Members of the Lincoln Academy

The Honorable Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker

OfficerPresident

TitleGovernor of the State of Illinois

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Frank Clark

OfficerChancellor

TitleChairman and CEO ComEd, Retired

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyRetired chairman and CEO of ComEd. Serves on many non-for-profit and corporate boards, co-founder of the Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy in Chicago’s West Side.

The Honorable Ronald Dean Spears

OfficerVice Chancellor

Office HolderRegent

Home City and StateTaylorville, IL

Brief BiographyMember of Taylorville Chamber of Commerce

Ethel Holladay

OfficerSecretary

Home City and StateDuQuoin IL

Brief BiographyLife long resident and community leader in southern Illinois. Executive Director of the Illinois Board of Education Association.

Courtney C. Shea

OfficerTreasurer

Office HolderRegent

TitleCivic Leader

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyHolds degrees with high honors from Notre Dame, Loyola, and University of Chicago. An extensive career working in state and private banking and finance to foster creative financing solutions.

Julie A. Kellner

OfficerExecutive Director

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleExecutive Director, The Lincoln Academy of Illinois

Home City and StateSpringfield, IL

Brief BiographyA Trustee and the Executive Director of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Involved in several community efforts including the University of Illinois at Springfield and the United Way of Central Illinois. Graduate of University of Illinois at Springfield.

The Honorable Bruce Rauner

Office HolderRegent for Life

TitleThe 42nd Governor of Illinois

Home City and StateChicago, IL

The Honorable Pat Quinn

Office HolderRegent for Life

TitleThe 41st Governor of Illinois

The Honorable George H. Ryan

Office HolderRegent for Life

TitleThe 39th Governor of Illinois

Home City and StateKankakee IL

The Honorable Jim Edgar

Office HolderRegent for Life

TitleThe 38th Governor of Illinois

The Honorable James R. Thompson

Office HolderRegent for Life

TitleThe 37th Governor of Illinois

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Margaret "Meg" A. Cline, CFA, CFP

Office HolderRegent

TitleVice President for Gift Planning & Trust Services

Home City and StateChampaign, IL

Brief BiographyAssociate Dean of Advancement, College of ACES Advancement Team”; former Director of Principal Gifts and Gift Planning Advisor with University of Illinois Foundation; B.S. College Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) & MBA from UIUC.

The Reverend Stanley L. Davis, Jr.

Office HolderRegent

TitleCo-Executive Director

Home City and StateOak Park, IL

Brief BiographyCo-Executive Director of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago (CRLMC), Executive Director Emeritus of the Chicago and Northern Illinois Region of the National Conference of Community and Justice, (now Chicago Center for Cultural Connections).

Jane Denes

Office HolderRegent

TitlePartner

Home City and StateSpringfield, IL

Brief BiographyPartner, Posegate & Denes, P.C.| Member of the American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Sangamon County Bar Association, among others

George J. Dohrmann, MD, PhD

Office HolderRegent

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyDr. Dohrmann is a neurosurgeon on the faculty of the University of Chicago Medical Center, and represents the United States on several committees of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (the neurosurgical equivalent of the United Nations). Among the awards Dr. Dohrmann has received, he is particularly proud of three of them. Chronologically, the first in 2001 is the Bucy Award given annually to one neurosurgeon in the world for “outstanding contributions to neurosurgical education.” In 2012 Dr. Dohrmann received the Career Achievement Award from the Chicago Neurological Society for “exceptional expertise, knowledge, dedication and recognition in the field of neurosurgery and neurological research.” He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Neuro Spinal Surgeons Association, when the international organization had its meeting in New Delhi, India, in 2017.

Andrea "Andy" Hasten

Office HolderRegent

TitleSenior Vice President

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyStudent Laureate (MacMurray College) in the first year the award was presented in 1974. Mrs. Hasten is Sr VP at Northern Trust Company and manages the Estate Settlement division in Wealth Management.

Robert J. Lenz

Office HolderRegent

Home City and StateEl Paso, IL

Brief BiographyBob Lenz graduated from Freeport High School in 1954, worked his way through college and law school at the University of Illinois and has been actively engaged in the practice of law and community activities in Bloomington-Normal since 1963. In 1965, he was a co-founder of Heartland Head Start in Bloomington-Normal. He is a past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the David Davis Mansion Foundation, member of the Advisory Board of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, the Advisory Board of the Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg, and founding Chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission of McLean County, among other historical boards and committees. He is past President, McLean County Bar Association. Bob and Peggy live on a horse farm in McLean County, Illinois.

