Regents

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Honorable Ronald Dean Spears

OfficerVice Chancellor

Office HolderRegent

Home City and StateTaylorville, IL

Brief BiographyMember of Taylorville Chamber of Commerce

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.