Board of Trustees Roster

The Foundation is governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees, a broadly representative group of community leaders. Trustees are elected for three-year terms and may serve three full terms. The Board is responsible for setting Foundation policy, approving all grant awards, and for hiring investment managers to implement the Board's investment policy.

2012 Board of Trustees

Officers

Sam Davis, Chair
Jail Administrator, Ingham County Sheriff's Office

Robert Kolt, Chair-Elect
CEO/President, Kolt Communications, Inc.

Kira Carter-Robertson, Secretary
President and CEO, Sparrow Specialty Hospital

Denise Schroeder, Treasurer
Director, Alerus Retirement Solutions

Trustees

John Abbott
President, Summit Community Bank

Diana Rodriguez Algra
Executive Director, Volunteer Centers of Michigan

Mark Alley
Senior Director of Global Protective Services and Public Affairs, Emergent Biosolutions, Inc.

Charles Blockett, Jr.
President, Charles Blockett, Jr. & Associates

April M. Clobes
COO, MSU Federal Credit Union

Nancy A. Elwood
Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch

Tina Ferland
CPA/Partner, Plante & Moran, PLLC

Vincent J. Ferris
President, Custom Home Interiors, Inc.

Bo Garcia
Director of Strategic Planning & Economic Development, Lansing Community College

Pat Gillespie
President, Gillespie Group

Andy Hopping
Former Executive Vice President/CFO, Jackson National Life Insurance Company

Joan Jackson Johnson
Director, Human Relations and Community Service Department, City of Lansing

David Kositchek
Owner, Kositchek's

Nancy L. Little
Attorney, Bernick, Omer, Radner & Ouellette

Dorothy E. Maxwell
President and CEO, Max Weingar Group

Helen Mickens
Professor & Associate Dean of Community Relations, Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Douglas A. Mielock
Attorney/Shareholder, Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, PC

Michael Nobach
Managing Director, Clinton County Road Commission (Ret.)

Brian Priester
President and Publisher, Lansing State Journal

Robert L. Trezise, Jr.
President and CEO, Leap, Inc.

Carmen Turner
President, Boys and Girls Club of Lansing

Steven Webster
Chair and CEO, Prima Civitas Foundation

Maddie Brogan, Student Trustee
Lansing Catholic High School Student

Alexandra Hopping, Student Trustee-Elect
Okemos High School Student

Past Board Chairs

Douglas Milbury
Marylee Davis, Ph.D.
Joseph Frauenheim
James F. Anderton, IV
J. Michael Warren
Patricia Munshaw
Dale Martin
Gerald Finch
Robert C. Carr
Lori Hacker Fuller
Ed Souders
Lawrence Wilhite
George Nugent
Charles A. Janssen
Mark Hooper
Suzanne B. Mills
David J. Donovan
Charles Blockett, Jr.
Mary J. Schafer
Mark Alley
Nancy L. Little
Douglas A. Mielock

Staff Members

Dennis W. Fliehman, President and CEO
Richard Comstock, Vice President of Finance
Robin Miner-Swartz, Director of Communications
Pauline Pasch, Senior Program Officer
Traci Goulding, Executive Assistant
Lisa Levandowski, Finance Associate
Ashley Gulker, YAC Advisor