2009 Board of Directors

Officers

Chair: John Cairns, Esq.,
Charter School and Tax Exempt Organizations Attorney, John Cairns Law, P.A.

Vice Chair and Public Policy Committee Chair: Sheila Kiscaden
Consultant. Former Minnesota State Senator

Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee: Gerald J. Knutson
Chief Financial Officer, Ingenix Business Segment, United Health Group

Past Chair: Venetia Kudrle
Consultant. Former President, Mercy and Unity Hospitals

Committee Chairs

Audit Committee

Sheryl Ramstad
Judge, Minnesota Tax Court

Development Committee

Ellie Lucas
Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Bewiki, Inc.

Governance Committee

Anne E. Mahle
Vice President, Recruitment, Teach for America

At Large Members

Babbette Apland
Senior Vice President, Health & Care Management, HealthPartners

Barbara Forster
Chair, Project Tandem, Inc.

Pham Thi Hoa
Executive Director, Centre for Asian Pacific Islanders (CAPI)

Connie Magnuson
Co-owner, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Caribou Technologies, Inc.

Steven H. Miles, M.D.
Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Author, Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror

Pamela Pappas Stanoch
President/Owner, Athena Group International

Terry Saario, Ph.D.
Retired Foundation President and Community Leader

Emeritus Directors

Reverend Richard Lundy
Retired Pastor, St. Luke Presbyterian Church

Richard M. Magraw, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota
Chief of Psychiatric Services (retired), Veterans Administration Medical Center

Paul Quie, M.D.
Regents Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Dept. of Pediatrics
Fairview-University of MN Hospital

Tom Triplett
Attorney and Business Consultant