Trustees, Directors & Council

Trustees | Alumni Board | President's Council

Board of Trustees

Jessica Allison ’08
   Young Trustee, graduate student, Southern College of Optometry, Memphis
Steven C. Anderson ’75
   President/CEO, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Alexandria, VA
John Bickel ’66
   Attorney and Senior Vice President, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, Cedar Rapids, IA
Gilda Vinzulis Boyer ’84
   Attorney, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll (retired), Cedar Rapids, IA
Charles Bray ’58
   Business Entrepreneur, Minneapolis
Peter S. Bryant, Honorary Alumnus
   Senior Vice President & Principal, Noel Levitz, Coralville, IA
Rudy V. Byron ’92
   Physician, All Saints Medical Group, Racine, WI
Mildred Eubanks Carstensen ’66
   Ed D., Lecturer, Researcher & Higher Education Policy Consultant, Bloomfield, CT
Thomas L. Cox ’52
   VP & CFO, Illinois Bell Telephone (retired), Lincolnshire, IL
Lawrence D. Dorr ’63
   Medical Director, Arthritis Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles
Thomas C. Durham ’77
   Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago
Neil E. Eckles ’62
   President, Comtech Resources, Blue Earth, MN
Jeffrey J. Jensen ’81
   CEO, National Motor Club of America Inc., Irving, TX
Judy Hesler Jorgensen ’60
   Dean of Academic Support (retired), Waukesha County Technical College, Pewaukee, WI
Frances Kao ’85
   Attorney, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Chicago
Linda Webb Koehn ’66
   Community Volunteer, West Des Moines, IA
Stuart K. Lehr ’71
   Radiologist, Iowa Radiology, Des Moines, IA
John D. McGrane ’73
   Partner, Morgan Lewis, Washington, D.C.
Robert McLennan ’65
   President/CEO, Beacon Management Company, Wheeling, IL
Edward G. Meads ’67
   Senior Vice President of National Sales, Welvie, Minneapolis
Jessica Morton ’09
   Young Trustee, graduate student, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Dean A. Riesen ’79
   Partner, Rimrock Capital Partners, Phoenix
Jerry N. Ringer ’59
   Ophthalmologist (retired), Bloomington, IL
Craig Shives ’67
   Attorney, Nyemaster, Goode, West, Hansell & O’Brien, Des Moines, IA
John Smith ’71
   Chairman of the Board, CRST International, Cedar Rapids, IA
Virginia Soper Smith ’73
   Senior Vice President/Deputy General Counsel, Zions Bancorporation, Salt Lake City
Sheryl Atkinson Stoll ’70
   Attorney, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (retired), Columbus, OH
Eli Wade-Scott ’10
   Young Trustee, Chicago, IL
Richard J. Williams ’63
   Partner, Hlustik, Huizenga, Williams & VanderWoude Ltd., Chicago
Robert E. Wilson ’75
   Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Houston

Executive Committee
John Smith, Chair
John McGrane, Chair-elect & Vice-Chair, Business Affairs Policy Committee
Mildred Carstensen, Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs Policy Committee
Sheryl Stoll, Vice-Chair, Enrollment and Student Affairs Policy Committee
Robert McLennan, Vice-Chair, Alumni and College Advancement Policy Committee
Steven Anderson, Secretary
Jonathan Brand, President
Karen Mercer, Treasurer

Life Trustees
Thomas H. Adams ’63
Jean Tapp Beal ’52
Dr. Leo L. Beranek ’36
Ernest J. Buresh
Gilbert X. Drendel ’58
Dr. Robert E. Engel ’55
Thomas L. Jarom ’66
Dr. John S. Koch ’50
Peter Paul Luce, Honorary Alumnus
Kendall Meyer ’65
Merrill K. Pulliam ’34
Robert W. Slater ’60
Richard P. Small ’50
H. Lee Swanson ’60
Dr. Keith E. Thayer ’51
Charles F. Warden ’41

Honorary Trustees
Merlin “Pat” Dreibelbis ’39
Ann MacGregor
Norma Small, Honorary Alumna

Alumni Association Board of Directors

Allan Ruter ’76, President
Sheila Kruse Boyce ’85, President-elect
Richard McKeen ’55
Kathryn Falb Gutz ’57 
Daniel Wilson ’66
Linda Spies Schilling ’69
Lee Schmudde ’72
Peg Sellen Dana ’73
Deborah Stewart Bowman ’74
Jerry Gale ’74 
Mark Dohnalek ’82
Janet Lansing Murphy ’83
Tim Wynes ’83  
Andrea Herrera ’85 
Lynn Ross Cope ’87 
Mary Jo Huebner ’88 
Anna-Doretta Dilley Riley ’90 
Kanesha Lee Baynard ’94
Jennifer Albrecht ’98
Mary Elliott ’98
Mark Hudson ’99 
Derek Johnson ’04 
Molly Klokkenga ’08
Matt Pilger ’09 
Jeffrey Flug ’10
Natashia Pierce ’11

President’s Council

Jonathan Brand, President
James Brown, Honorary Alumnus, Special Assistant to the President
Joseph Dieker, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
John Harp, Vice President for Student Affairs
Karen Mercer, Vice President for Business Affairs
Jonathan Stroud, Vice President for Enrollment and Dean of Admission
Peter Wilch ’94, Vice President for Alumni and College Advancement