Mike Rutherford - President

Mike is the President of Rutherford Diversified Industries, Inc., a General Engineering Contractor currently engaged in fiber optic and outside plant construction in seven western states. Mike is also a partner in Groth, Rutherford & Scott, LLC, which has several office buildings in Sierra Vista. In 2015, he built the Cochise Family Advocacy Center Lori's Place in Sierra Vista. He is the Past President of the Southeastern Arizona Contractors Association and is currently Treasurer. He is also the President of the Arizona Folklore Preserve Board of Directors, located in Ramsey Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains, which provides live music 40+ weekends a year.

In 2009, The American Business Defense and Advisory Council, by Newt Gingrich, awarded Mike the Entrepreneur of the Year award for the State of Arizona.

In 2015, The Arizona Hall of Fame Society awarded Mike the Copper Eagle Award for "outstanding patriotism and a unique combination of leadership and compassion whose actions warrant high recognition for services rendered to the Arizona veteran's community."

His company built the Historical Soldier Relocation Project. This is a "period" cemetery within the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery where victims of the Civil War battle at Picacho Peak, Arizona, are interred.

In 2019, his company built the Gold Star Mothers monument in the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Sierra Vista.