Sheppard Root - Treasurer and Parker Water Customer

Sheppard Root is a publicly elected director and Treasurer of the Board of Directors. Shep was reelected in May of 2008 to his third term as a director of the Parker Water and Sanitation District in Parker, CO. He is a Bradbury Ranch resident who supervises teams of explosive detection officers for the Department of Homeland Security at Denver International Airport. Shep Root is past Chairman, past Vice-Chair and past Secretary of the district.



At a Red Sea refugee camp near Port Sudan in 1977 he committed himself to a thirty-three year course of public service in hunger mitigation, affordable housing, safety of life and the arts. NOAH (Neighbors Organized for Adequate Housing), an organization he co-founded in rural Belle Glade, Florida, had its success acknowledged on the front page of the New York Times and was honorably correlated to Edward R. Murrow's 1960 "Harvest of Shame" documentary.

Shep Root was recruited to sit on the executive committee that founded Douglas County’s housing authority, the Douglas County Housing Partnership, whose name he provided. He also sat on the executive committee that oversaw creation of the long range cultural plan for the future of Douglas County, Colorado.

He was an appointed Cultural Commissioner for the Town of Parker for seven years. He is the founder and creator of Halloween with Horses, Parker's unique family cultural festival produced for ten years at the Colorado Horse Park and attended by more than 50,000 visitors. Shep served four years as a fielded member of Douglas County Search and Rescue and was a Victim's Advocate for the Parker Police Department. 

He was an international racing sailor, a winner of the Hong Kong to Manila, South China Sea Race and the Hong Kong to Macao Race. He also set a world record voyaging his thirty-nine foot motor yacht China Blue 20,000 miles from Hong Kong to the United States across the China Sea, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Suez, Mediterranean and Atlantic. 



Shep holds a Master of International Management degree, an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree in International Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology, Workplace Psychology.



Sheppard Root says, “I'm the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter whose grandmother was a Newlin. The Newlins were among the first pioneer settlers in Parker, Colorado in the nineteenth century. Parker Water and Sanitation District's 72,000 acre-foot Rueter-Hess Reservoir and Frank Jaeger Dam are being constructed in Newlin Gulch, named for her family.”



"So, for me, I feel a strong and personal connection that goes back in time more than a century into the past and forward more than a century into the future to a time when Parker residents will still be enjoying the benefits of Parker Water’s vision, planning and resolve."