Board of Directors

Chairpersons and Trustees

Members of the Cleveland Foundation Board, 1919‒2013

Ambrose SwaseyBoard: 1917–1919Appointing Authority: UnknownRead BioAmbrose SwaseyBoard: 1917–1919Appointing Authority: UnknownYoung Ambrose Swasey had an interest in astronomy that, combined with his mechanical aptitude, would result in the development of telescopes for nearly two dozen observatories. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1846, Swasey apprenticed as a machinist at age 18 and met a fellow apprentice named Worcester Warner. The two friends moved on to jobs at Pratt & Whitney, where Swasey developed a new technique for making gear-tooth cutters. In 1880, they founded Warner & Swasey, specializing in the manufacture of machine tools, and based the new company in Cleveland.In addition to industrial turret lathes and precision gunsights and rangefinders for the military, Warner & Swasey produced large telescopes and related equipment. (The two partners even built a 9.5-inch refracting telescope in a small observatory between their adjoining residences on Euclid Avenue’s Millionaires’ Row, later donating it to the Case Institute of Technology.) Swasey was a generous benefactor of higher education and Baptist missionary work, and funded various engineering research efforts. He died in 1937 in his birthplace.×Picture of Ambrose SwaseyThomas G. FitzsimonsBoard: 1917–1921Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioThomas G. FitzsimonsBoard: 1917–1921Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyBorn in 1848, the same year that his father emigrated from Ireland to Cleveland, Thomas Fitzsimons attended the city’s public and parochial schools until age 14. The hard-working lad entered into an apprenticeship as an iron molder at his father’s foundry, where he would later develop a process for manufacturing cold-drawn steel. In 1903, he purchased a second plant in Youngstown, and by 1907 the Fitzsimons Company was producing 500 tons of cold-drawn product each month. Fitzsimons was active in civic and political affairs, particularly in the tax reform movement, and ran twice for mayor of Cleveland as an independent candidate. He died in 1921, leaving three sons to run the family’s iron and steel businesses.×Picture of Thomas G. FitzsimonsJames D. WilliamsonBoard: 1917–1922Chair: 1917–1922Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioJames D. WilliamsonBoard: 1917–1922Chair: 1917–1922Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeJames DeLong Williamson (1849–1935) was the son of Samuel Williamson Jr., a Cleveland lawyer and legislator, and Mary E. Tisdale, a prominent member of the Cleveland Ladies Temperance Union. The family was staunchly Presbyterian (James’s grandfather was a charter member of what would later be known as the Old Stone Church). After graduating from Western Reserve College (A.B., A.M.), Williamson enrolled in Union Theological Seminary and earned his B.D. degree in 1875. That same year he became pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Norwalk, Ohio.In 1888, Williamson returned with his family to Cleveland, where he pastored Beckwith Memorial Church. He served as acting president (1912–15) and then executive vice president (1915–21, 1924–27) of Society for Savings. In between his terms as VP of the bank, he stepped in as acting president of Western Reserve University.View in Timeline×Picture of James D. WilliamsonBelle SherwinBoard: 1917–1924Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioBelle SherwinBoard: 1917–1924Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandNoted reformer and suffragist Belle Sherwin (1869–1955) was born in Cleveland to Frances and Henry Alden Sherwin, founder of the Sherwin-Williams paint company. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College (B.S., 1890), then studied history at Oxford University before taking on teaching positions at two girls’ schools in New England. In 1900, Sherwin returned to Cleveland and became the first president of the Consumers League of Ohio. A trustee of the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, she was a tireless civic planner who helped design a parallel organization, the Cleveland Welfare Council, to coordinate the work of the city’s social service agencies. In April 1914, the council asked her to become its founding president. Later that year she requested that the Cleveland Foundation conduct a speedy study of how to strengthen the city’s relief effort. Sherwin joined the foundation’s board in 1917, resigning seven years later to assume the presidency of the National League of Women Voters in Washington.×Picture of Belle SherwinMalcolm L. McBrideBoard: 1917–1941Chair: 1922–1941Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioMalcolm L. McBrideBoard: 1917–1941Chair: 1922–1941Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioMalcolm Lee McBride (1878–1941) counted among his ancestors an Irish immigrant who in 1785, after losing a lawsuit to George Washington, was ejected from property owned by the general. McBride’s father was president of the Root & McBride Company, a wholesale dry-goods firm in Cleveland that had become one of the Midwest’s largest such concerns. After graduating from University School, McBride attended Yale (B.A., 1900; honorary M.A., 1920) where he captained the football team in 1899 and served as head coach of the 1900 team. He then joined Root & McBride, becoming vice president and treasurer upon his father’s death in 1909. Elected president in 1929, he held that position for the remainder of his life.In 1905, McBride married Cleveland-born Lucia McCurdy, and they both played active roles in the city’s public and philanthropic life. She founded the Cleveland Woman Suffrage Party, helped to organize the city’s League of Women Voters, and served on the boards of the Visiting Nurse Association, Cleveland School of Art, and Cleveland Play House, among others. He also served on the boards and committees of various organizations, including the Cleveland Civic League, Cleveland Hospital Council, and Cleveland Association for Criminal Justice. But most notable was his 24-year service to the Cleveland Foundation (1917–41; chair, 1922–41). During his chairmanship the principal value of the foundation’s funds increased from an estimated $359,000 to over $6.7 million, with appropriations totaling more than $2.57 million.View in Timeline×Picture of Malcolm L. McBrideWilliam H. PrescottBoard: 1919–1931Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioWilliam H. PrescottBoard: 1919–1931Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeWilliam Howard Prescott was born in Reynoldsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1873. His father, Charles Holden Prescott, was a lumberman, rafting white pine timbers down Sandy Lick Creek to the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. He then moved his family and lumber operations to Bay City, Michigan, and in 1884 made the strategic decision to relocate yet again—this time to Cleveland, a logical distribution point. He and William’s older brother, Charles Jr., set up the Saginaw Bay Company, purchasing several Cleveland wholesale lumberyards and consolidating them.William Prescott attended Western Reserve University for two years, then transferred to the University of Chicago (Ph.B., 1894). In 1895, he studied law at the University of Michigan, married the following year, and then returned to Cleveland to join the family business. By 1910, with a 1,200-foot dock frontage on the Cuyahoga River, the company was handling about 35 million board feet each year. Prescott was active in the city’s War Chest campaign and sat on the boards of several large companies, including Cleveland Trust and Reliance Electric. He died in 1931 at age 58.×Picture of William H. PrescottThomas L. JohnsonBoard: 1921–1926Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioThomas L. JohnsonBoard: 1921–1926Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyBorn on his family’s farm in Mingo, Ohio, Thomas Lynn Johnson (1855–1926) graduated from the National Normal School, a two-year teacher’s college, before entering the law program at Boston University (LL.B., 1878). He took up law practice in Cleveland, eventually joining the firm headed by John Griswold White, and served as president of the Cleveland Bar Association from 1912 to 1914. A local history written in 1917 described Johnson’s career as “one of quiet and undeviating devotion to his profession. He has never cared to take an active part in political affairs, although, as a citizen interested in good government, he has always been ready to co-operate in measures looking toward better civic conditions.” He died at his home in Oberlin.×Picture of Thomas L. JohnsonLeonard P. AyresBoard: 1922–1940Appointing Authority: Board of Directors, Cleveland Trust; Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioLeonard P. AyresBoard: 1922–1940Appointing Authority: Board of Directors, Cleveland Trust; Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyConnecticut-born Leonard Porter Ayres (1879–1946) was educated in the public schools of Newton, Massachusetts, and would go on to earn advanced degrees from Boston University (A.M., 1909; Ph.D., 1910). After completing his undergraduate studies in 1902, Ayres taught English in Puerto Rico, becoming superintendent of the island’s school system four years later. In 1908, he was appointed director of the Department of Education and Statistics at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, where he applied statistical methods to a number of educational studies. Among these was a 1915–17 survey of Cleveland’s city schools commissioned by the Cleveland Foundation. Ayres’s critical report resulted in a number of changes within the school system.At the outbreak of U.S. involvement in World War I, Lt. Col. Ayres volunteered to lend the Russell Sage Foundation’s statistical expertise to the Council of National Defense. After the war he moved to Cleveland, where he served for 26 years as vice president and chief economist of the Cleveland Trust bank. In 1940, Ayres was recalled to active duty as a brigadier general; he retired in 1942 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. After suffering a fatal heart attack in Cleveland in 1946, he was buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington.×Picture of Leonard P. AyresFrances S. GoffBoard: 1924–1942Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioFrances S. GoffBoard: 1924–1942Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandFrances Southworth Goff’s grandparents came to northern Ohio in 1836 to farm acreage granted them by the Connecticut Land Co. Her father, who operated a general store near Cleveland’s Public Square, eventually became president of National City Bank. And Frances herself (Vassar, 1886) would make her own indelible mark on the city as one of 15 founders of the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy—a model for federated fund-raising organizations throughout America that evolved into today’s United Way. Married in 1894 to Frederick Harris Goff (1858–1923), a corporate lawyer who would also become president of a major bank in town—Cleveland Trust—and who would establish the Cleveland Foundation, Frances Goff (1864–1956) devoted herself to civic causes. In addition to her work with the federation, she served as treasurer of the Maternal Health Association (later known as Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland), lent her name to the Woman Suffrage Party of Cleveland, sat on the board of the Cleveland Day Nursery, and helped to charter the Women’s City Club of Cleveland.×Picture of Frances S. GoffCarl W. BrandBoard: 1926–1942Chair: 1942–1942Appointing Authority: Board of Directors, Cleveland TrustRead BioCarl W. BrandBoard: 1926–1942Chair: 1942–1942Appointing Authority: Board of Directors, Cleveland TrustCarl Widlar Brand (1880–1942), educated in Cleveland’s public schools, was a resourceful young man. To earn money to attend Spencerian Business College, he organized a retail coffee route and made deliveries via bicycle, clerked at a soda-water fountain, collected bills for a plumber, sold scorecards at baseball games, and worked as a doorboy at the Roadside Club, an establishment frequented by patrons of the nearby Glenville Race Track. After graduating from business school he went to work as a clerk for a railway company and studied law at night.In 1898, Brand was earning $25 a week as manager of the Hoffman Hinge Company when his maternal uncle, Francis Widlar, asked him to join his coffee and spice packing business as a billing clerk at $12 a week. Despite the hefty pay cut, Brand sensed an opportunity and worked his way to the position of manager. In 1910, after his uncle’s death, he became president of the Widlar Company. At the 1920 convention of the National Coffee Roasters Association he was elected to a third consecutive term as that organization’s president. Brand’s commitment to civic pursuits was equally energetic. He served as president of the Children’s Fresh Air Camp and Hospital, director of the Cleveland Community Fund, and trustee of the Welfare Federation.View in Timeline×Picture of Carl W. BrandHenry G. DaltonBoard: 1931–1939Appointing Authority: Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for Northern District of Ohio, Eastern DivisionRead BioHenry G. DaltonBoard: 1931–1939Appointing Authority: Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for Northern District of Ohio, Eastern DivisionAt the age of 14, Henry George Dalton (1862–1939) dropped out of school to work for the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad on Cleveland’s Whiskey Island. Seven years later, as a hard-working freight checker on the city’s iron ore docks, Dalton caught the notice of Samuel Mather. In 1883, Mather hired him as a clerk in the new firm of Pickands Mather & Company, which supplied and transported ore to steel mills. A mere 10 years later, Dalton became the company’s fourth general partner, and by the end of the 1930s Pickands Mather’s fleet of 47 steamships was delivering an estimated 12 million tons of ore each year. He was a member of the War Industries Board’s iron and steel committee during World War I, and later President Coolidge appointed him to arbitrate a United States Shipping Board dispute. He served on the boards of many companies, including Ohio Bell and National City Bank, and in 1932 was named chairman of Youngstown Sheet & Tube.Having amassed great wealth, Dalton used it to support the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Orchestra and Kenyon College, and was also a trustee of Western Reserve University, Lakeside Hospital, Day Nursing Association, Jones Home for Friendless Children, Hiram House and the Cleveland Society for the Blind, among others. Dalton died in 1939 from complications following an appendectomy.×Picture of Henry G. DaltonFred S. McConnellBoard: 1939–1955Chair: 1942–1955Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioFred S. McConnellBoard: 1939–1955Chair: 1942–1955Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioAfter graduating from Oberlin College in 1899, Fred S. McConnell (1876–1959) entered his father’s wool business in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and the following year married Grace Jenner. He succeeded to the presidency of the J. S. McConnell Wool Company upon his father’s death, but several years later decided to enter a different field: coal. In 1910, he became head of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Company, leaving seven years later for Cleveland at the behest of George Enos, founder and president of the Enos Coal Mining Company, which operated mines in Indiana. McConnell became president of Enos Coal after its founder’s death in 1940. He would also serve as president of the National Coal Association (1943–46) and the Bituminous Coal Institute (1943–51).Grace had died in 1938, and in 1943 McConnell married the widowed Ann Bomberger Balkwill. She served on the St. Luke’s Hospital Women’s Board and on the senior board of Amasa Stone House. In addition to McConnell’s long service with the Cleveland Foundation, he was president of Karamu House during its early years and an elder of the Church of the Covenant.View in Timeline×Picture of Fred S. McConnellJoseph C. HostetlerBoard: 1940–1942Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioJoseph C. HostetlerBoard: 1940–1942Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyAfter his death in 1958, Joseph C. Hostetler was eulogized in the Plain Dealer as “essentially a farm boy who made good in the big city.” He had been born into an Amish family near Canal Dover, Ohio, in 1885, descended from Jacob Hoststadtler, a Swiss immigrant who settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1737 and fathered eight sons. To earn money for law school at Western Reserve University, Joe Hostetler traveled for 18 months peddling suspenders. He graduated in 1908, was admitted to the bar that same year, and entered the law office of William R. Hopkins. During the 1912–16 Cleveland mayoralty of Newton D. Baker, Hostetler served as assistant city law director. Then the two of them, along with a third partner, founded the firm of Baker, Hostetler & Sidlo. It would grow into one of the nation’s largest, numbering among its clients the city’s three newspapers, General Electric, and the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs.Hostetler became director of Cleveland Trust in 1937, served as secretary of the Cleveland Baseball Company for 20 years, and in 1947 was elected president of the Cleveland Bar Association. He maintained a 750-acre farm in Bath, where in later years he raised cattle, hogs and chickens. At his death he bequeathed eight acres of his Gates Mills property to the Cleveland Metropolitan Park Board to link two park areas along the Chagrin River.