in technology issues include chair of the National Governors Association Technology Task Force, participation in the Policy Roundtable at the 1999 National GeoData Forum, appointment to the GeoSpatial One Stop Board of Directors, appointment to the Mapping Sciences Committee under the National Academy of Sciences, establishment of the Western GIS Council and presidential appointee to the Western Interstate Energy Board.

Geringer’s advocacy for technology has centered on the end result of how technology enhances services, emphasizing the benefits of integrated service delivery and enterprise-wide solutions. That advocacy led Jim to join Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in the summer of 2003 as Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies.

Governor Geringer and his wife Sherri have five children and nine grandchildren. They reside once again in Wheatland, Wyoming.