Kim Okragly Prill

Kim started with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Billings, Montana, as a GS-01 high school student intern program, and continued working for BLM while attending college and offered a permanent position at the Montana/Dakotas State Office upon graduation. Prill’s federal career spans over 35 years, serving in a wide variety of capacities, leadership roles and opportunities to work on special initiatives/projects to advance the important multiple use mission and work of the agency.

Prior to Prill’s temporary acting assignment as Acting Idaho State Director, she serves as Associate State Director for BLM Nevada. Prill’s previous leadership positions include Deputy State Director for Energy, Minerals and Realty for Montana/Dakotas BLM, Branch Chief for Realty, Lands and Renewable Energy; and Acting District Manager for Eastern Montana/Dakotas District in Miles City, and served as Congressional Fellow to the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee in Washington D.C. Prill also worked for the Bureau of Reclamation – Great Plains Region and then returning to BLM.

Born and raised in Montana, Prill grew up on a working cattle ranch at the base of the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains, moving to Billings to finish high school and attend Rocky Mountain College and Montana State University-Billings where she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Kim has three adult children (two sons and a daughter) and enjoys rockhounding, writing and painting.