×Picture of Joseph C. HostetlerRoberta H. BoleBoard: 1942–1947Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioRoberta H. BoleBoard: 1942–1947Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandAt age 15, Roberta Holden Bole (1876–1950) came with her family to Cleveland from Salt Lake City. Her parents, Liberty and Delia Bulkley Holden, had previously lived in Cleveland but ventured west in the early 1870s to invest in silver mining properties. Liberty Holden, a former professor of literature, purchased the Plain Dealer in 1885 and served as president of the building committee for the new Cleveland Museum of Art after its incorporation in 1913. Delia Holden was active in educational and welfare work.Roberta Holden followed in her parents’ civic footsteps. A graduate of Miss Mittelberger’s School, she married newspaper publishing executive Benjamin P. Bole in 1907. She donated the original parcel of land for the Holden Arboretum, co-founded Hawken School, helped to preserve the historic Dunham Tavern, donated important works to the art museum and served as a member of its advisory council, and set up a scholarship that allowed Cleveland’s city schools to establish classes for gifted children. After her death, at a memorial service held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, director William Milliken paid tribute: “She probed the depths of liberality and understanding and saw herself as a vehicle for service.... A life such as this does not end; it lives in the unnumbered causes to which she gave herself.”×Picture of Roberta H. BoleWilliam E. WickendenBoard: 1942–1947Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioWilliam E. WickendenBoard: 1942–1947Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyWilliam Elgin Wickenden (1882–1947) moved from academia to business and back again. Born in Toledo, Ohio, he graduated from Denison University in 1904. He taught physics and electrical engineering, marrying Marion Lamb in 1908. The following year, they moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he became assistant professor and then associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT. In 1918, commerce called and the couple moved back west to Cleveland, where Wickenden worked as personnel director of the Western Electric Company until his appointment in 1921 as assistant vice president of AT&T. He resigned that position in 1924 to serve as director of a national program to bolster engineering education standards in the United States. In 1929, he was elected president of Case School of Applied Science, his term continuing until the end of the 1946–47 academic year.Wickenden worked to keep the school solvent throughout the Depression. He advocated the addition of formal graduate programs to the Case curriculum, and during his tenure the first master’s and doctoral degrees were conferred. He served on the boards of the Cleveland Community Fund, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Welfare Federation and Ohio Labor Board.×Picture of William E. WickendenNap H. BoyntonBoard: 1942–1949Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioNap H. BoyntonBoard: 1942–1949Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeNapoleon Hiram Boynton (1885–1950) was born in Minneapolis and attended high school in Chicago. He worked for several Chicago printing companies, a laboratory supply company, and Western Electric before graduating in 1909 from the University of Illinois with a degree in electrical engineering. That same year, he married Winifred Valer. The couple moved to Cleveland, where Boynton worked as publicity manager for General Electric’s National Lamp Works and joined the Cleveland Advertising Club. He helped to organize the 1914 Cleveland Electrical Exposition, and during the war participated in the Red Cross home service program. By 1918 he had been appointed manager of GE’s Buckeye Sales Division.Boynton lent his promotional and sales skills to a variety of civic projects. He was a director of Cleveland Trust, active in the Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Health Museum, and Welfare Federation, and served as the first publicity director of the Community Fund. Winifred died in 1948, and the following year Boynton married Edna Bingham. The marriage was short-lived, however. Boynton died in 1950 at age 64.×Picture of Nap H. BoyntonHarold T. ClarkBoard: 1942–1956Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioHarold T. ClarkBoard: 1942–1956Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees Committee“Harold Terry Clark, perhaps more than any other individual in the last half century, made Cleveland a fine city in which to live and grow,” wrote the Plain Dealer upon Clark’s death in 1965. Born in Connecticut in 1882, Clark attended Yale (A.B., 1903) and Harvard (LL.B., 1906). The same year that he earned his law degree he moved to Cleveland and joined Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, marrying partner William Sanders’s daughter Mary in 1911. He would remain with the prestigious firm until 1938, when he opened his own practice in order to devote more time to community pursuits. Mary had died in 1936 (the couple had six children), and in 1940 Clark married Marie Odenkirk.Clark’s civic involvement was longstanding. In 1920, he spearheaded the movement to establish the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, later becoming its president. (In 1961, the museum would begin awarding the Harold T. Clark Medal to those “whose achievements inspire a love and respect for nature.” Clark was its first recipient.) He promoted relocation of the Holden Arboretum to Kirtland, was instrumental in the formation of Friends of the Cleveland Zoo, and for a quarter century served as vice president of the Cleveland Society for the Blind. When Leonard C. Hanna Jr., scion of a Great Lakes shipping fortune, died in 1957, he left Clark in charge of his trust fund. Hanna had instructed that the fund be liquidated within five years of his death, with $33 million to be given immediately to the Cleveland Museum of Art. That left Clark, who had been Hanna’s personal attorney, with more than $40 million to distribute. The beneficiaries of this largesse would include the University Circle Development Foundation, Cleveland Development Foundation, Cleveland Foundation and Karamu House.×Picture of Harold T. ClarkJohn L. McChordBoard: 1947–1956Chair: 1955–1956Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioJohn L. McChordBoard: 1947–1956Chair: 1955–1956Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyBorn in Lebanon, Kentucky, John Lisle McChord (1897–1956) graduated from Washington & Lee University (1918) and Harvard Law School (1922), serving in the military during World War I. He worked in the legal department of the Cleveland Automobile Club before joining the firm of Calfee, Fogg & White as a partner in 1927. For many years he was a member of the probate and trust committee of the Ohio State Bar Association, and in 1949–50 served as president of the Cleveland Bar Association. He was a director of Union Savings & Loan, vice president of the Family Service Association of Cleveland, and trustee of the Welfare Federation of Greater Cleveland. At age 58, he succumbed to a heart attack.View in Timeline×Picture of John L. McChordConstance M. BishopBoard: 1947–1957Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioConstance M. BishopBoard: 1947–1957Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandConstance Mather Bishop (1889–1969) belonged to one of Cleveland’s most prominent families. Descended from the Mathers of New England, her father, Samuel Mather, had inherited a fortune and then made another fortune through his ore-shipping company; he helped to establish the Community Chest (now United Way Services), chairing its first campaign. Her mother, Flora Stone Mather, was also known for her philanthropic activities; in 1931, Western Reserve University’s College for Women was renamed in her honor. In 1914, Constance Mather married Robert H. Bishop Jr., a physician who would become director of Lakeside Hospital and University Hospitals of Cleveland.Constance Bishop was a charitable force in her own right. In addition to serving as president of the Family Health Association, she was treasurer of the American Red Cross Family Service during World War I, a trustee of the Nutrition Association and Phillis Wheatley Association, and a member of the advisory council of Flora Stone Mather College.×Picture of Constance M. BishopFred H. ChapinBoard: 1950–1958Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioFred H. ChapinBoard: 1950–1958Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeFrederick Howard Chapin (1875–1958) combined hard work with a love of life and community. Born on an Iowa farm, he began work at age 11. He studied chemistry, physics, engineering and metallurgy at the University of Minnesota, then worked as a troubleshooter for a ceramics company in St. Louis, learning to diagnose industrial ills. He would put this talent to use at Cleveland’s National Acme Company, a major maker of machine tools, becoming president in 1926 and increasing business by 300 percent. That number soared to 1,100 percent after the outbreak of WWII. He continued as president until age 82, also serving on the boards of other companies and as president of the A. M. McGregor Home and Holden Arboretum.A 1944 profile of Chapin in the Plain Dealer labeled him a “hopeless romanticist,” a lover of all things French—including Helen LaRue, the Minnesota-born woman of French heritage whom he married in 1899. In 1915, he designed a Normandy-style weekend chalet on the Chagrin River in Kirtland Hills, building much of its furniture in his own woodworking shop (and losing a left finger in the process). Thirty-four years later, Chapin donated 390 nearby wooded acres with ancient rocky outcroppings to the State of Ohio. Today, Lake Metroparks manages the Chapin Forest Reservation. Chapin died in 1958, two months after the death of his wife. He left substantially all of his $2 million-plus estate to the Cleveland Foundation to be used for the general good of the community without restriction.×Picture of Fred H. ChapinEllwood H. FisherBoard: 1955–1965Chair: 1956–1962Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioEllwood H. FisherBoard: 1955–1965Chair: 1956–1962Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioIn the late 19th century, Manning Fisher worked for a grocer who owned 150 stores throughout New York City. Inspired by his boss’s success, in 1907 Fisher set out for Cleveland and opened his first grocery store on Lorain Avenue. His brother Charles soon joined him, and by 1916 the Fisher Brothers Company had 48 stores operating under the cash-and-carry system. Manning’s Dartmouth-educated son, Elwood Huff Fisher (1899–1975), would enter the family business as an assistant buyer.By the time of his father’s death in 1931, Elwood Fisher had assumed the presidency of the supermarket chain. When the company celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1947, it was operating 211 stores. Fisher had married Marion Shupe, who served on the boards of Amasa Stone House, the YWCA and Camp Ho Mita Koda. He helped to found Bluecoats Inc., which provides aid to families of police and firefighters killed in the line of duty. He was also on the board of the Cleveland Zoological Society and was the first chairman of Fenn College, predecessor of Cleveland State University.View in Timeline×Picture of Ellwood H. FisherJohn A. GreeneBoard: 1956–1961Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioJohn A. GreeneBoard: 1956–1961Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeJohn A. Greene (1893–1980) spent much of his Nebraska boyhood visiting patients at the mental hospital where his physician father worked. After graduating from the University of Chicago, in 1914 Greene entered the telephone business as an accounting clerk at the Chicago Telephone Company. He served two years in the Navy during World War I, then in 1919 joined Cleveland Bell Telephone (Ohio Bell’s predecessor) and quickly rose through its ranks. By 1932 he was vice president and general manager for northeast Ohio and in 1945 was appointed operating VP. In 1950, he moved to Detroit to head Michigan Bell, returning to Cleveland two years later to serve as president of Ohio Bell.Before his retirement in 1958, Greene was trustee of a dozen community service groups and in 1942 had been voted Cleveland’s “First Citizen” for his work as president of the Welfare Federation. After retiring, he continued his philanthropic efforts, serving as chairman of Western Reserve University, president of United Appeal, president of United Community Funds and Councils of America, vice president of the Cleveland YMCA and trustee of the Cleveland Zoological Society.×Picture of John A. GreeneJohn C. VirdenBoard: 1956–1967Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioJohn C. VirdenBoard: 1956–1967Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyBefore the United States entered World War I, John Closey Virden Jr. (1897–1981), then a student at University School, attempted to join the French air corps. His desire to serve would have to wait until May 1917, a month after the U.S. declared war on Germany, when Cleveland’s volunteer Lakeside Hospital Unit was the first to arrive in France. He was attached to the French army for training, winning his pilot’s wings, then transferred to the U.S. air corps. The war ended shortly thereafter, along with Virden’s dreams of aerial dogfights. He returned to Cleveland and joined the manufacturing company founded by his father. In 1929, he formed the John C. Virden Company, which became one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of electrical lighting fixtures.During WWII, Virden was regional director of the War Production Board and in 1946 served as central field commissioner for Europe in the Office of Foreign Liquidation Commissioner. In that same year, he was elected a director of Eaton Manufacturing Company, and in 1958 was named company president. Under Virden’s leadership, Eaton significantly expanded and diversified through acquisitions. In the meantime, he became director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, later rising to chairman of the board. Virden’s civic accomplishments were equally varied. He was a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, University Hospitals, Carnegie Tech and the Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund. In 1954, he worked to establish the Cleveland Development Foundation to assist in urban renewal, serving as its first president.