Dennis Lyle

Office HolderRegent

TitlePresident/CEO

Home City and StateCarterville, IL

Brief BiographyPresident and CEO of Illinois Broadcasters Association; B.S. and Masters from Southern Illinois University and was honored by the college in 2011 with its Alumni Achievement Award; currently serves on the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts Dean’s National Industry Council; U.S. Department of Justice 2010 ‘Media Person of the Year’

Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall

Office HolderRegent

CommitmentSustaining Member

TitleFounding President and President Emerita

Home City and StateBurr Ridge, IL

Brief BiographyFounding President and President Emerita of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and including Burr Ridge; Founding president of the National Consortium of Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science, and Technology; president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, International; a director on numerous boards including: the FRY Foundation (Chicago); the IMSA Fund for Advancement of Education; The Society for Science and the Public (D.C.), and Ubiquity University; Earned Ph.D from Loyola University of Chicago. Received the Order of Lincoln and became a Lincoln Laureate in 2005. In 2016, Dr. Marshall was appointed by Governor Bruce Rauner to the Illinois Bicentennial Commission.

Lester H. McKeever, Jr.

Office HolderRegent

TitleManaging Principal

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyChairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Managing principal of Washington, Pittman & McKeever; licensed CPA in IL, WI, IN and MI and licensed attorney, IL, U.S. District Courts and U.S. Tax Court

Alexandra "Zan" Ransburg

Office HolderRegent

TitleCivic Leader

Home City and StatePeoria, IL

Brief BiographyCommunity leader with extensive volunteer experience. A graduate of Butler University.

Donald R. Tracy

Office HolderRegent

TitlePartner

Home City and StateSpringfield, IL

Brief BiographyActive in the Illinois State Bar Association, past president Sangamon County Bar Association, and past chair Illinois Institute of Business Law

Eric Trimble

Office HolderRegent

TitlePresident, Trimble Funeral and Cremation Centers

Home City and StateMoline, IL

Brief BiographyPresident of 141-yr old, family-owned Trimble Inc. in Moline. The firm operates Trimble Funeral Homes & Crematory, Veterans Funeral Care, Trimble Funeral Planning, a registered insurance agency, CityView Celebrations at Trimble Pointe, a reception and event venue, and WaterMark Corners and Stationers. Has served on the Funeral Directors Licensing Board for the State of Illinois, and is a past president of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association, a 33rd Degree Mason, a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International, and is active in the Quad City community. He is a graduate of both Cornell College and the University of Minnesota.

Dia S. Weil

Office HolderRegent

Home City and StateWinnetka, IL

Brief BiographyRetired CEO of an e-commerce software company. One of the founders of GTE Airfone and Founder and General Manager of two of its joint ventures; she is also a current board member of Eltek ASA, a publicly traded international Power Company based in Norway. Weil served as Chairman of the Board of Notre Dame High School for Girls on Chicago’s northwest side, where she was honored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur with their “Educating for Life Award” and by the City Council of Chicago for her work in education.

Joy Boruff

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePresident / CEO

Home City and StateMoline, IL

Brief BiographyBoruff was among the first group of women to be employed in WOC-TV’s newsroom in 1976. The next year, she became the first female host of a call-in radio public affairs show on WOC-AM. Now she is executive director of the Moline Foundation.

Arthur 'Hy' Bunn

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Maria del Socorro Pesqueira

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Brief BiographyPresident of Healthy Communities Foundation, a grantmaking foundation that serves communities in the western Cook County suburbs and the City of Chicago. Her career has centered on working with and lifting voices in marginalized communities. She serves on numerous boards and commissions including the Forest Preserves of Cook County Board and the Census 2020 Advisory Panel.

Marlene Dietz

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Home City and StateNormal, IL

Mara Sovey Downing

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleVice President, Brand Management & Corporate Communications and President, John Deere Foundation

Robert A. Easter, PhD

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePresident Emeritus, Dean Emeritus College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Professor Emeritus, Department of Animal Sciences University of Illinois

James G. Gidwitz

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleChairman and CEO, Continental Materials Corp.

