Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is Macalester’s overall governance body. The board does not actively manage the college on a daily basis but delegates that responsibility to the president. The board’s primary responsibilities are to hire and evaluate the president; set broad policy and goals for the college and evaluate its performance against those goals; actively participate in fund raising and philanthropic support to advance the college’s mission; approve the president’s tenure decisions; and oversee college financial affairs and investments.

Officers

Jerry Crawford ’71, Chair
Carrie Norbin Killoran ’94, Vice Chair
Michael J. Davis ’69, Vice Chair
D. Christian Koch ’87, Treasurer
Patricia R. Hurley ’82, P ’10, Secretary

Trustees

Jerry Crawford ’71, Chair
Senior Partner, Crawford and Mauro Law Firm, Des Moines, Iowa

Peter W. Ahn ’87
Partner, Hemisphere Companies, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Karen J. Brasel ’87
Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon

Theodore D. Clement ’06
Attorney – Real Estate/Land Use Practice, Fried Frank, New York, New York

Robin Jackson Colman ’78
Vice President, Compensation, Benefits and M & A, eBay, Altadena, California

The Honorable Michael J. Davis ’69
Senior United States Judge, United States District Court, Minneapolis, Minnesota

David J. Deno ’79, P ’11
Chief Executive Officer, Bloomin’ Brands, Inc., Tampa, Florida

Edward Donkor ’04
Principal, SK Capital Partners, New York, New York

Broderick C. Grubb ’73
Owner, BRK Insurance Group, LLC, New Orleans, Louisiana

Timothy D. Hart-Andersen P ’11
Senior Pastor, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Michael A. Huber ’90
President and Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC, New York, New York

Patricia Elizabeth “Liz” Hume ’92
Attending Physician, San Francisco Free Clinic, San Francisco, California

Patricia R. Hurley ’82, P ’10
Board Secretary and Assistant General Counsel, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Aukse Jurkute ’98
Managing Director, Equity Capital Markets | Bank of America Merrill Lynch, London, United Kingdom

Carrie Norbin Killoran ’94
Executive Vice President-Central Wisconsin Region, President-Greater Milwaukee North/Sheboygan PSA, Advocate Aurora Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Michael J. Klingensmith, P ’10
Publisher, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota

D. Christian (Chris) Koch ’87
CEO, The Carlisle Companies, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona

Mark G. Leonard ’65, P ’10
Retired Engineer, Hewlett Packard Corporation, Los Altos, California

Seth J. Levine ’94
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Foundry Group, Boulder, Colorado

Paul L.H. Olson ’72
Board Director and Executive Advisor, Liaison Technologies, North Oaks, Minnesota

Sandra R. Ortiz ’97
Vice President of Corporate Capital Markets at Wilmington Trust, Washington, DC

Amy Pahl ’90
Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sara L. Peterson ’72
Principal Counsel and Manager of Insured Litigation, Bechtel Corporation, Reston, Virginia

James L. Reissner ’62
Chairman, Activar, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota

Suzanne M. Rivera (ex officio)
President, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Susan Dunst Schwartz ’71
Retired Senior Editor, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, Glencoe, Illinois

Michael E. Sneed ’81
Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Paul J. Strand ’71
Retired Dean, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, San Diego, California

Rebecca B. Van Dyck ’91
Chief Marketing Officer, AR/VR at Facebook, Palo Alto, California

Jon M. Walton ’69
Retired Pastor, The First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, Wilmington, Delaware

Annette M. Whaley ’75
Community Volunteer, Saint Paul, Minnesota

In Memoriam

Trustee M. A. “Mort” Mortenson, Jr. passed away in November, 2019. Mort was a member of the Board of Trustees, serving on both the Infrastructure and Advancement Committees, from 2015 until his death in 2019. He and his wife, Alice, have been generous donors to the college, establishing named endowments for Civic Engagement and Entrepreneurship, creating an endowed scholarship, and contributing leadership gifts to the Macalester Fund.