×Picture of John C. VirdenPamela H. FirmanBoard: 1958–1970Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioPamela H. FirmanBoard: 1958–1970Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandThe 1985 Belmont Stakes was won by Creme Fraiche, bred by Pamela Humphrey Hanna Firman and her nephew on Firman’s Whileaway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. She was committed to continuing the bloodlines of the Thoroughbred horses she inherited from her father, George M. Humphrey, a Cleveland industrialist who had served as Eisenhower’s secretary of the treasury. Born in 1913 in Saginaw, Michigan, Pamela moved to Cleveland as a child when her father joined the M. A. Hanna Company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she married Howard M. Hanna III in 1935; a year later he would die of a brain tumor. She served with the American Red Cross as director of an Army Air Forces rest facility in England during World War II. It was at the headquarters of the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force that she met Lt. Royal Firman Jr. They married in 1944.In addition to being a fine horsewoman and running a farm in Kirtland, Ohio, Firman devoted her energies to community service. She sat on the boards of the Cleveland chapter of the Red Cross, Planned Parenthood and Central School of Practical Nursing, and served as president and secretary of Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, trustee of University Hospitals and treasurer of what is now the Cleveland Botanical Garden. In 1951, she established the Firman Fund to provide support for hospitals, medical, higher and secondary education, cultural programs, youth agencies, community funds and land conservation programs. Pamela and Royal Firman divorced in 1970. She died in 1997 at age 83.×Picture of Pamela H. FirmanKent H. SmithBoard: 1959–1969Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioKent H. SmithBoard: 1959–1969Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeBorn in Cleveland, Kent Hale Smith (1894–1980) graduated from Dartmouth in 1915 and two years later earned a degree in chemical engineering from Case Institute of Technology. He joined Dow Chemical (which his father, A. W. Smith, a chemistry professor at Case, had co-founded with Herbert Dow in 1897), leaving to serve as an engineer in the Army Signal Corps aviation section. After the war he worked as a courier for the Peace Commission in France, returned briefly to Dow, then headed a real estate construction and development firm. In 1928, Smith and his two younger brothers co-founded Graphite Oil Products Company. What began as an experiment, with the brothers mixing oil additives in their mother’s large cooking pot in a rented garage, would become the Lubrizol Corporation, a worldwide lubricant manufacturer. Smith served as company president or vice president from 1928 to 1951, then as chairman of the board (1951–59), and continued as a director until his retirement in 1967.Smith was president of Euclid Glenville Hospital, chairman of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation, and board member of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Holden Arboretum. He remained closely tied to his alma mater, becoming a Case trustee in 1949 and serving as acting president from 1958 to 1961. He advocated for the consolidation of Case and Western Reserve University, and the two institutions merged in 1967 as Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). In 2010, the Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust donated $10.5 million to CWRU’s new university center, which will house 160 student organizations.×Picture of Kent H. SmithJohn SherwinBoard: 1961–1972Chair: 1963–1971Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioJohn SherwinBoard: 1961–1972Chair: 1963–1971Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeLike his father, John Sherwin (1901–1991) started out in the banking business. After graduating from Yale (B.S., 1923), the native Clevelander joined the Union Trust Company and was elected vice president in 1927. The following year, he left to become president of Midland Bank; when Cleveland Trust absorbed Midland, he was appointed executive vice president. In 1941, Sherwin left banking to become a partner of the iron-ore producer Pickands Mather; in 1960, he was named president of that company (later becoming chairman of the board) and its affiliated Interlake Steamship Company. He served on the boards of numerous commercial and industrial concerns and was a director of the American Iron and Steel Institute and the Lake Carriers Association.During his rise at Pickands Mather, John Sherwin had found time to be a member of the board of organizations as diverse as the Horace Kelly Art Foundation, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and Cleveland Clinic Foundation (he would ultimately serve as a trustee of the internationally known medical center for a record 57 years). He was preceded on the Cleveland Foundation board by his first cousin once removed, Belle Sherwin, a member of the first distribution committee (1917–24). In 1973, he and his wife, Frances Wick Sherwick, established the Sherwick Fund. Their son, John Jr., was appointed to the Cleveland Foundation’s distribution committee in 1996 and later served as its chairman.View in Timeline×Picture of John SherwinRaymond Q. ArmingtonBoard: 1965–1974Chair: 1972–1973Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioRaymond Q. ArmingtonBoard: 1965–1974Chair: 1972–1973Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio“A knowledge of men is a great asset to anyone—engineer, executive or one in any profession.... In my estimation this is fifty per cent of a man’s education.” These sage words of advice were penned by the 21-year-old Raymond Q. Armington for an article that appeared in The Ohio State Engineer in 1928. “A cheerful word now and then will win friends and may help to win promotion,” he added. He graduated from OSU that same year with a degree in industrial engineering, and would later obtain a law degree from Pepperdine University. A native of Wickliffe, Ohio, Armington (1907–1993) joined his brothers in 1931 at the Armington Engineering Company, an offshoot of the horse-drawn dump wagon business that their father had founded in 1899. Euclid Road Machinery soon took over the company, and Armington served as vice president and general manager (1937–51) and then as president (1951–53). When General Motors acquired the company in 1953, Armington remained as general manager of the Euclid Division, a maker of massive earth-moving equipment used in mining and construction projects around the world. He left in 1960 to establish Triax Company, which eventually became Webb-Triax, a maker of automated storage and handling equipment.Armington served on the boards of Case Western Reserve University, University Circle Inc., Greater Cleveland Association Foundation, Holden Arboretum, Hiram House, Hawken School and Lakeland Community College.View in Timeline×Picture of Raymond Q. ArmingtonThomas A. BurkeBoard: 1965–1974Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeRead BioThomas A. BurkeBoard: 1965–1974Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeDuring northern Ohio’s “Big Snow” that started Thanksgiving weekend of 1950 and virtually shut down Cleveland, Mayor Thomas Aloysius Burke ordered the city’s service director to hire every available contractor who owned a bulldozer, tractor or plow to clear the impassable streets, regardless of cost. That take-charge attitude characterized his life. Born in 1898 to a prominent Cleveland surgeon and his wife, young Tom was expected to pursue a career in medicine. He chose law instead, graduating from Holy Cross College (B.A., 1920) and Western Reserve University (LL.B., 1923), and establishing a private practice. In 1930, he was appointed assistant county prosecutor, resigning seven years later to run for a municipal judgeship. He lost, vowing never again to enter a race for public office. But that decision would change.When Frank Lausche was elected Cleveland mayor in 1941, he appointed Burke as his law director. When Lausche was elected governor in 1945, Burke filled his remaining term as mayor. Running as an independent Democrat, in four successive mayoral elections he would flatten his opponents, including former safety director Eliot Ness. His administration instituted a large capital-improvement program, including a lakefront airport later named in his honor, the first downtown airport in the country. In 1954, Burke had a brief stay in Washington, appointed to fill the term of the late U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft. Later that year, he ran for the seat but lost by a margin so close that the votes were recounted. He attributed his ultimate defeat to a statement he had made criticizing the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, a position that did not play well in a few southern Ohio districts, and returned to his position as senior partner of the firm Burke, Haber & Berwick. Burke died in 1971 at age 73.×Picture of Thomas A. BurkeEdward H. deConinghBoard: 1965–1974Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioEdward H. deConinghBoard: 1965–1974Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeChicago native Edward Hurlbut deConingh (1902–1991) graduated from Princeton (B.A., 1922) before studying at the University of Grenoble and then earning a degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1933, he joined the Mueller Electric Company in Cleveland as a partner, serving over the years as chief engineer, president and chairman. Mueller Electric manufactured current-carrying clips for the automotive, telecommunications and electronics industries.DeConingh immersed himself in the civic life of his adopted hometown, becoming a leader in health and welfare activities. He served as president of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland for three years (1956–59), chaired the United Appeal, and was a trustee of Western Reserve University, Smith College, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Health Museum, Salvation Army, Goodrich House and Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association. He was an avid downhill skier, a sport he pursued well into his 80s.×Picture of Edward H. deConinghEdgar A. HahnBoard: 1967–1970Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeRead BioEdgar A. HahnBoard: 1967–1970Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeEdgar A. Hahn (1882–1970) graduated from Western Reserve University (LL.B., 1903) and did postgraduate work at Columbia University. His father, Aaron Hahn, a native of Czechoslovakia who earned a doctoral degree from the University of Leipzig, had arrived in Cleveland in 1874 to assume leadership of the Tifereth Israel congregation. A liberal idealist, Dr. Hahn resigned his rabbinical post 18 years later to enter the field of law, and in 1904 his son Edgar joined the practice.In 1912, Edgar Hahn was appointed to Mayor Newton D. Baker’s commission responsible for forming the city’s home-rule charter; it would become a national model. In 1920, he joined the law firm of Mooney, Hahn, Loeser & Keough as senior partner. Hahn devoted much time to Cleveland’s cultural life, helping to found the Northern Ohio Opera Association (which prompted the Metropolitan Opera to add a stop in Cleveland to its annual spring tour). As vice chairman of the Musical Arts Association he was instrumental in establishing the Cleveland Orchestra’s tradition of summer pop concerts. He was a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, a director of National City Bank for 43 years, and in 1961 became a life trustee of the Temple-Tifereth Israel, where his father had served in the late 19th century.×Picture of Edgar A. HahnJames D. IrelandBoard: 1967–1972Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeRead BioJames D. IrelandBoard: 1967–1972Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeJames Duane Ireland (1913–1991) was born in Duluth, Minnesota, to Elizabeth Clark Ring and James D. Ireland, a partner in the M. A. Hanna Company, one of Cleveland’s major iron ore houses. His father died when young James was age seven, and eight years later his mother married 71-year-old William G. Mather, former president of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. Ireland attended several preparatory schools and graduated from Cornell School of Engineering in 1937. He joined Hanna Coal in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and then in 1946 founded the Peters Creek Coal Company in West Virginia. Returning to Cleveland in 1950, he became a director of Cleveland-Cliffs and chaired the executive committee from 1980 to 1986. He was a founder and chairman of the Bratenahl Development Corporation.Ireland was a vice chair of University Circle Inc. He served on the boards of the Cleveland Botanical Garden, University Hospitals, Cleveland Museum of Art and Western Reserve Historical Society. He was a life trustee of Hawken School and president of Holden Arboretum from 1972 to 1975.×Picture of James D. IrelandKenneth W. ClementBoard: 1967–1974Appointing Authority: Distribution Committee and Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioKenneth W. ClementBoard: 1967–1974Appointing Authority: Distribution Committee and Bank Trustees CommitteeBorn in Vashti, Virginia, Kenneth Witcher Clement (1920–1974) moved to Cleveland with his family as a child. He graduated as valedictorian of Central High School’s class of 1938, earning scholarships to attend Oberlin College (A.B., 1942) and Howard Medical School (M.D., 1945). After an internship at Harlem Hospital in New York, Clement held a residency in general surgery at Cleveland City Hospital (1946–51). For two years he served in the U.S. Air Force, earning his flight surgeon wings, attaining the rank of major, and becoming president of the medical board of Lockbourne AFB Hospital. In 1953, he returned to Cleveland. He was a clinical instructor in surgery at Western Reserve University’s medical school and practiced at four area hospitals.In 1963, President Kennedy appointed Clement to the National Social Security Advisory Council, which was instrumental in developing the Medicare program. During the Johnson administration he served on the Presidential Appeals Board of the National Selective Service System and in other advisory capacities. In 1967, he managed Carl Stokes’s successful campaign to become the first black mayor of a major American city. Clement served as president of the Cleveland Baptist Association, president of the National Medical Association, national board member of the NAACP and Urban League, and trustee of Kent State University and Howard University. His accomplishments have been honored through the naming of the Kenneth W. Clement Boys’ Leadership Academy and MetroHealth’s Kenneth W. Clement, M.D., Conference Center.×Picture of Kenneth W. ClementElmer L. LindsethBoard: 1967–1974Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioElmer L. LindsethBoard: 1967–1974Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees Committee“The best location in the nation.” Anyone who lived in Cleveland during the 1940s to the ’70s remembers that slogan. It was the brainchild of Elmer Lindseth (1902–1999), the enthusiastic chairman of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI), who devised campaigns to promote his company and the city. After moving to Cleveland from Chicago as a child with his Swedish-born parents, Lindseth graduated from Glenville High School and won a two-year scholarship to the Case School of Applied Science. He would earn bachelor’s degrees from both Miami University and Case, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Yale. Lindseth first worked at CEI in 1924 as a summer intern, beginning full-time employment as a junior tester in 1926. A year later he became a production engineer, the first of many promotions. He was named CEI’s president in 1945 and board chairman in 1960, then chairman of the executive committee from 1967 until his retirement in 1974.Lindseth worked tirelessly to champion Cleveland as an excellent site for new industry and expansion, serving as president of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development. He was a trustee of Case Western Reserve University and held leadership positions in the Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation and University Circle Incorporated.×Picture of Elmer L. LindsethHarvey B. HobsonBoard: 1967–1975Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioHarvey B. HobsonBoard: 1967–1975Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyHarvey Blair Hobson (1909–1976) was the son of a prominent Cleveland ear, nose and throat specialist, Dr. Willis S. Hobson, and Florence M. Lower Hobson. In the 1920s, his mother, a graduate of Western Reserve University (WRU) and a teacher at Fairmount Junior High School, prepared a curriculum for introducing the teaching of hygiene that was later adopted for all junior high schools in Cleveland. She was a board member of the Child Health Association and the Eliza Jennings Home.Like his mother, Harvey Hobson also graduated from Western Reserve (B.A., 1934; LL.B., 1936). After earning his law degree, he joined the firm of Thompson, Hine & Flory. He was a member of the board of overseers for the WRU law school and a trustee of the Central School of Practical Nursing, Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, Charles C. Hutchins Trust Foundation and Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation.