Trustees, Directors & Council

Trustees | Alumni Board | President's Council

Board of Trustees

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
Peter S. Bryant
   Senior Vice President and Principal, Noel Levitz, Coralville, IA
Mildred Eubanks Carstensen ’66
   Ed.D.; Lecturer, Researcher & Higher Education Policy Consultant; Bloomfield, CT
Kyle Davy ’11
   Young Trustee, Account Executive, Iowa Energy Basketball, Des Moines, IA
Thomas C. Durham ’77
   Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago
Loren Hiratzka ’66
   Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Cincinnati, OH
Jeffrey J. Jensen ’81
   CEO, National Motor Club of America, Inc., Irving, TX
Maureen Johnson ’87
   Vice President, Tax, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, Inc., New York
Judy Hesler Jorgensen ’60
   Dean of Academic Support, Waukesha County Technical College, (retired), Pewaukee, WI
Frances Kao ’85
   Attorney, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom, (retired) Chicago
Linda Webb Koehn ’66
   Community Volunteer, West Des Moines, IA
Stuart K. Lehr ’71
   Radiologist, Iowa Radiology, Des Moines, IA
Lynn Luce Kitt ’91
   Philanthropist; Community Volunteer, Denver
John D. McGrane ’73
   Partner, Morgan Lewis, Washington, DC
Robert McLennan ’65
   President/CEO, Beacon Management Company, Wheeling, IL
Edward G. Meads ’67
   Senior Vice President of National Sales, Welvie, Hudson, WI
Jessica Morton ’09
   Young Trustee, University of Iowa Law School, Iowa City, IA
Dean A. Riesen ’79
   Partner, Rimrock Capital Partners, Phoenix
Jerry N. Ringer ’59
   Ophthalmologist (retired), Bloomington, IL
Jean Russell ’65
   Faculty Member and Researcher, Washington University in St. Louis (retired), Pentwater, MI
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
John Urheim ’62
   Vice Chairman/CEO (retired), Atrix Laboratories, Fort Collins, CO
Eli Wade-Scott ’10
   Young Trustee, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Richard J. Williams ’63
   Partner, Hlustik, Huizenga, Williams & VanderWoude, Ltd., Chicago
Robert E. Wilson ’75
   Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Houston

Executive Committee
John McGrane, Chair
Mildred Carstensen, Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs Policy Committee
John Smith, Immediate Past-Chair & Vice-Chair, Alumni and College Advancement Policy Committee
Gilda Boyer, Vice-Chair, Business Affairs Policy Committee
Richard Williams, Vice-Chair, Enrollment and Student Affairs Policy Committee
Dean Riesen, At-Large
Thomas Durham, 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
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

Sheila Kruse Boyce ’85, President
Richard McKeen ’55
Kathryn Falb Gutz ’57 
Harris (Tim) DeLong ’69
Lee Schmudde ’72
Margaret (Peg) Sellen Dana ’73
Deborah Stewart Bowman ’74
Jerry Gale ’74 
Allan Ruter ’76
Mark Dohnalek ’82
Janet Lansing Murphy ’83
Timothy Wynes ’83 
Eileen Quigley ’84
Andrea Herrera ’85 
Paul Hutchison ’87
Lynn Ross Cope ’87 
MJ Huebner ’88 
Kanesha Lee Baynard ’94
Andrew Briscoe ’96
Jennifer Albrecht ’98
Isaiah McGee ’01
Derek Johnson ’04 
Matthew Pilger ’09 
Jeffrey Flug ’10
Natashia Pierce ’11
Hattie Wagner ’12

President’s Council

Jonathan Brand, President
James Brown, Interim Vice President for Enrollment and Dean of Admission and Special Assistant to the President
Joseph Dieker, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Pamela Gerard, Vice President for Alumni and College Advancement
John Harp, Vice President for Student Affairs
Karen Mercer, Vice President for Business Affairs