Allegiance Board of Directors
Dan Timmons | Board President
Allegiance Ranch was founded by the Timmons family in March 2017. Dan is a Navy veteran whose career was in information technology with an emphasis on supporting scientific research communities. Dan is a fierce advocate for veterans. Dan works on the ranch caring for the horses, making improvements to the property, and brainstorming ways to have a positive impact on veterans and first responders. Dan also hosts the monthly Veteran Muster.
Gloria Timmons | Executive Director
Gloria is a career human resources professional who worked at CU Boulder before retiring in 2014. She currently serves as the Executive Director for Allegiance Ranch while also working as an Executive Recruiter for CPS HR Consulting. The discovery that thousands of horses each year are sent to slaughter drove she and her family to take action. In addition to her passion for horses, Gloria loves her cats, spoiling the miniature donkeys, and tending to her flock of chickens.
Todd Heirls | Board Member
Todd was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, living there until graduation from Kent State University in 1989. Having lived on the shores of Lake Erie and with a Grandmother who owned an Arabian and a Quarter Horse, Todd developed a love of horses. This part of life was put on hold while developing a career in Architecture and moving west with wife Tina and starting a family. Currently the Heirls family consists of wife Tina, daughter Ainsley, and Connor. Todd is a Partner Owner of Arcwest Architects. Having a daughter with a fierce love of horses re-kindled his love of horses as well as the outdoors. Discovering Allegiance Ranch has provided a unique opportunity to provide assistance with the ranch infrastructure, volunteer with the variety of animals, give back to the Veteran Community, and spend quality time with his daughter Ainsley who also volunteers. If Todd had his way, every horse would find its forever home.
Russ McNear | Board Member
Russ was raised in central New York on a dairy farm surrounded by large and small animals. He became familiar with the care of animals and the operation of a large farm. He left for college and participated in Army ROTC while earning a degree in engineering, eventually commissioning into the Active Duty Army as a combat engineer officer. Russ has served overseas in Germany, South Korea, and Romania. He’s also been deployed for two combat tours to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. He is still currently serving for the Army and planning on moving into nonprofit work upon his retirement from the military. Russ and his wife Molly, along with their adopted dogs Teddy Roosevelt and Annie Oakley, fell in love with the mountains in Colorado after meeting Dan and Gloria. They have a passion for rescuing animals and supporting Veterans and hope to help expand animal rescue and Veteran support efforts in Colorado.
Shannon O’Neil | Board Member
A native of St. Augustine, Florida, Shannon brings a lifetime of creativity and communication expertise to her role as a board member for Allegiance Ranch & Equine Rescue. A corporate marketer by day and writer/author by night, Shannon has contributed to a variety of regional and industry publications, as well as penning two novels of her own. She recently relocated to Colorado to embrace mountain living and new adventures, including hiking, fly fishing, and watching concerts in the snow at Red Rocks. When she’s not volunteering, Shannon enjoys exploring the outdoors, cheering on Florida State football, and spending time with her rescue dog, Bailey.
Gavin Hubbard | Veteran Outreach Board Member
Gavin graduated and was commissioned as an Army Logistics Officer out of Michigan State University with a background in finance. During college he helped found Stronger Warrior Foundation in 2019. He started his career at Fort Lee for BOLC, and PCS’d to Fort Carson where he started as a Maintenance Platoon Leader in an Apache Battalion (4-4AB). One year later, prior to deployment to the Middle East, he was brought up to Forward Support Company Executive Officer and Battalion Unit Movement Officer. Gavin is currently a Financial Analyst for Occidental Petroleum. He is also a graduate student at the Colorado School of Mines, studying Mineral and Energy Economics. In his free time, Gavin enjoys bull riding and helps with transportation and sustainment of the bulls and broncs at Ford Rodeo Ranch in Brighton. Gavin became involved with Allegiance Ranch in August 2024 after attending a veteran horsemanship clinic.
Katrina Crouse | First Responder Outreach Board Member
Katrina was born and raised in Lakeland, Florida. After graduating from the University of Central Florida with a B.A. in Criminal Justice she worked as an administrative employee for the U.S. Marshals in Orlando. In 1995 she began her sworn career as a Deputy Sheriff for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. While there she worked in patrol, community policing, as a flight officer in the helicopter program, and eventually became a sex crimes detective. After three years, the U.S. Marshals offered her a deputy position which began her 26 year career. Most of her career with the U.S. Marshals was spent on various fugitive task forces in Florida and Georgia to include an inspector position on the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Atlanta. Also while in Atlanta, she was selected to serve two tours in Baghdad, Iraq assigned to the Major Crimes Task Force in 2009 and 2010. She made her way to Colorado in 2018 when she was selected to rebuild the federal sex offender program for Colorado. She retired in December 2023 in the position of Chief Deputy for the District of Colorado. She has spent her first year of retirement hiking, backpacking, traveling, volunteering for the safety team at Flatirons Community Church and doting on her dogs. She feels privileged to have an opportunity to volunteer at the ranch and values the therapeutic benefits of working with all the animals. She strives to see these benefits expand in the law enforcement community.