Superior Woman--Summer 2020--Final Edition

want to be the U.P. point of contact if there’s an issue. I might not have the
answer, but I usually know who does. I try to connect the dots.”
Much of her work includes being the DNR liaison on the U.P.’s two,
20-member citizen’s advisory councils. The councils provide local input
to the DNR on programs and policies, and identify areas where the
department can be more effective and responsive.
The citizen’s advisory councils came on-line in 2008, the same year
Welling Haughey was hired. And while she may have questioned her
own hiring, once telling then-DNR director Humphries they might have
been the only two people in Michigan who thought her hiring was a good
idea, the woman who hired her didn’t question the move.
“I wanted someone to be my eyes and ears in the U.P. and tell me the
unvarnished truth about what the community felt, both good and bad,”
Humphries said recently from her South Carolina office where she is
CEO of the National Wild Turkey Federation. “Stacy does that in a
very professional way. She’s shown her worth over and over again, and it’s
worked out very well.”
And it has apparently worked well for Welling Haughey.
“I love being able to solve challenges,” she said. “I have a passion for the
U.P. I feel like an advocate for the U.P.”
Meanwhile, since landing with the DNR, Welling Haughey has added
two new job titles in her life: “wife” to her husband, Jared, and “mother”
to two daughters.
While juggling DNR responsibilities across the entire U.P., like most
working mothers, it is the job at home that keeps her focused.
“Being a parent is the best thing I have ever been a part of,” she said. “It’s
fun and it’s crazy. We have an amazing network, and family is a godsend.
My mom helps out two days a week, and my husband is very supportive.
We approach all of it as a team and our girls are priority number one. I
love what I do, I am passionate about my job, but family comes first.”
I love being able to solve challenges.
I have a passion for the U.P.;
“I
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feel like an advocate for the U.P.
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