Board of Trustees

Officers
Trustees
Life Trustees
Ex Officio Trustees
Previous Chairpersons

Officers

William A. Lowry ’84, Chairman
Marisue Lacher P’22, Vice-Chairman
Earl J. Barnes II '86, Secretary

Trustees 

Michael Abello (2027)
Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Academy

M. Mercedes Badia-Tavas (2029)
Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Earl J. Barnes II ’86 (2027)
Senior Corporate Vice President and Chief Legal Officer , Sentara Healthcare

Charles M. Brennan III (2029)
Libertyville, Illinois

William G. Brown (2026)
Hobe Sound, Florida

Devon C. Bruce (2026)
Partner, Power Rogers & Smith, LLP

Jessica Q. Coleman ’89 (2026)
Vice President, Investment Management Division:
Goldman Sachs & Company, LLC

William Connell (2028)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Robert W. Crawford Jr. (2027)
Chairman, Brook Furniture Rental

Geoffrey M. Curtis ’97 (2026)
Founder, Marshall Curtis Communications LLC

Kris Fador ‘04 (2029)
Chief Information Security Officer, Bank of America

Karen F. Frost ’88 (2026)
Senior Vice President, Health Strategy & Solutions; Alight Solutions

Susan Garrett '94 (2029)
Lake Forest, Illinois

David F. Gorter ’80 (2029)
President, SSU Corporation

Vicki Angel Hagan '88 (2027)
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

Cristen Kogl '88 (2027)
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Zebra Technologies

Robert D. Krebs (2028)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Marisue Lacher P’22 (2028)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Randall S. Lauer ’81 (2028)
Independent Trustee, HPS Corporate Lending Fund
Managing Director, Head of Institutional Sales and Business Development

Shao-Lee Lin (2027)
Co-Founder, ACELYRIN, INC

Joseph D. McCarthy '78 (2029)
Founder, The McCarthy Collective LLC

K. Scott Meloun '81 (2026)
Naples, Florida

Diana Moore (2027)   
Lake Forest, Illinois

Martino R. Moore ’99 (2027)
Executive Director on the Institutional Salestrading desk, Morgan Stanley

Robert S. Murley (2027)
Vice Chairman, Credit Suisse

Craig Omtvedt (2029)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Dr. Angelique L. Richard ’85 (2027)
Acting Senior Vice President for Hospital Operations; Chief Nursing Executive for the Rush System; Vice President, Clinical Nursing and Chief Nurse Officer for Rush University Medical Center and the Associate Dean for Practice, Rush University College of Nursing

Mark W. Shadle ’84 (2026)
Managing Director, Global Corporate Affairs; Zeno Group

Lisa Smith P'23 (2027)
Chief Client Officer, Optum Rx 

Joanne Storkan P'10 (2026)
Executive Producer and President, Honest Engine Films

Alexander D. Stuart (2028)
President, North Star Investments

Sean W. Thomas ’81 (2026)
Director, Contracts and Negotiations Executive, Alight Solutions LLC

Claudia Wyatt-Johnson ’69 (2027)
Founding Partner, Partners in Performance Inc. 

Life Trustees

Daniel D. Dolan Jr. ’80
Owner/Managing Member; Dolan, McEniry Capital Management, LLC

Russell W. Fisher
Chairman, Biofit Engineered Products

James P. Gorter
Green Bay Management Company

Jim Hunter ’71
Copake, New York

Paula P. Lillard
Lake Forest, Illinois

David B. Mathis ’60
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Kemper Group

Marian P. Pawlick
Lake Bluff, Illinois

Rhoda A. Pierce ’60
Highland Park, Illinois

Stephen C. Strelsin (2025)
Managing Partner (Retired), Axiom Consulting Partners

Ex Officio Trustees

Donald A. Mastro '92
Chair, Lake Forest College Alumni Council

Dr. Randy Tack
Mayor, City of Lake Forest

Previous Chairpersons

William A. Lowry, 1984
2023-

David Gorter, 1980
2019-2023

Robert D. Krebs
2016-2019

William U. Parfet, 1970
2012-2016

Robert D, Krebs
2009-2012

Peter G. Schiff, 1974
2006-2009

Samuel J. Henry
2003-2006

David B. Mathis, 1960
2000-2003

Geoffrey B. Shields
1997-2000

Russell W. Fisher
1994-1997

James P. Gorter
1990-1994

Wesley M. Dixon, Jr.
1983-1990

Charles A. Meyer
1976-1983

Arthur G. Hailand, Jr.
1974-1976

George B. Beach
1971-1974

Elliot Donnelley
1967-1971

Ernest H. Volwiler
1962-1967

Carroll H. Sudler
1958-1962

Joseph B. Fleming
1945-1958

Clarence W. Diver, 1905
1927-1945

Frank Fitt, D.D., 1911
1923-1927

John H.S. Lee, 1895
1921-1923

Andrew C. Zenos, D.C.
1920-1921

Clayton Mark
1911-1920

John V. Farwell
1908-1911

Alfred L. Baker
1905-1908

Delavan Smith, 1854
1904-1905

David B. Jones
1903-1904

Cyrus H. McCormick
1901-1903

Henry C. Durand
1896-1901

Charles B. Farwell
1890-1896

William Bross
1885-1890

Herrick Johnson
1882-1885

Abbott E. Kittredge
1880-1882

J. Munro Gibson
1878-1880

Arthur Mitchell, D.D.
1877-1878

Robert W. Patterson
1875-1877

William Bross
1871-1875

Benjamin W. Raymond
1857-1871