×Picture of Harvey B. HobsonFrank E. Joseph Sr.Board: 1967–1977Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioFrank E. Joseph Sr.Board: 1967–1977Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeLifelong Clevelander Frank Joseph (1904–1995) was the grandson of a founder of the Joseph & Feiss clothing firm, an important part of Cleveland’s garment industry. He graduated from Columbia University in 1925 and received a law degree in 1927, then joined the firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, becoming a partner in 1936 and retiring in 1977 at age 72. But he is best remembered as a civic leader, especially for his work in establishing Blossom Music Center, the open-air summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra. The center was built in 1967–68 during his presidency of the Musical Arts Association. Joseph’s affiliation with the orchestra’s parent organization began in 1952. He served nearly 12 years as president and 15 years as chairman of the board, and in 1983 was named a trustee for life.Joseph was also a life trustee of the United Way and Jewish Community Federation, trustee emeritus of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and a member of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History board and the Cleveland Commission on Higher Education. He served as president and chairman of the board of Bellefaire and the Jewish Social Service Bureau, trustee and chairman of John Carroll University, president of the John P. Murphy Foundation and secretary of the Kulas Foundation. His wife, Martha, co-founded the Cleveland Arts Prize and the Cleveland International Piano Competition. In February 1988, the Cleveland Orchestra dedicated a week of programs to the Josephs in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary and their contributions to the orchestra.×Picture of Frank E. Joseph Sr.George F. Karch Sr.Board: 1967–1977Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningRead BioGeorge F. Karch Sr.Board: 1967–1977Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningIn 1926 George F. Karch (1907–1982) joined the Cleveland Trust Company, operating an adding machine in the proof department. Two weeks later he was promoted to the tax division of the trust department. And 47 years later he would retire as the bank’s chairman and chief executive officer. Karch had come up the hard way—selling newspapers, scrubbing pharmacy floors, laying pipeline and working as a laborer in a steel mill. After graduating from West High School, he enrolled in St. Lawrence University but dropped out less than two years later when his father lost his sight. He took night classes at Cleveland Law School while working in the bank during the day, and received his law degree in 1930. In 1940, he graduated from Rutgers University Graduate School of Banking. He was a trustee and officer of the Frank E. Bunts Educational Institute, Children’s Fresh Air Camp and Hospital, Church of the Covenant and Cleveland Clinic Foundation.×Picture of George F. Karch Sr.Thomas F. PattonBoard: 1967–1977Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioThomas F. PattonBoard: 1967–1977Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioThomas F. Patton (1903–2001) was president, chairman and chief executive of Republic Steel Corporation until his retirement in 1971. The son of Irish immigrants, Patton grew up on Cleveland’s West Side and attended St. Ignatius High School; in 1926, he earned a law degree from Ohio State University. After working in the legal department of the Union Trust Company, he joined the Cleveland law firm of Andrews & Belden and in 1930 helped work out the complicated merger of four companies into Republic Steel. Six years later, Republic hired Patton to set up an internal legal department. He joined the company’s board in 1943 and a year later was named vice president. He became company president in 1956.In the early 1950s, Patton helped to establish the Cleveland Development Foundation, which sought to redevelop the city’s downtown area and build new housing for the poor. He served on the board of Ohio State and as a trustee of John Carroll University. He chaired the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Sunny Acres Tuberculosis Hospital and PlayhouseSquare Foundation’s executive producers committee, and was a founding member of Bluecoats Inc., an organization that provides funds to help children of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. In 1963, he served as state chairman of a successful campaign to authorize a $250 million bond issue for the establishment of branches of public universities throughout Ohio.×Picture of Thomas F. PattonH. Stuart HarrisonBoard: 1969–1979Chair: 1974–1978Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees Committee and Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioH. Stuart HarrisonBoard: 1969–1979Chair: 1974–1978Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees Committee and Mayor, City of ClevelandIn 1977, H. Stuart Harrison (1909–1980) retired as chairman of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, which under his leadership had grown from a moderate-size firm to one of the largest independent ore producers. After graduating from Yale University with a degree in finance and economics during the depths of the Depression, Harrison took a job as a steelworker in the Corrigan-McKinney Steel plant where his father was an executive. He switched to the banking profession and landed a job as a steel industry analyst for an investment firm in New York. One of Harrison’s reports so impressed the president of Cleveland-Cliffs that he hired him to manage the company’s investments. From 1937 to 1960 Harrison rose through the ranks to president, then to chief executive officer in 1961 and board chairman in 1974.Harrison’s civic activities were legion. He served as chairman of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, president of the Children’s Aid Society, president of University School and the Yale Scholarship Committee and vice chair of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. He co-founded and chaired the Businessmen’s Interracial Committee, sat on the finance committee of the Cleveland Institute of Art, and served as chair of University Circle Inc., vice chair of University Hospitals, and trustee of the Federation for Community Planning, United Way Services and Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival.View in Timeline×Picture of H. Stuart HarrisonGwill L. York NewmanBoard: 1969–1979Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of Cleveland and Bank TrusteesRead BioGwill L. York NewmanBoard: 1969–1979Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of Cleveland and Bank TrusteesGwill Linderme York Newman (1932–2010), a native Clevelander, graduated first in her class at Laurel School and then attended Vassar College (A.B., 1954) and the Sorbonne. She married stockbroker Scott York and began actively volunteering. As president of the Junior League of Cleveland in the late 1960s, she changed the membership requirements to include qualified women of all races and religions and worked for integration of the league’s national conferences. She served as a trustee of United Way Services and president of the Cleveland Music School Settlement, and co-founded the Playhouse Square Association. In 1975, she chaired the International Women’s Year gathering in Cleveland, which attracted some 50,000 attendees.After a divorce, she married Bruce Newman, executive director of the Chicago Community Trust. The 1982 death of her 22-year-old son from paranoid schizophrenia led her to advocate for the treatment and support of people with mental and neurological illnesses. She became president and later chair of the Brain Research Foundation in Chicago, and the first president of the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.×Picture of Gwill L. York NewmanGeorge E. EnosBoard: 1972–1972Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioGeorge E. EnosBoard: 1972–1972Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeGeorge E. Enos (1916–1972) was president of the Enos Coal Mining Company. Headquartered in Cleveland, Enos Coal’s Indiana surface mines produced bituminous coal for electrical utilities and general industrial use. In 1963, the Interlake Iron Corporation, a Cleveland-based producer of merchant iron and ferro-alloys, acquired Enos Coal and elected George Enos to its board of directors. He became chairman of the executive committee of Interlake Inc. of Chicago and was a director of the Youngstown Steel Door Company.×Picture of George E. EnosRobert D. GriesBoard: 1972–1982Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeRead BioRobert D. GriesBoard: 1972–1982Appointing Authority: Distribution CommitteeA fifth-generation Clevelander, Bob Gries spent 30 years as a venture capitalist and 50 years involved with the Cleveland Browns. His family first came to the city in 1837 and has steadfastly participated in its philanthropic and civic life. Gries, a graduate of Yale, has served on more than three dozen nonprofit boards, including the national board of the Council on Foundations. He helped to establish and was the first chair of the Grantmakers Forum of Northeast Ohio (Philanthropy Ohio). He has worked closely with the municipal school district twice, most recently as chair of the civic committee that recommended and then helped raise a bond issue providing more than $1 billion for repair of the city’s schools. For the past 30 years Gries’s avocation has been endurance adventures; he has completed 100 events in running, mountain climbing, high-altitude hiking and biking on all continents. His wife, Sally, currently serves on the board of the Cleveland Foundation and chairs its investment committee.×Picture of Robert D. GriesG. J. TankersleyBoard: 1973–1974Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioG. J. TankersleyBoard: 1973–1974Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeGeorge Jackson “Jack” Tankersley (1921–1995) was president and then chairman of the East Ohio Gas Company from 1966 to 1974. Born in Stahlstown, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Auburn University in 1943 with a degree in mechanical engineering. After serving in the Pacific with the Navy during World War II, he returned to Auburn as a member of the engineering faculty. His career in the gas industry began in 1949 when he joined the Gas Light Company in Columbus, Georgia, as an industrial engineer; in 1957, he became president of Western Kentucky Gas. He joined the Pittsburgh-based Consolidated Natural Gas Company (CNG) in 1966 as president of its largest subsidiary, East Ohio Gas in Cleveland. After Tankersley’s appointment as head of CNG in 1974, he led the interstate pipeline company into gas and oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, a venture that eventually turned CNG into a significant producer. He retired as chairman in 1987.Tankersley was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as the first chairman of the National Alliance of Businessmen in Cleveland, working to promote the hiring of members of minorities, and he served on Mayor Carl Stokes’s Council on Youth Opportunity. He was chairman of the Pittsburgh branch of the Federal Reserve Bank and vice chair of the board of the University of Pittsburgh. He served with the Boy Scouts and Junior Achievement through most of his career, and was inducted into the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame in 1994.×Picture of G. J. TankersleyFrances M. KingBoard: 1974–1978Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioFrances M. KingBoard: 1974–1978Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeFrances Monroe King earned a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree from Boston University. She taught for two years at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then worked in Boston at the Human Engineering Laboratory, which administered aptitude tests with the goal of placing people in suitable jobs. In 1946, she married Drue King Jr., a graduate of Harvard and Tufts University School of Medicine who would become a pioneering internist. The couple moved to Cleveland in 1953. Drue King taught at Western Reserve University’s medical school, helped to found Forest City Hospital and ran clinics at St. Luke and Mt. Sinai medical centers. Fran King—in addition to rearing four children and serving as a board member and president of the Shaker Heights PTA Council, and as a Girl Scout leader—immersed herself in the city’s larger civic life. She was a board member and president of the Friendly Inn Settlement and served as president of the YWCA of Cleveland from 1974 to 1977. In 1984, the YWCA presented her with the Esgar Award, its top award for service to the organization and the community. She is a former trustee of the Shaker Schools Foundation and an emeritus member of the Benjamin Rose Institute’s board of directors.×Picture of Frances M. KingWilliam J. O’Neill Sr.Board: 1974–1978Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioWilliam J. O’Neill Sr.Board: 1974–1978Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyIn 1899, Hugh O’Neill, an Irish horseman who had come to Cleveland as a teenager, started a cartage firm using horse-drawn wagons. In 1912, he began replacing the wagons with trucks, with his three sons working for him after school hours. The family business would eventually grow into the worldwide Leaseway Transportation Corporation, with the youngest of the three brothers, William (1906–1983), becoming its first president and developing the concept of leasing vehicles to service-specific industries such as retail, automotive and newspaper delivery. A graduate of St. Ignatius High School and the University of Notre Dame, Bill O’Neill inherited his father’s love of horses, keeping a stable of polo ponies and show jumpers. He was also a partner in the New York Yankees. In 1975, he retired as Leaseway’s chief executive officer but continued as a director. He was a trustee of St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Gilmour Academy, Cleveland Safety Council and Trinity College in Washington, D.C. Throughout his life, O’Neill was noted for his philanthropy. A few years after his death, his wife, Dorothy, and their eldest son, William Jr., established the William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation, a private family foundation that partners with other nonprofits to improve the quality of life for families in communities where the O’Neill family lives.×Picture of William J. O’Neill Sr.George B. Chapman Jr.Board: 1974–1984Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioGeorge B. Chapman Jr.Board: 1974–1984Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioGeorge Byron “Chappie” Chapman Jr. (1917–2012) was a successful life and group insurance salesman. Born in Cleveland, he graduated from University School in 1935 following training at Howe Military Academy, and continued his education at Princeton University (class of 1939). From 1940 to 1946 he served in the 107th Cavalry, with overseas service in Korea. Once back in Cleveland, he joined his father in management of an Aetna agency that was one of the country’s leading sales agencies, while also working for Lubrizol Corporation as the division head of personnel and public relations. He resigned from Aetna in 1967 to set up an independent agency, Chapman & Chapman, where he served as president until 1982. The fifth-generation family business is now run by his sons.Chapman served as chairman of the Northeast Ohio American Heart Association and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. He volunteered as a Cleveland Clinic Ambassador, served for over a decade on the United Way One Fund drive, and was a lifetime trustee of University School. Chapman provided financial gifts that were key to the founding of the Aurora Memorial Library in 1966. Additional funding in 1971 led to the establishment of a performing arts center at the library.