Commissioner Fowkes was appointed to the RCOC Board in January 2011. The owner of Sealtite Company is a former Milford Village councilman and Council president.

He is a former member of the Huron Valley Chamber of Commerce Board, a member of the Oakland County Food Service Appeals Board and a former member of the Michigan Municipal League’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

As a Milford Village Council member, Commissioner Fowkes served for three years on the steering committee for the Road Commission’s West Oakland Corridor Study that reviewed traffic patterns and issues in western Oakland County in 2000 through 2002. Commissioner Fowkes also served on the Milford Parks and Recreation Commission and the Milford Village Tree Board.

He is a graduate of Schoolcraft College.