Board of Trustees

Chair: Dianne Cleaver, Community Volunteer
Vice-Chair: William Zollars
Treasurer: Jeff Provost, Office Managing Partner, Deloitte.
Secretary: Bridgette Williams, Deputy Director, Heavy Constructors Association
Immediate Past Chair and Nominating Committee Chair: Michael Hockley, Partner, Executive Committee, Spencer Fane Britt &  Browne LLP

Audit Committee Chair: Julie Quirin, President and CEO, St. Luke's Hospital
Community Impact Committee Chair: Brenda Sharpe, President & CEO, REACH Healthcare Foundation
Governance Committee Chair: William Zollars
Campaign Co-Chair: Dan Hesse***, Sprint Nextel Corporation
Campaign Co-Chair: Jay Lind***, Business Representative,
Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 2

Terry Bassham, President and COO, Kansas City Power & Light
Robert C. Bloss, Senior Vice President - Human Resources, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Julie Browne, Vice President Managed Care and Marketing, GEHA
Carolyn Caldewell, President & CEO, Centerpoint Medical Center
Kelly Carnago, Vice President, eRecyclingCorps
Thomas Cranshaw**, CEO, Tri-County Mental Health Services, Inc.
Leo Davis, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Iowa
Peggy Dunn, Mayor, City of Leawood
Jo Anne Gabbert
Kevin Gideon, Plant Manager, Ford Motor Company-Claycomo Plant
Jennifer Haile, Managing Director, Resources Global Professionals
Darcy A. Howe, Senior Vice President - Investments, Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investment Group
Gene Johnson, Superintendent, Shawnee Mission School District
Ben Jones, Director of Government Affairs in KS and MO, Union Pacific Railroad
Ray Kowalik, President & General Manager - Energy Division, Burns & McDonnell
Beto Lopez, Broker/Partner, ARO Real Estate
Jeanette Prenger, Owner/President, ECCO Select Corporation
Karen Sage, Community Volunteer
Dred Scott, Deputy Superintendent, Independence School District
Michele Snyder, Senior Vice President - Operations, Alterra Bank
Brent Stewart**, President & CEO, United Way of Greater Kansas City
Edward Tervol, Jr. ***, Executive Board of Local 778, International Machinists & Aerospace Workers
Reginald Thomas***, President/Business Manager for Local 264
Ed Underwood, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Education, School of Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Betsy Vander Velde **, President and CEO, The Family Conservancy
Linda Ward, Executive Vice President & COO, Center for Practical Bioethics
W. Russell Welsh, Chairman and CEO, Polsinelli Shughart
Dorothy Witherspoon, Regional Administrator for Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
Hannes Zacharias, County Manager, Johnson County Government

** ex-officio members (non-voting)
*** ex-officio members (voting)