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Board of Trustees

Meet our board of trustees. Our board has ultimate responsibility for the advancement of our mission. It approves our mission, convictions, strategic priorities, key policies, budgets and major initiatives, and it exercises ongoing fiduciary oversight to assure alignment between our mission and operations, to keep St. Thomas moving in the right direction.

  • Jodeen A. Kozlak '85, Board Chair

    Founder & Chief Executive Officer
    Kozlak Capital Partners, LLC

  • James P. Kolar '84, Board Vice Chair

    Former PWC Board Member and Central Market Managing Partner
    PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

  • Philip E. Soran, Board Vice Chair

    Former CEO
    Compellent Technologies

  • John N. Allen

    Chief Executive Officer
    Industrial Equities, LLP

  • Lisa S. Anderson '83

    Schoeneckers Foundation

  • Ashley Bailey-Chang '12

    Associate Attorney
    DLA Piper LLP (US)

  • Archie C. Black

    Chief Executive Officer
    SPS Commerce

  • Kathlene Holmes Campbell

    Chief Executive Officer
    National Center for Teacher Residencies Company

  • Andrew J. Cecere '82

    Chairman, President & CEO
    U.S. Bancorp

  • Michael V. Ciresi '68

    Founding Partner
    Ciresi Conlin LLP

  • Reverend Dennis J. Dease '72

    President Emeritus
    University of St. Thomas

  • Mark C. Dienhart, Ph.D. '75

    President and CEO
    Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation

  • Michael E. Dougherty '66

    Chairman
    Dougherty Financial Group LLC

  • Andrew S. Duff

    Retired Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
    Piper Sandler

  • Timothy P. Flynn '79

    Former Chairman (Retired)
    KPMG International

  • Carol Frey Wolfe '83

    Director
    Frey Foundation Board

  • Geoffrey C. Gage '97

    President & Owner
    Geoffrey Carlson Gage Branding and Communications

  • James P. Gearen '83

    President
    Gearen Holdings Inc.

  • Amy R. Goldman

    CEO and Chair
    GHR Foundation

  • Katharine Anderson Groethe

    President
    KG North American Import & Distribution

  • Sr. Mary M. Haddad '08

    President & Chief Executive Officer
    Catholic Health Association

  • David J. John '88

    Managing Director
    ASC Trust

  • Virginia Hubbard Morris '85

    Chair & Chief Executive Officer
    Hubbard Radio

  • David Juran '88

    President & CEO
    Colliers Mortgage Holdings

  • Paul L. Karon '85

    Former CEO & Chairman
    Benfield, Inc.

  • Robert D. Kelly, Ph.D.

    President
    University of Portland

  • William P. Lentsch '96 MBA

    Chief Operating Officer
    Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

  • Reverend Edward A. Malloy

    President Emeritus
    University of Notre Dame

  • Reverend John M. Malone '67

    Pastor Emeritus
    Church of the Assumption

  • John M. Morrison

    Chairman
    Central Financial Services, Inc.

  • Stephen P. Nachtsheim '67

    Former Director & Past Chairman
    Deluxe Corporation

  • Rory J. O'Neill '86

    CEO & Managing Partner
    Castlelake, L.P.

  • Patrick G. Ryan '75

    Chairman
    Ryan Companies US, Inc.

  • Debbra L. Schoneman '96

    Managing Director, President
    Piper Sandler

  • Ann Sempowski Ward

    Chief Executive Officer
    CURiO Brands

  • Rob Vischer

    President
    University of St. Thomas

  • Brian D. Wenger

    Founder, CEO
    Radius Living

  • Ann L. Winblad '75

    Former Managing Director and Founding Partner
    Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

  • The Honorable Wilhelmina M. Wright

    U.S. District Judge
    District of Minnesota

  • Mark A. Zesbaugh '86

    President
    Entrepreneurial 180