×Picture of George B. Chapman Jr.Walter O. SpencerBoard: 1975–1976Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioWalter O. SpencerBoard: 1975–1976Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeWalter O. Spencer was elected president of the Sherwin-William Company in 1969 and named chief executive officer in 1971. He had joined the company in 1949 as a paint formulator in Cleveland following his graduation from Western Reserve University. In 1951, he transferred to Havana as assistant manager of the Sherwin-Williams Company of Cuba, then went on to supervise company facilities in Venezuela, Vancouver, Cleveland and Chicago. Returning to Cleveland once again in 1965, he served in successive managerial and executive positions. In 1978, he resigned from the company (stating that the job was “no longer any fun”), and the following year became dean of Tulane University’s graduate school of business administration. He left the academic post 15 months later, citing lack of both autonomy and funds at the school. Spencer served on the boards of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, Musical Arts Association and United Way, and was a member of the Cleveland Commission on Higher Education.×Picture of Walter O. SpencerFrederick M. ColemanBoard: 1975–1981Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioFrederick M. ColemanBoard: 1975–1981Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandGeorgia-born Frederick M. Coleman (1917–1989) came to Cleveland with his family as a child and attended the city’s public schools, graduating from East High School in 1936. After serving in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, Coleman was a lieutenant in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and then a member of the Ohio National Guard and Army Reserve. In 1949, he graduated from Western Reserve University with a degree in business administration, then went on to earn two degrees from Cleveland-Marshall Law School. He began his legal career in private practice, then ran unsuccessfully for Congress. During his subsequent 20-year public career, Coleman served as U.S. attorney for northern Ohio and as a judge in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and Cleveland Municipal Court. He served as president of the Federation for Community Planning and was active in the YMCA, Welfare Federation of Cleveland, Urban League, United Way, NAACP and Family Service Association.×Picture of Frederick M. ColemanThomas V. H. VailBoard: 1976–1986Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioThomas V. H. VailBoard: 1976–1986Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandThomas V. H. Vail was the publisher and editor of the Plain Dealer. He is the great-grandson of Liberty Holden, who had purchased the daily newspaper in 1885. Vail served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1944–46, graduating from Princeton in 1948. He worked as a reporter for the former Cleveland News (which was also owned by his family’s publishing company) and served as its political editor for four years. Then he transferred to the PD, where he worked in the advertising, production, circulation and labor relations departments; in 1963, he became the paper’s publisher and editor. The PD was sold to the Newhouse chain of newspapers in 1967, with Vail continuing in his dual role until 1990. He retired as chairman in 1991.In 1978, Vail launched the New Cleveland Campaign to promote the area’s many cultural, entertainment and industrial assets. He co-founded Cleveland Tomorrow (now the Greater Cleveland Partnership), a group of business leaders who work to improve the city’s building and industrial base by bringing business and government together. He has served as a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Council on World Affairs and the Committee for Economic Development.×Picture of Thomas V. H. VailThomas W. MastinBoard: 1977–1982Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioThomas W. MastinBoard: 1977–1982Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeThomas Mastin (1913–1998), chairman of Lubrizol Corporation, held 25 patents and was instrumental in the development and commercialization of many of the company’s products. Born in New Castle, Indiana, he earned advanced degrees in chemistry from the University of Illinois (M.S., 1939; Ph.D., 1942). He began his career with Lubrizol (then known as Cleveland Industrial Research Company) as a chemist in 1942, and three years later was named the company’s first director of research and development. Rising through Lubrizol’s executive ranks, he became president, CEO and chairman in 1972. He retired in 1982.Mastin encouraged science and environmental education through major donations to programs at Lakeland Community College, Andrews School, Lake Metroparks and Lake Erie College. He was a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Grand River Academy, Euclid General Hospital, Lake Erie College, Northeast Ohio Council of Boy Scouts of America, Wabash College, Community Dialysis Center, Holden Arboretum, Council for Educational Growth and National History Day. He chaired the Cleveland section of the American Chemical Society and the Cleveland Association of Research Directors.×Picture of Thomas W. MastinM. Brock WeirBoard: 1977–1983Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningRead BioM. Brock WeirBoard: 1977–1983Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningM. Brock Weir (1921–1996) was chairman and chief executive officer of Ameritrust Company. Born in Wenatchee, Washington, Weir served as an Army captain during World War II. He joined the National Bank of Commerce in Seattle in 1947 after earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. In 1963, having completed postgraduate studies at the Dartmouth Graduate School of Financial Management, Weir joined the San Francisco-based Bank of California as a vice president. He was the bank’s president before coming to Cleveland in 1973 to assume the post of president and chief executive of Cleveland Trust. The following year he became chairman and CEO of the bank’s holding company, CleveTrust Corporation, which later adopted the name Ameritrust. He was named chairman of the bank in 1978.Weir served as a trustee of John Carroll University and on the advisory board of Notre Dame College. He was a board member of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association was involved with the United Way campaigns, the Society for Crippled Children and WVIZ/PBS. In 1983, he retired from Ameritrust and moved to California.×Picture of M. Brock WeirDavid G. HillBoard: 1977–1987Appointing Authority: Chief Justice, Court of Appeals, 8th Judicial DistrictRead BioDavid G. HillBoard: 1977–1987Appointing Authority: Chief Justice, Court of Appeals, 8th Judicial DistrictDavid Hill (1932–2005) was a partner in the law firm of Bartunek, Garofoli & Hill and president of David Gordon Hill & Associates, a management consultant firm that worked with minority business enterprises. Born in Pittsburgh, he worked his way through the University of Pittsburgh (A.B., 1955), served in Europe as an Air Force officer, then attended Ohio State University’s College of Law (J.D., 1960), where he was an associate editor of the law journal and on the honors council. Hill was working as the director of Pittsburgh’s anti-poverty agency when Cleveland mayor Carl Stokes asked him to become the city’s first director of human resources and economic development. After a decade of public service, he went into private law practice in 1972, then opened a consulting business in 1985.Hill served as vice president of the Ohio Board of Regents and United Way Services, chaired Cleveland State University’s board of trustees, and sat on the boards of the Cleveland Play House, Cleveland Public Radio, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He was a life member of the NAACP and chairman of Mosaica, a Washington-based organization that helps nonprofit groups succeed in multicultural communities.×Picture of David G. HillCharles E. HugelBoard: 1978–1978Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioCharles E. HugelBoard: 1978–1978Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeCharles Hugel was president and chief executive officer of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company from 1975 to 1978. He joined New Jersey Bell in 1952, after graduating from Lafayette College. In 1978, he was named an executive vice president of AT&T in New York. He later became president and then chairman of Connecticut-based Combustion Engineering, retiring from the company in 1991. Hugel chaired the 1978 United Way of Greater Cleveland campaign and served as vice chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and on the board of Cleveland Clinic.×Picture of Charles E. HugelStanley C. PaceBoard: 1978–1985Chair: 1979–1985Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioStanley C. PaceBoard: 1978–1985Chair: 1979–1985Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeStan Pace was vice chairman of TRW Inc. and later chairman and chief executive officer of General Dynamics Corporation. A native of Waterview, Kentucky (his mother was the first woman elected sheriff in the state), he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1943. He would later earn a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. During World War II, Pace flew 39 combat missions over Europe; he was shot down in 1944 and spent the next 10 months in German hospitals and prison camps. In 1954, he joined Thompson Products (later known as TRW) as general manager of its automobile parts plant in Los Angeles, and the following year came to Cleveland to manage Thompson’s jet engine division. In 1977, he was elected president and chief operating officer, and set about expanding TRW’s space and defense products lines. In 1985, on the brink of retirement, Pace was asked to join the embattled General Dynamics, the nation’s leading military contractor, which had been charged with pervasive misconduct in the awarding of government defense contracts. After getting the company back on track, he retired in 1990.Pace served on the national boards of the Boy Scouts of America and Junior Achievement. He was a Cleveland Council commissioner for five years and helped to found the Greater Cleveland Roundtable. In 1984, he chaired United Way of Greater Cleveland’s annual fund drive, and in 1988 he was appointed U.S. national chairman for United Nations Day. He is an honorary director of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The Ethics Resource Center in Arlington, Virginia, annually bestows the Stanley C. Pace Leadership in Ethics Award to recognize accomplishments in ethical business management.View in Timeline×Picture of Stanley C. PaceSally K. GriswoldBoard: 1978–1988Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioSally K. GriswoldBoard: 1978–1988Appointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeSally Kenny Griswold, a former schoolteacher, served two terms on the Shaker Heights School Board. She was an honorary trustee of John Carroll University (and past president of the board), a member of the visiting committee of the College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, and a member of United Way Services’ delegate assembly. Pursuing a longtime special interest in health and aging, she served on the women’s council of the Golden Age Centers of Greater Cleveland, the advisory committee of the Regional Perinatal Network at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, and the development committees of St. Luke’s Hospital and the Young Women’s Christian Association. An alumna of Cleveland Heights High School and the University of Michigan, Griswold earned a master’s degree in guidance and counseling from John Carroll University in 1976. She received the Lake Erie Girl Scout Council’s 1992 “Woman of Distinction” Award and the 2005 Herbert E. Strawbridge Lifetime Achievement Award from Vocational Guidance Services.×Picture of Sally K. GriswoldVincent G. MarottaBoard: 1979–1982Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioVincent G. MarottaBoard: 1979–1982Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioVincent Marotta was chairman of North American Systems Inc., which introduced the Mr. Coffee home-brewing machine in 1972. The son of Italian immigrants, Marotta graduated from Shaker Heights High School (named an All-Scholastic football player in his senior year) and enrolled at Mount Union College. World War II intervened, and after his freshman year he was drafted into the U.S. armed forces. Following military service he returned to Mount Union, where he excelled in football and track. He earned a tryout with the Cleveland Browns after graduation and then embarked on a career in construction and real-estate development as president of Marotta-Glazer Company.Marotta and his wife, Ann, established the Marotta Montessori Schools of Cleveland. He has served as regional director of the Amateur Athletic Union, board member of the Diabetic Association of Cleveland and trustee of Mount Union College.×Picture of Vincent G. MarottaRichard W. PogueBoard: 1979–1989Chair: 1985–1989Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioRichard W. PogueBoard: 1979–1989Chair: 1985–1989Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeDick Pogue became acting managing partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue on March 1, 1984, and managing partner one year later. During his years of service in these roles, the firm grew significantly and for the first time entered international markets. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 10 Pogue moved with his family to Washington, D.C., where his father would become chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board. He graduated from Cornell University in 1950 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1953. After a three-year stint in the Office of the Judge Advocate General at the Pentagon, he arrived in Cleveland in 1957 to join Jones Day. He retired from the firm in 1994, signed on as senior advisor at Dix & Eaton, then rejoined Jones Day in 2004.Pogue began his civic service in Cleveland as a volunteer at the Goodrich Settlement House working with teenage boys, and eventually became board president. He has served as chairman of many organizations, including the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, University Hospitals, City Club, Business Volunteers Unlimited, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and Presidents’ Council Foundation. He chaired Cleveland’s 1989 United Way campaign and served as co-chairman of the city’s 1996 Bicentennial Commission. In the field of education, Pogue has served as a trustee of Case Western Reserve University, University of Akron and Cleveland Institute of Music. He was chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Higher Education and the Economy in 2003–04 and later was a founding trustee of the Business Alliance on Higher Education and the Economy. In 2009, Pogue was named board chair of the American Red Cross of Greater Cleveland. He currently serves as a trustee of Philanthropy Ohio.View in Timeline×Picture of Richard W. PogueHarvey G. OppmannBoard: 1981–1991Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioHarvey G. OppmannBoard: 1981–1991Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyHarvey Oppmann is the owner and developer of various real estate projects in Cleveland and other U.S. cities. In 1978, he purchased The Arcade, built in 1890 as one of America’s first indoor shopping centers (and the first Cleveland building to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places), and restored much of it to its original splendor. He chaired the Ohio Building Authority, overseeing the construction of $800 million in state buildings. An active civic leader with a special interest in education and culture, he was board chair of the Cleveland Institute of Art and a trustee of Hawken School, College Now (formerly Cleveland Scholarship Programs) and Western Reserve Historical Society.×Picture of Harvey G. OppmannAnn L. MarottaBoard: 1982–1984Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioAnn L. MarottaBoard: 1982–1984Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioAnn Laughlin Marotta was closely associated with the work of the late Sister Henrietta Gorris, CSA, whose Famicos Foundation grew out of Our Lady of Fatima Mission Center in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. The mission helped to feed, house and educate young children growing up in poverty. Marotta was a diligent volunteer, collecting food and delivering it to the mission. In 1979, she was among the six original board members of the Cleveland Foodbank, which supplies food to soup kitchens, shelters, food pantries and hunger centers. In 1981, the organization distributed one million pounds of food to 129 agencies; in 2012, it worked with more than 700 programs to reach underserved populations in six Ohio counties with nutrition education, benefit application assistance and the distribution of more than 35 million pounds of food. Marotta served on the advisory board of the Office on School Monitoring and Community Relations and as a trustee of the Goodrich Social Settlement. She and her husband, Vincent Marotta, established the Marotta Montessori Schools of Cleveland. A graduate of Ursuline College, she chaired fundraising benefits for Catholic Charities and St. Vincent Charity Hospital.