College Leadership

DRIVEN BY MISSION

Students are at the heart of everything we do at Alverno. Our student-centered leadership are proud to serve this rich campus community.

Alverno College Leadership

Meet our Board of Trustees
2023-'24

Executive Officers

• Katherine M. Hudson H'14, Chair
  Brady Corporation, Chairman of the Board (retired)
• Kristine Obrecht, Vice Chair
  Deloitte & Touche, LLP, Partner
• Deborah Fumagalli, OSF, '06, Vice Chair
  School Sisters of St. Francis, Community Volunteer
• Christy L. Brown, JD, President
  Alverno College

Trustees

• Tammy Belton-Davis '93
  Founder and Principal, Athena Communications
• Mary Catherine Carroll, OSF '62
  School Sisters of St. Francis, United States Province, Volunteer
• Jovita Carranza H'11
  JCR Group, President 
• Tina Chang
  SysLogic, Inc, Chief Executive Officer
• Mary Diez, OSF '67
  Alverno College, Professor Emerita, Community Volunteer
• Kathleen Flanagan
  Nuveen Investments, Senior Vice President (retired)
  Leadership Communications, President
  School Sisters of St. Francis, Associate Member, and Community Volunteer
• Jacquelyn Fredrick
  BloodCenter of Wisconsin; President and CEO (retired)
  Versiti Inc. President and CEO (retired)
• Marie Golanowski '07
  Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, President
• Cecelia I. Gore '92 '08
  Brewers Community Foundation, Executive Director
• Mari-Anne Hechmann '91
  Alverno College, Community Volunteer
• Ellen Hopper '96
  Northwestern Mutual, Vice President-Distribution Performance
• Barbara Kluka '66
  School Sisters of St. Francis, Associate Member, Mediator, Community Volunteer
• Dr. Syneathia LaGrant '07
  Manpower Group, Vice President and Global Head of Talent Management and Development
• Donald W. Layden, Jr.                
  Quarles & Brady, Partner
• Marianne Lubar
  Lubar Family Foundation, President
• Samantha Maldonado '09 '11
  Kohl's, Senior Manager Diversity & Inclusion
• Kathy McCormack
  Johnson Controls Inc., Vice President, Human Resources, Global Products
• Alan Murphy
  BlueCo Brands, President
• Bruce Myers
  Managing Director, AlixPartners
• Abigail J. Nash
  Journal Sentinel Inc., Vice President (retired)
• Kathleen O'Brien, OSF '67
  School Sisters of Saint Francis, United States Province, Provincial Coordinator
• Mary C. Schneider, OSF, '69
  School Sisters of St. Francis, United States Province, Leadership Team
  Center for Grief Recovery, Independent Practitioner
• Marsha Sehler
  Uihlein Wilson Architects, Director of Business Development
• Gina Spang '08
  Senior Project Manager, VJS Construction Services
• Robert Venable
  Charter Manufacturing, President and Chief Operating Officer
• Tia Vernon '08
  Ascension All Saints Hospital, Racine, Co-Medical Director/Hospital Medicine
• Richelle Webb Dixon
  Froedtert Hospital, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Trustees Emeriti 

• Mary Beth Berkes, '75
  Linden Capital Partners, Co-Founding Partner and Managing Director (retired)
• Peter W. Bruce
  Davis and Kuelthau, Attorneys at Law, of counsel
• Elaine Burke H'15
  Retired
• Ellen M. Gardner '69
  Ameritech WI, President (retired)
• Mary Ann LaBahn
  Bank One Trust Company, Vice President (retired)
• Maurice J. McSweeney
  Foley & Lardner, Partner (retired)
• Frederick A. Muth, Jr.
  Whyte Hirschboeck and Dudek, Chairman Emeritus
• Guy A. Osborn
  Universal Foods Corporation, Chairman (retired)
• Anne H. Vogel
  Art Historian
• Barbara Wyatt Sibley '82
  Community Volunteer

Religious Sponsors

• School Sisters of St. Francis