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyChairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Continental Materials Corporation and serves as a trustee of the Hotchkiss School

Zale Glauberman

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePresident, The Glauberman Circle

Home City and StateSpringfield, IL

Brief BiographyPresident, The Glauberman Circle, legislative office specializing in legislative and public affairs representation.

J'Tia Hart, PhD

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleProgram Lead, Security Sciences Division

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyDr. Hart is a nuclear engineer currently serving as the Program Lead in the Security Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory where she directs analysis covering international affairs, nuclear energy and safety, energy security and cybersecurity to inform executive cabinet decisions.

Dr. Roger D. Herrin

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleSIU Board of Trustees Member

Home City and StateHarrisburg, IL

Brief BiographyCommunity leader, business person, and doctor. Attended University of Illinois College of Medicine and Illinois College of Podiatric Medicine with a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Degree and received the highest and last Dr. L. R. McCain Award for outstanding proficiency in surgical anatomy and surgery; past president of the American College of Foot Surgeons.

Larry R. Jones, M.D.

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Home City and StateHarrisburg, IL

Melvin L. Katten

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleCo-Founder / Senior Counsel at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Home City and StateWinnetka, IL

Brief BiographyRetired founding partner of Katten Muchin Roseman, LLP and serves as senior counsel; former chairman of the Anti-Defamation League’s Chicago Regional Board; past president of the Better Government Association.

Sheila Berner Kennedy

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Home City and StateKenilworth, IL

Brief BiographyExecutive Director of Top Box Foods; volunteer attorney for Legal Assistance Foundation; appointed in 2011 by the Illinois Supreme Court to serve on the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar.

Howard A. Learner

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePresident and Executive Director, Environmental Law & Policy Center

Brief BiographyAdjunct Professor at the University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University School of Law, teaching advanced seminars on energy law and climate change policy, environmental constitutionalism, and sustainable development law.

Shirley R. Madigan

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleChairman, Illinois Arts Council

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyTrustee at Loyola University of Chicago; Director at After School Matters, Inc; Chairman of Illinois Arts Council.

Jessica Malkin

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleExecutive Vice President, Cresset Capital

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyJessica Malkin is the Executive Vice President of Cresset Capital. She is the founder of Chicago Ideas, overseeing the creation of the annual program and the development of the organization’s long-term strategy.

Lucyna Migala

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleArtistic Director & General Manager, The Lira Ensemble

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyArtistic director, general manager, and narrator of Lira Ensemble; national board member of the Polish Women’s Alliance of America; officer of the Polish Arts Club of Chicago; Co-founder and vice president of the Chicago Chapter of the Kosciusko Foundation; founding member of the Ethnic and Folk Arts Panel of the Illinois Arts Council.

Delmer R. Mitchell

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePartner

Home City and StateQuincy, IL

Brief BiographyA highly respected attorney and community leader in the Quincy area.

Harold Oakley

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleChairman

Brief BiographyChairman of Schmiedeskamp Robertson Neu & Mitchell LLP. He focuses his practice on corporate and other business law (including transactional health care law), mergers and acquisitions. Hal also assists the firm’s education law practice group. Hal is extensively involved in the community, particularly in organizations committed to the social, educational, and cultural betterment of society.

Joseph A. Power, Jr.

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePartner, Power Rogers & Smith, PC

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyFounding partner of law firm Power, Rogers & Smith, P.C.; past president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and Public Justice; fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; member of the Inner Circle of Advocates.

Jon Pyatt

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleRep. Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Chief of Staff

Home City and StateWashington, DC

Brief BiographyChief of Staff to Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) in U.S. Congress; former Director of Federal Relations for the University of Illinois system

Darryl Rodgers

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleVice President

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyDarryl Rodgers is a Vice President and Financial Advisor in the Chicago office of Bernstein. He works with high-net-worth families and individuals, charitable groups and small businesses and, together with their other professional advisors and Bernstein’s portfolio and wealth management specialists, helps clients make investment decisions optimized to meet their goals.

Linda Schielke

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitleNext Generation Leadership Task Force

Home City and StateBatavia, IL

Brief BiographyA recognized educator and educational leader in Illinois for over three decades. Linda gives presentations and provides leadership to several not-for-profit organizations focused on the preservation of historic figures and their achievements. Linda currently serves as Batavia’s First Lady. (Her husband, Jeff Schielke, has held the role of Batavia Mayor for almost 40 years.)