×Picture of Ann L. MarottaRoy H. HoldtBoard: 1982–1988Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioRoy H. HoldtBoard: 1982–1988Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRoy Holdt (1920–2001) retired as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of White Consolidated Industries, a manufacturer of machine tools and home appliances. In 1985, Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland named him Business Executive of the Year. Born in Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, Holdt served with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II and was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Bronze Star from the French government. After graduating from Dyke College in Cleveland, he went to work for Apex Electrical Manufacturing, which was acquired by White Consolidated in 1956. He was named executive vice president in 1969, president and chief operating officer in 1972, and chairman and CEO in 1976. Holdt served on the boards of Cleveland Tomorrow, Greater Cleveland Roundtable, Leadership Cleveland, PlayhouseSquare Foundation, Cleveland Vocational Guidance Services and Dyke College.×Picture of Roy H. HoldtHenry J. GoodmanBoard: 1982–1992Appointing Authority: Committee of 5Read BioHenry J. GoodmanBoard: 1982–1992Appointing Authority: Committee of 5Henry Goodman was president of H. Goodman Inc. (now the White Dove Mattress Company). He pursued a special interest in health issues as vice chair of the Health Services Association of Northeast Ohio and as a member of the executive committee of Mt. Sinai Hospital and the advisory board of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He has served as treasurer of the Council of Jewish Federations and trustee of North Coast Development Corporation. He is a past president of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and Cleveland Hillel Foundation, and is a life director of United Way of Greater Cleveland. During Goodman’s term as chair of Cleveland State University’s board of trustees, the university created its first modern residence hall, built a music and communications building, and developed the 17th-18th Street Block Project, which is now home to CSU’s colleges of business and urban affairs. The university’s sports arena is named in his honor.×Picture of Henry J. GoodmanAndrea TaylorBoard: 1984–1988Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioAndrea TaylorBoard: 1984–1988Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioAndrea Taylor is director of citizenship and public affairs for the Microsoft Corporation. She came to Microsoft in 2006 after serving as vice president of the Boston-based Education Development Center and president of the Benton Foundation in Washington, D.C. From 1988 to 1997 she directed the Ford Foundation’s media program, leaving the foundation to become managing founder and partner of Davis Creek Capital, a media and technology firm that helped companies to enhance opportunities for women and minorities by developing and executing strategic plans and raising capital. She is a trustee of Boston University (B.S., 1968), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and New York Public Radio, and serves on the corporate committee of the Council on Foundations.During her years in Cleveland, Taylor was president of Coastal Communications, a marketing and communications firm. She served as president of A Better Chance, Inc., a nationwide program that sought out talented minority students, vice president of United Way Services, president of YWCA Greater Cleveland and trustee of Hawken School and the Women’s Law Fund.×Picture of Andrea TaylorJohn J. DwyerBoard: 1984–1992Chair: 1989–1992Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningRead BioJohn J. DwyerBoard: 1984–1992Chair: 1989–1992Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningJack Dwyer (1917–2005) was the retired head of the Oglebay Norton Company; he led the mining and lake transportation concern for 12 years until 1982. Born in Gary, Indiana, he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1944 and came to Cleveland to work with the firm of Thompson, Hine & Flory. He joined Oglebay Norton two years later, and in 1970 became the company’s president and chief executive officer. After Dwyer left Oglebay Norton, he returned to Thompson Hine as a partner. As chairman of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association in the early 1980s, he helped bring together government and corporate officials as the city emerged from default. He also served as a director of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority.Dwyer was chairman, president or trustee of organizations that included the Red Cross, United Way, Federation for Community Planning and Musical Arts Association. He was on the boards of University Hospitals and St. Vincent Charity Hospital Development Fund Company. He was a life trustee of Notre Dame College and a major fundraiser and trustee for his alma mater, DePauw University (class of 1939), and also served as a trustee of John Carroll University and Laurel and Glen Oak schools. He was the founding chairman of the Cleveland Education Fund.View in Timeline×Picture of John J. DwyerLindsay J. MorgenthalerBoard: 1984–1994Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioLindsay J. MorgenthalerBoard: 1984–1994Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeWell-known civic leader Lindsay Jordan Morgenthaler has served as a trustee of the PlayhouseSquare Foundation, Case Western Reserve University, Leadership Cleveland and Cleveland Ballet. She was also a longtime trustee of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, where she chaired the President’s Circle, and WVIZ/PBS, where she headed two highly successful auctions. She was a past president of the Great Lakes Theater Festival, serving as a trustee for 21 years. Over the past 50 years, Morgenthaler and her husband, David, have made significant philanthropic gifts, funding a professorship of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon, a founding sponsorship of the Entrepreneurship Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Morgenthaler Fellows Program at the Cleveland Clinic and the David T. Morgenthaler II Fellows Program at Stanford University. In 2006, a $1 million gift from the Morgenthalers allowed the Idea Center at Playhouse Square to establish an endowment at the Cleveland Foundation.×Picture of Lindsay J. MorgenthalerE. Bradley JonesBoard: 1985–1989Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioE. Bradley JonesBoard: 1985–1989Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeE. Bradley Jones retired as chairman and chief executive officer of LTV Steel Company in 1984, the same year that LTV merged with Republic Steel. Bradley had joined Republic Steel in 1954, rising through the ranks to executive vice president, president and then, in 1982, chairman and CEO. Born in Cleveland in 1927, he graduated from Yale University in 1950 with a degree in economics, then served with the Corps of Army Engineers and the Counterintelligence Corps. In 1968, he completed Harvard Business School’s advanced management program.Jones served as a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Musical Arts Association and Playhouse Square Foundation, and as chair of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He was a member of the Ten Plus Executive Committee of United Way Services and vice president of the board of Cleveland’s University School.×Picture of E. Bradley JonesJames M. DelaneyBoard: 1986–1996Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioJames M. DelaneyBoard: 1986–1996Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandJim Delaney, retired office managing partner of Deloitte & Touche, served as financial supervisor to the commission overseeing the city of Cleveland’s fiscal recovery in the 1980s. He chaired the Mayor’s Operation Volunteer Effort (MOVE Program) and served as vice chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. His special concern for education and youth led to his roles as vice president of Youth Opportunities Unlimited and trustee of Beaumont School and John Carroll University. He also chaired Case Western Reserve University’s advisory council for its five-year graduate accountancy program and served on the visiting committee of the Weatherhead School of Management. After completing his term on the Cleveland Foundation’s board, Delaney served for several years as an external advisor to the foundation’s audit committee. He holds a master’s degree in accounting and business administration from Michigan State University.×Picture of James M. DelaneyRev. Elmo A. BeanBoard: 1987–1996Appointing Authority: Chief Justice, Court of Appeals, 8th Judicial DistrictRead BioRev. Elmo A. BeanBoard: 1987–1996Appointing Authority: Chief Justice, Court of Appeals, 8th Judicial DistrictPastor of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1980 to 1996, Rev. Elmo Bean also served as vice chair of the Cleveland chapter of Partners in Ecumenism, a national coalition of black churchpersons who are concerned with social, economic and political change. He was a member of Ministers’ Action Program, a coalition of local ministers organized to deal with issues and problems in the Greater Cleveland community; a counselor for Cleveland Counseling Service; and past president and vice president of local branches of the NAACP in Delaware. He also chaired the board of directors of Harambee: Services to Black Families, an agency that arranged the adoption of black children who were wards of the county and state. Bean is a graduate of Wilberforce University and Payne Theological Seminary.×Picture of Rev. Elmo A. BeanAdrienne L. JonesBoard: 1988–1998Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioAdrienne L. JonesBoard: 1988–1998Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioAdrienne Lash Jones spent her career at Oberlin College, retiring as emerita associate professor of African-American studies. She graduated from Fisk University (B.A., 1956), then went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in American studies from Case Western Reserve University. Her doctoral dissertation, Jane Edna Hunter: A Case Study of Black Leadership, 1915–1950, was published in 1983 and again in 1990 as part of a 16-volume series, Black Women in United States History. Her husband, L. Morris Jones, M.D., was one of the first African-American physicians to open a practice in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.Jones served on the boards of Karamu House, Federation for Community Planning and Women’s Community Foundation, and was national vice president of the YWCA. Past professional affiliations include Black Women’s Historians, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association and National Association for the Study of African American Life and History. An emeritus trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, she remains busy as a community activist.×Picture of Adrienne L. JonesJerry V. JarrettBoard: 1988–1998Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningRead BioJerry V. JarrettBoard: 1988–1998Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningJerry Jarrett, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Ameritrust Company and its holding company, Ameritrust Corporation, was chair of Baldwin Wallace College, treasurer of the Musical Arts Association and a trustee of the Holden Arboretum and Center for Human Services. He chaired the 1986 United Way campaign which raised more than $47 million, and has served as chairperson of United Way Services, United Way Assembly and the Salvation Army. He is an emeritus trustee of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and honorary director of the Center for Families and Children. Jarrett received his bachelor’s degree in marketing and accounting from the University of Oklahoma and completed the master’s program in manufacturing and finance at Harvard Graduate School of Business.×Picture of Jerry V. JarrettAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Board: 1988–1998Chair: 1992–1996Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Board: 1988–1998Chair: 1992–1996Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeAlfred Rankin is chairman, president and chief executive officer of NACCO Industries and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, and chairman of Hamilton Beach Brands, The Kitchen Collection and North American Coal Corporation. Before joining NACCO, he served as vice chairman, chief operating officer and director of Eaton Corporation, and with McKinsey & Company. He is a director and member of the executive committee of the National Association of Manufacturers and serves as trustee and chairman of the board of University Hospitals of Cleveland, advisory chairman of the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art, trustee of the Musical Arts Association and trustee emeritus of Case Western Reserve University. In addition to his past service as board chair of the Cleveland Foundation, Rankin is a former member of the boards of trustees of Oberlin College, the Holden Arboretum and the World Resources Institute, and former board president of Hathaway Brown. A former director and chairman of the board of the Fourth District Federal Reserve Bank, Rankin holds a B.A. in economics and a J.D. from Yale University.View in Timeline×Picture of Alfred M. Rankin Jr.Annie Lewis GardaBoard: 1989–1994Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioAnnie Lewis GardaBoard: 1989–1994Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeAnnie Lewis Garda has a distinguished record of service in both the public and nonprofit sectors. In the early 1980s she coordinated the Mayor’s Operation Volunteer Effort (Project MOVE) in which 1,000 loaned executives and volunteers helped revamp Cleveland’s municipal finances and city services in the wake of default. She also developed the Children’s Key Concerts Endowment during her presidency of the Junior Committee of the Cleveland Orchestra. Garda served on the boards of the MetroHealth System, Leadership Cleveland, Benjamin Rose Institute, Business Volunteerism Council, Musical Arts Association and Ohio East Area United Methodist Foundation, and was a member of the board of visitors for Trinity College of Duke University. She and her husband, Robert, currently reside in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.×Picture of Annie Lewis GardaRussell R. GiffordBoard: 1989–1994Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioRussell R. GiffordBoard: 1989–1994Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRussell Gifford retired as president of CNG Energy Services. He joined CNG in 1962 as a management trainee at the East Ohio Gas Company, becoming president of East Ohio Gas in 1989, then moved to CNG Energy Services as president in 1994. Gifford served as chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and North Coast Harbor Inc. He was a trustee of Cleveland Tomorrow, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and University Hospitals, and served on the boards of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross, Baldwin Wallace College, Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland and PlayhouseSquare Foundation, and on the advisory board of the Salvation Army. Gifford is a life trustee of Youth Opportunities Unlimited. He holds a B.S. in math from Heidelberg College and a B.S. in civil engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.