DeHart, Michele (Michele Claudette), 1950-
Biographical note
Michele Claudette DeHart, nee Navant, was born in Marseilles, France, in 1950. Around 1955, she moved with her mother to the United States. In 1972, she earned a bachelor’s degree in fish biology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She worked as a stream surveyor for the Washington Department of Fisheries, and as a biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service, now known as NOAA Fisheries. In 1987, she became manager for the Fish Passage Center in Portland, Oregon.
She married twice, first to David R. Anderson in 1972. They divorced in 1975, and she remarried, to Douglas A. DeHart, in 1981.
Sources: Vital records in Ancestry.com; Information provided by DeHart in her interview; Declaration of Michele DeHart, in DeHart, Berggren, Filardo, Benner and Franzoni v. Bonneville Power Administration, Civil No. 06-369-HA, September 4, 2007 (accessed December 2025), https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/attachments/06_16_3_dehart.pdf
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Oral history interview with Michele DeHart
Oral history interview with Michele DeHart, conducted by Clark Hansen on December 11, 1998, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. DeHart discusses her work as a fish biologist and as manager of the Fish Passage Center in Portland, Oregon, and talks about fish conservation measures in the Columbia River Basin.