Marc S. Schulman

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePresident

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyPresident of Eli’s Cheesecake; partners with schools and organizations such as Wilbur Wright College, the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, Vaughn Occupational High School, among others.

Smita Shah

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Todd Shapiro

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

TitlePresident and CEO

Home City and StateLa Grange Park, IL

Brief BiographyPresident and CEO of the Illinois CPA Society, Illinois CPA Foundation, and CPAs for the Public Interest, and an ex-officio board member of the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois. In 2015, Todd was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession by Accounting Today.

Mark Slaby

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Home City and StateClarendon Hills, IL

Brief BiographyMARK SLABY is an Executive and Business Owner. He is affiliated with Juno Payments – Global Ecommerce and Mobile Software Enterprise Payment Solutions. Global software payment solutions for: ecommerce, mobile, and merchant services.

Dana Withers

Office HolderGeneral Trustee

Brief BiographyPresident of Withers Broadcasting. Founder and President of Dana Communications. Trustee for the National Association of Broadcasters Political Action Committee.

Robert A. "Arthur" Falls

RectorRector of The Arts and Performing Arts

TitleArtistic Director

Home City and StateEvanston, IL

Dan Kelley

RectorRector of Agriculture

Home City and StateNormal, IL

James O'Connor

RectorRector of Business Industry and Communication

TitleChairman & CEO Unicom Corporation & Commonwealth Edison, retired

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Dr. Samuel Goldman

RectorRector of Education

TitleProfessor Emeritus & Chancellor Emeritus

Home City and StateCarbondale, IL

The Honorable Anne M. Burke

RectorRector of Government and Law

TitleIllinois Supreme Court Justice, 1st Dist.

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Jorge Ramirez

RectorRector of Labor

TitleManaging Director & Labor Strategies, GCM Grosvenor

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Helen L. Morrison, MD, MJ, DFAACEP

RectorRector of Medicine and Science

Home City and StateChicago, IL

The Reverend Monsignor Kenneth Velo

RectorRector of Religion

TitleSenior Executive for Catholic Collaboration, DePaul University

Home City and StateChicago, IL

The Reverend Thomas Behrens

RectorRector of Social Services

TitleFounder, The Night Ministry of Chicago

Home City and StateWilmette, IL

Ryne Sandberg

RectorRector of Sports

Home City and StateLake Bluff, IL

Dr. Peter C. Alexander

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StateCarbondale, IL

Stanley Balzekas, Jr

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Judith H. Bartholf

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StateSpringfield, IL

The Honorable Peter B. Bensinger

Office HolderMember Emeritus

TitlePresident & CEO

Home City and StateLake Forest, IL

Brief BiographyFormer Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); president and CEO of Bensinger, DuPont & Associates.

The Honorable Michael Butler

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StateWoodland Hills, CA

The Reverend Ruben I. Cruz

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Bruce Wirtz MacArthur

Office HolderMember Emeritus

TitleVice President/Director, Wirtz Realty

Home City and StateChicago, IL

The Honorable Richard Mills

Office HolderRegent

TitleUnited States District Judge, U.S. District Court

Home City and StateSpringfield, IL

Brief BiographyU.S. District Judge for the Central District of Illinois; B.A. Illinois College; J.D. Mercer University, served on editorial board of the Mercer Law Review; LL.M. from University of Virginia.

Gayl Pyatt

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StatePinckneyville, IL

William E. Shaw

Office HolderRegent

Home City and StateDixon, IL

Brief BiographyRetired, 5th generation member of Shaw Newspaper family publishing in Dixon. Illinois Journalist of the year in 1997 and former Chairman of the Board, AAA-Chicago Motor Club.

The Honorable John B. Simon

OfficerChancellor Emeritus

Office HolderRegent

TitleJustice, Appellate Court, First District

Home City and StateChicago, IL

Brief BiographyPast president of Chicago Bar Association; Chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee and the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission; B.S. University of Wisconsin and J.D. DePaul University, served on the Law Review.

Dr. Wayne C. Temple

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StateSpringfield, IL

The Honorable Ernest R. "Ernie" Wish

Office HolderMember Emeritus

Home City and StateLake Forest, IL

Brief BiographyNamed a Laureate of the Lincoln Academy in 2004. Retired CPA who was in management of a large CPA firm and large city governments. He is now involved in many civic organizations.