×Picture of Russell R. GiffordJames V. PattonBoard: 1991–2001Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioJames V. PattonBoard: 1991–2001Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyJim Patton, a retired vice president of Medical Mutual of Ohio and member of its board of directors, serves as a consultant in government relations, health policies and business affairs. He has served on the executive committee of the National Foundation of the March of Dimes in Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland Academy of Medicine’s Cost Containment Committee on Health Education, and as vice chair of new business development for United Way Services. He has also served on the boards of the Cleveland Advertising Club and Holy Name High School, the advisory board of Catholic Social Services of Cuyahoga County, and as a trustee of the American Cancer Society’s Cuyahoga County Division. Upon his retirement from the Cleveland Foundation board, Patton served as a trustee of Suite 1300 Services Inc., the foundation’s separate nonprofit arm which sponsors charitable programs and provides fiscal and administrative services as well as technical assistance to community projects and initiatives. He is a graduate of Cleveland State University and holds a certificate in business management from John Carroll University.×Picture of James V. PattonDoris A. EvansBoard: 1992–2002Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioDoris A. EvansBoard: 1992–2002Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeEarly in life, Chicago native Doris Anita Evans developed two overriding passions: medicine and golf. She played competitive junior golf and considered becoming a pro, but opted instead for a career in pediatric medicine. After graduating from the University of Chicago (A.B., 1963), she came east to Cleveland to earn an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University, where she is now a clinical professor of pediatrics. Remaining an avid golfer, in 2004 Evans found the perfect way to combine her interest in the sport with her interest in children. She became the executive director of The First Tee of Cleveland, a nonprofit organization with a novel mission: to positively impact the lives of young people from greater Cleveland by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf. During her six-year tenure with The First Tee, she oversaw the opening of the organization’s 4,200-square-foot Life Skills Education Center in the Cleveland Metroparks’ Washington Reservation.Evans was a director of KeyBank and a trustee of Cuyahoga Community College Foundation. A member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Northern Ohio Pediatric Society and Cleveland Medical Association, she continues to care for children as a pediatrician. She is also a lifetime member of the NAACP and an active member of Fairmount Presbyterian Church.×Picture of Doris A. EvansCharles A. RatnerBoard: 1992–2002Chair: 1996–2000Appointing Authority: Committee of 5Read BioCharles A. RatnerBoard: 1992–2002Chair: 1996–2000Appointing Authority: Committee of 5Charles A. Ratner is chairman of the board of Forest City Enterprises Inc. He served as the company’s chief operating offer from 1993 to 1995, and then as president and chief executive officer for 16 years. During his tenure as CEO, Ratner guided Forest City on a growth trajectory that saw the company’s real estate assets at cost increase from $2.4 billion to $11.8 billion, earnings before depreciation and taxes from $82 million to $309.9 million, and market capitalization from $330 million to more than $3 billion.An active member of the community, Ratner serves on the boards of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, Musical Arts Association and United Way Services. He is on the board of the Jewish Community Federation and a trustee of the Mandel Associated Foundations and David and Inez Myers Foundation. Ratner is the former chairman of the board of trustees of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and the United Way, and past president of the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland. He graduated from Colgate University and New York University School of Law.View in Timeline×Picture of Charles A. RatnerJames E. Bennett IIIBoard: 1994–2004Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioJames E. Bennett IIIBoard: 1994–2004Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeJames Bennett is a senior vice president of Cleveland Medical Mart and Convention Center, a founding partner at Glengary LLC, senior managing director and senior advisor at Dix & Eaton Inc., and chairman and director of NextMED Systems. He was previously with McKinsey & Company, KeyCorp and EmployOn. At McKinsey, he served as managing director for Canada, managing director of the Cleveland/Pittsburgh Office Complex and member of the worldwide Shareholders Committee. At Key he headed retail banking and operational services.Bennett is well known for his civic leadership in the nonprofit sector, working in the fields of economic development, social services, healthcare delivery, education and the arts. He is a trustee of the Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation and the Cleveland Initiative for Education. He served as vice chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and trustee of United Way of Greater Cleveland, National Ballet of Canada and Hathaway Brown School. Bennett holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a juris doctor degree from Harvard University Law School.×Picture of James E. Bennett IIICatharine Monroe LewisBoard: 1994–2004Chair: 2000–2003Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioCatharine Monroe LewisBoard: 1994–2004Chair: 2000–2003Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeCathy M. Lewis has played a leadership role with many Cleveland organizations. She was a member of the Citizens Committee on AIDS/HIV, which devised Cleveland’s strategy for AIDS prevention, education and service delivery, and chaired its successor organization, the AIDS Funding Collaborative. She serves on the board of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love and was on the advisory committee for the Center for Global Child Health at Case Western Reserve University.A graduate of Smith College, Lewis has served as president of Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, vice chair of the Baldwin Wallace College board of trustees, and board member of the Gund Foundation. She received the Creative Philanthropy Award from the Women’s Community Foundation, the YWCA’s Career Women of Achievement Award and the March of Dimes Franklin Delano Roosevelt Award for Community Service. In 2007, she received the Ohio Philanthropy Award from Ohio Grantmakers (now Philanthropy Ohio).View in Timeline×Picture of Catharine Monroe LewisJerry Sue ThorntonBoard: 1995–2005Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioJerry Sue ThorntonBoard: 1995–2005Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandIn 2013, Jerry Sue Thornton retired as president of Cuyahoga Community College after 21 years at its helm. During her tenure, Tri-C added two corporate colleges, a campus in Westlake and a center in Brunswick, and developed a partnership with Case Western Reserve University that made it easier for Tri-C students to transfer. Before arriving in Cleveland in 1992, Thornton served as president of Lakewood Community College, now known as Century College, in Minnesota. She began her community college career in 1971 as an English faculty member at Triton College near Chicago, becoming dean of academic affairs. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.A. and B.A. from Murray State University. Thornton is a director of American Greetings Corporation and Applied Industrial Technologies Inc. She serves as a board member of United Way of Greater Cleveland, Greater Cleveland Partnership and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.×Picture of Jerry Sue ThorntonAlex MachaskeeBoard: 1996–2006Appointing Authority: Administrative Judge, 8th Ohio District Court of AppealsRead BioAlex MachaskeeBoard: 1996–2006Appointing Authority: Administrative Judge, 8th Ohio District Court of AppealsAlex Machaskee is the retired publisher, president and CEO of the Plain Dealer, Ohio’s largest newspaper. Before being named publisher in 1990, he served in a variety of roles at the PD: vice president and general manager, director of labor relations and personnel, assistant to the publisher and promotion director. Born in Warren, Ohio, Machaskee worked as a sports reporter and general assignment reporter for the Warren Tribune before joining the PD in 1960. He is a graduate of Cleveland State University with a bachelor’s degree in marketing.Machaskee is on the executive committee of the Musical Arts Association and chair of International Orthodox Christian Charities. He is an emeritus board member of the Cleveland Museum of Art and past chair and current board member of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. He is a board member of Crime Stoppers of Cuyahoga County, University Circle Inc., St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and Orthodox Christian Network. Machaskee served as chairman of the board for United Way Services in 2002–03 and chaired the 2000–01 United Way Campaign. In 2004 he was named a lifetime director of the organization.×Picture of Alex MachaskeeJohn Sherwin Jr.Board: 1996–2006Chair: 2003–2006Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioJohn Sherwin Jr.Board: 1996–2006Chair: 2003–2006Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeJack Sherwin is the president of Mid-Continent Ventures Inc. Prior to founding the company in 1985, he held various positions with Diamond Shamrock Corporation, domestically and overseas. Active in the community, Sherwin serves on the board of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and is a former board member of the Holden Arboretum and John Carroll University, a life trustee of Hawken School, and a trustee emeritus of the Westminster School and the Great Lakes Museum of Science, Environment and Technology. He has had a long involvement with the Cleveland Foundation, helping to establish the Lake-Geauga Fund in 1987 and serving as president of the Sherwick Fund, the nation’s first supporting organization affiliated with a community foundation, which was created by his father in 1969. Sherwin currently serves as an external advisor to the Cleveland Foundation’s audit committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from John Carroll University.View in Timeline×Picture of John Sherwin Jr.Benson P. LeeBoard: 1998–2008Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningRead BioBenson P. LeeBoard: 1998–2008Appointing Authority: Federation for Community PlanningBenson Lee is president and chief executive officer of Technology Management Inc., a developer of fuel cell systems. He is a trustee emeritus of Cornell University and is on the executive council of the Johnson School’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. He serves on the visiting committee of Cleveland State University’s Monte Ahuja College of Business, and is an advisor to Cleveland Bridge Builders, MotivAsians for Cleveland, Baldwin Wallace Sustainability Program and The Corporate Roundtable. He is a former trustee of the Center for Community Solutions, Cleveland Scholarship Programs and the Cleveland Arts Prize, and a founding trustee of the Cleveland Tomorrow Center for Venture Development, now JumpStart Inc. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University.×Picture of Benson P. LeeJacqueline F. WoodsBoard: 1998–2008Chair: 2006–2008Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioJacqueline F. WoodsBoard: 1998–2008Chair: 2006–2008Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeJacqueline F. Woods is the former president of AT&T Ohio. She serves on the boards of trustees of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Playhouse Square Foundation, Muskingum University, Kent State University and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. During her decade of service to the Cleveland Foundation, which included a term as board chair, Woods helped to advance the foundation’s work in the areas of economic development, globalization and alternative energy. She holds a master’s degree from the Executive M.B.A. program at Northwestern University and a B.A. in psychology from Muskingum College.View in Timeline×Picture of Jacqueline F. WoodsRev. Otis Moss Jr.Board: 1998–2009Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioRev. Otis Moss Jr.Board: 1998–2009Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioTheologian, pastor and civic leader, the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. is one of America’s most influential religious leaders. He is pastor emeritus at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, where he began serving in 1975. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed him to a newly established 25-member White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He also serves on the board of trustees at Morehouse College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1956. He holds an M.Div. degree from the Morehouse School of Religion/Interdenominational Theological Center and a D.Min. from the United Theological Seminary. From 1954 to 1961, Moss served as pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and from 1956 to 1961 was also pastor of Atlanta’s Providence Baptist Church. From 1961 to 1975, he pastored the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Lockland, Ohio, and in 1971 served as co-pastor with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.Moss was a founding board member of the Greater Cleveland Roundtable, which later became part of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. He has lectured at hundreds of colleges and churches throughout the world, including Oxford University and Yale Divinity School. In 2012, he was inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame.×Picture of Rev. Otis Moss Jr.Tana N. CarneyBoard: 2001–2011Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioTana N. CarneyBoard: 2001–2011Appointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyTana Carney has been an active volunteer for several nonprofit organizations, including the Cleveland Botanical Garden, West Side Ecumenical Ministry, Cuyahoga County Library Foundation, and Ingenuity, a Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology. She worked at the Cuyahoga County Treasurer’s Office as public information specialist and has served as staff associate for the Administration of Justice Committee. Carney holds a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College and a master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University.×Picture of Tana N. CarneyRic HarrisBoard: 2002–2005Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioRic HarrisBoard: 2002–2005Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeFrom 2000 to 2005, Ric Harris was vice president and general manager of WEWS-NewsChannel 5 in Cleveland. A Cleveland native, he attended John Carroll University, where he was a leader on two PAC championship basketball teams. He captained the team before graduating in 1986 with a degree in communications. Harris had deep roots in the city’s media communities, working in radio, newspapers, television and advertising before rising to lead WEWS’s news, information and entertainment operations. He served on the boards of several community and nonprofit organizations, including the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, Greater Cleveland Roundtable, Urban League of Greater Cleveland and John Carroll University. He is currently president and general manager of WVIT, an NBCUniversal television station operating in Hartford–New Haven, Connecticut.×Picture of Ric HarrisTerri Hamilton BrownBoard: 2002–2010Appointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioTerri Hamilton BrownBoard: 2002–2010Appointing Authority: Board of DirectorsTerri Hamilton Brown’s career includes executive and board positions in banking, housing, community development, economic development, nonprofit community organizations and community foundations. Since late 2011, Brown has been Midwest regional director of The Community Builders. In 1990, she joined the administration of Cleveland mayor Michael R. White as deputy community development director, later appointed director. Under her leadership, the city of Cleveland worked with private and nonprofit developers to spur a residential construction boom in both the neighborhoods and downtown. Brown took over as executive director of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority in 1998 and was responsible for turning around the troubled agency. During her five-year tenure, CMHA increased public housing occupancy rates, passed HUD physical inspections, produced auditable financial records, and advanced plans for mixed-income new construction developments through the federal HOPE VI program.Brown then spent two years as president of University Circle Incorporated (UCI), contributing to efforts for the long-awaited UpTown mixed-use development project. She joined National City Bank (now PNC) as senior vice president for corporate diversity and developed community programs and activities to achieve the corporation’s diversity goals. After nearly three years at the bank, Brown returned to nonprofit service as the lead consultant for the Opportunity Corridor, a transportation and economic development project for which she laid the groundwork while at UCI. