About: Board of Trustees

Our Board of Trustees is comprised of Minnesota leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors who are actively engaged in the community. The Trustees provide organizational leadership and oversight, and guide the Foundation's Community grantmaking.

Chair	Vice Chair	Secretary	Treasurer

Morris Goodwin, Jr. President and COO, The Hogan Company	Lynn Casey Chairman and CEO, Padilla Speer Beardsley	Weiming Lu Urban Planning and Development Consultant	Nancy Siska Human Resources, Cargill, Incorporated


Andy Andrews Attorney at Law, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty, and Bennett	Jesse Bethke Gomez President, Clues (Comunidades Latinas Unidos En Servicio)	Marshall J. Besikof Retired Partner, Lurie Besikof Lapidus & Company, LLP	Meria Carstarphen, Ed.D. Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools

Yvonne Cheung Ho President and CEO, Metropolitan Economic Development Association	Mark Chronister Retired Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P.	Brother Louis DeThomasis, FSC, Ph.D. President and professor of interdisciplinary studies, St. Mary's University, Minnesota	John F. Eisberg Attorney At Law, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P.

Sima Griffith Founder and Principal, Aethlon Capital	Katherine Hadley Former Director, Minneapolis Public Library	J. Andrew Herring Corporate Vice President,Real Estate and Store Development, Supervalu	Eric J. Jolly, Ph.D. President, Science Museum of Minnesota

Russell C. Nelson Principal/President, Nelson, Tietz & Hoye, Inc.	James Pohlad Director and Executive Vice President, Marquette Bancshares, Inc. and Pohlad Companies	Hussein Samatar Founder and Executive Director, African Development Center	Gerald Stenson Executive Vice President, Minnesota Commercial Banking, Wells Fargo

Diane Thormodsgard Vice Chairman, Wealth Management and Securities Services, USBancorp

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