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.×Picture of Terri Hamilton BrownDavid GoldbergBoard: 2002–2012Chair: 2008–2011Appointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioDavid GoldbergBoard: 2002–2012Chair: 2008–2011Appointing Authority: Board of DirectorsDavid Goldberg is a partner in Edgerton Investments, which owns and manages real estate and other investments in Ohio and Texas. He spent the majority of his career with AmTrust Bank, formerly Ohio Savings Bank, where he retired as chairman of the board in 2009. An alumnus of Shaker Heights High School, he graduated from Ohio State University (B.S., 1966) and Case Western Reserve University School of Law (J.D., 1969).Goldberg is a past chair of Neighborhood Progress Inc. and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, two organizations that drive economic development. He serves on the boards of University Hospitals, The Diversity Center and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which directs aid for nonsectarian relief, rescue and humanitarian work, and is a life director of the Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland. In 2003, along with other members of Cleveland’s Jewish and Palestinian communities, he formed Ishmael & Isaac to help victims of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.View in Timeline×Picture of David GoldbergAlayne L. ReitmanBoard: 2002–2012Appointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioAlayne L. ReitmanBoard: 2002–2012Appointing Authority: Board of DirectorsAlayne L. Reitman is a trustee and assistant treasurer of Hawken School, and a trustee of the Immerman Foundation and the Robert S. and Sylvia K. Reitman Family Foundation. She was president of Embedded Planet LLC (1999–2001), vice president and chief financial officer of The Tranzonic Companies Inc. (1993–98) and senior financial analyst for American Airlines (1991–93). She served as lead outside director of SIFCO Industries Inc. and has been a SIFCO director since 2002. Reitman holds a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.×Picture of Alayne L. ReitmanMaria José PujanaBoard: 2002–2012Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioMaria José PujanaBoard: 2002–2012Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeMaria Pujana, M.D., a clinical neurologist and neurophysiologist, is adjunct instructor at Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Global Health and Diseases in the School of Medicine. She also is president and designer of Marisé Jewelry Designs Company. She serves on the boards of the MetroHealth Foundation, Greater Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross, Beck Center for the Arts and Cleveland Institute of Art. She formerly served on the boards or in leadership positions for El Barrio, Hispanic Cultural Center, Cuyahoga Community College Foundation, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and Cleveland Ballet. Pujana earned her medical degree from Universidad Complutense of Madrid.×Picture of Maria José PujanaJoseph P. KeithleyBoard: 2002–2012Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioJoseph P. KeithleyBoard: 2002–2012Appointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeJoseph P. Keithley is the former chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Keithley Instruments, Inc., a Cleveland-based provider of advanced electrical instrumentation for the electronics industry. Upon graduation from Cornell University (B.S., 1971; M.S., Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, 1972), Keithley joined Eaton Corporation where he worked as a manufacturing engineer and later as a market research analyst in the Truck Component Group. In 1976, he received an M.B.A. with distinction from the University of Michigan and that same year joined Keithley Instruments, holding various positions in manufacturing, sales, marketing and division management. In 2010, the company was acquired by Danaher Corporation.Keithley is a member of the board of trustees of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the visiting committee of the Case School of Engineering. He also serves on the advisory council of Cornell University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He and his wife, Nancy, have endowed the Keithley Fund for Artistic Collaboration to support the Cleveland Orchestra’s collaborations with other major institutions in northeast Ohio, and particularly with the Cleveland Museum of Art. The gift will provide short-term funding for annual artistic collaboration, and provide a portion of endowment funding for the Cleveland Orchestra’s long-term goal of fully endowing artistic collaboration. In 2013, the couple funded the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Institute for Art History, a collaborative doctoral program between CWRU and the Cleveland Museum of Art.×Picture of Joseph P. KeithleyCharles P. BoltonBoard: 2004–PresentChair: 2011–2013Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioCharles P. BoltonBoard: 2004–PresentChair: 2011–2013Appointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioCharles P. Bolton is chairman of Brittany Stamping, a Cleveland private investment firm that owns four manufacturing companies, and Polychem Corp., a Mentor manufacturer of extruded polypropylene and polyester strapping used in commercial packaging. He is the former director of the Ohio Department of Development’s Office of International Trade and a former member of the Ohio Senate. Bolton is a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Musical Arts Association, the Payne Fund and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation; an honorary trustee and former chairman of the board of Case Western Reserve University; and a life trustee of Hawken School. He holds a bachelor’s degree in American history from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.View in Timeline×Picture of Charles P. BoltonSandra PianaltoBoard: 2004–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioSandra PianaltoBoard: 2004–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsAs president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Sandra Pianalto shouldered national and local leadership responsibilities. She participated in the formulation of U.S. monetary policy and oversaw 950 employees in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh who conduct economic research, supervise financial institutions and provide payment services to commercial banks and the U.S. government. Pianalto joined the bank in 1983 as an economist in the research department and the following year was appointed assistant vice president of public affairs; several years later she became vice president and secretary to the board of directors, the first vice president and chief operating officer. She took on the position of president in 2003, retiring in early 2014. Before joining the bank, she was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and served on the staff of the budget committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.Pianalto is vice chair of the board of University Hospitals and serves as a past chair and life director of the board of United Way of Greater Cleveland. She is an advisory trustee for the University of Akron (where she earned a bachelor’s degree in economics) and serves on the boards of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, Team Northeast Ohio, College Now Greater Cleveland and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. She earned a master’s degree in economics from George Washington University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.×Picture of Sandra PianaltoFrank C. SullivanBoard: 2004–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioFrank C. SullivanBoard: 2004–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeFrank C. Sullivan is chief executive officer of RPM International Inc., a multinational holding company with subsidiaries that manufacture and market high-performance coatings, sealants and specialty chemicals. His grandfather founded RPM’s forerunner, Republic Powdered Metals, in 1947. Sullivan began his career at RPM in 1987 as regional sales manager at RPM’s joint-venture AGR Company, then rose through the ranks as vice president of corporate development, chief financial officer, executive vice president, and president and chief operating officer. Before joining RPM he held various positions in the areas of commercial lending and corporate finance at Harris Bank and First Union National Bank. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina as a Morehead Scholar in 1983, and is a graduate of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association’s 2001 Leadership Cleveland Class.Sullivan serves on the boards of the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. He is a member of the Cuyahoga County Bluecoats, Inc. and a founding member of the Medina County Bluecoats Chapter. He is particularly devoted to charitable and civic organizations that focus on the educational development and support of children in northeastern Ohio.×Picture of Frank C. SullivanFrederick R. NanceBoard: 2005–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioFrederick R. NanceBoard: 2005–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeFrederick R. Nance is Squire Sanders’ regional managing partner, operating out of the firm’s Cleveland office (founded in 1890). His legal practice focuses on sports and entertainment law, commercial litigation, client counseling and public-private partnerships. A graduate of Harvard University (B.A., 1975) and the University of Michigan (J.D., 1978), Nance began his career at Squire Sanders directly from law school. From 1991 to 2001 he served as the primary outside counsel to the City of Cleveland and former Cleveland mayor Michael White in a variety of initiatives and projects, including spearheading the battle to keep the Browns football team in Cleveland. In 2006, he was selected as one of five finalists for the position of commissioner of the National Football League. In 2009, Nance joined the Browns’ front office, where he served for three years as general counsel while remaining a Squire Sanders partner. He is currently the Browns’ senior advisor and special counsel.Nance has served on the boards of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Foundation. He is a member of the executive committees of the Greater Cleveland Partnership and the Ohio Business Roundtable, and serves on the board of the Cleveland Clinic. In 2004–05, he chaired the Cleveland Defense Industry Alliance, which successfully retained 1,100 Department of Defense jobs that had been targeted for elimination. He was recently appointed by Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson to two boards dedicated to downtown and lakefront development.×Picture of Frederick R. NanceJames A. RatnerBoard: 2006–PresentChair: 2013–PresentAppointing Authority: Administrative Judge, 8th Ohio District Court of AppealsRead BioJames A. RatnerBoard: 2006–PresentChair: 2013–PresentAppointing Authority: Administrative Judge, 8th Ohio District Court of AppealsJames A. Ratner is an executive vice president and director of Forest City Enterprises, Inc., and chairman and CEO of Forest City Commercial Group, the commercial real estate development and management division of Forest City. The company emphasizes the development of urban retail and mixed-use properties and nonconventional regional and lifestyle centers. Before joining Forest City, Ratner spent five years at the Nasher Company, a privately owned real estate development firm in Dallas, where he was responsible for supervising new development projects.Ratner holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He serves as emeriti trustee at Case Western Reserve University and is a member of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Urban Land Institute and PlayhouseSquare Foundation.View in Timeline×Picture of James A. RatnerRev. Hilton O. SmithBoard: 2006–2011Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioRev. Hilton O. SmithBoard: 2006–2011Appointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandHilton O. Smith, an ordained minister, is senior vice president for corporate community affairs at Turner Construction Company, where he manages the company’s corporate community affairs, minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE), and equal employment and educational programs. Smith has actively led Turner’s efforts in awarding more than $20 billion to thousands of minority- and woman-owned business enterprises; for seven years, Turner has reached the $1 billion mark in the MWBE utilization program. Smith also oversees the Turner School of Construction Management, which annually coordinates and provides educational opportunities in the construction industry for small businesses. This widely recognized program has received many honors, including the U.S. Department of Labor’s EVE Award, U.S. Civil Rights Commission Award for Best Practices and U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency Minority Advocate Award. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and political science from St. Augustine’s College and studied urban theology at Yale University. In 2012, he was elected president of the Cleveland NAACP and served on the 25th Anniversary Milestone Committee of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS.×Picture of Rev. Hilton O. SmithPaul J. DolanBoard: 2008–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioPaul J. DolanBoard: 2008–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteePaul J. Dolan was named chairman and chief executive officer of the Cleveland Indians prior to the 2011 season. He had been the ball club’s president since 2004, and served as general counsel upon joining the organization in 2000. Born and raised in Geauga County, Dolan attended Gilmour Academy. He is a graduate of St. Lawrence University (B.A., 1980) and the University of Notre Dame’s Law School (J.D., 1983). Before joining the Indians, he was a partner at Thrasher, Dinsmore & Dolan. Dolan is involved with many philanthropic and civic boards throughout northeast Ohio, including the PlayhouseSquare Foundation, United Way of Greater Cleveland, Greater Cleveland Partnership and Great Lakes Science Center.×Picture of Paul J. DolanRatanjit S. SondheBoard: 2008–PresentAppointing Authority: Center for Community SolutionsRead BioRatanjit S. SondheBoard: 2008–PresentAppointing Authority: Center for Community SolutionsAn educator, author, lecturer, television and radio personality, scientist and entrepreneur, Ratanjit S. Sondhe emigrated from India to the United States in 1968 to complete his Ph.D. studies in polymer chemistry at the University of Akron. In 1973, he founded Poly-Carb, a construction and road-building materials corporation, remaining at the company’s helm until its acquisition by Dow Chemical in 2007. He is the founder of various entrepreneurial organizations and business groups, including the Multicultural Business Development Center, a nationwide initiative between the National Urban League, Kauffman Foundation and Business Roundtable that helps to develop new, culturally diverse business enterprises. A recipient of the 2010 Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame award, Sondhe is the author of TEA: The Recipe for Stress-Free Living and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Stress-Free Living.×Picture of Ratanjit S. SondheRev. Stephen RowanBoard: 2009–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioRev. Stephen RowanBoard: 2009–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeSince 1999, Stephen Rowan has been senior pastor of Bethany Baptist Church, where his father, the late Rev. Albert T. Rowan, ministered for 34 years. Rowan formerly served in a variety of roles at the Cleveland Foundation, including assistant director of development, program officer for faith-based and “digital divide” programs, and director of the foundation’s economic development grantmaking. He has been a partner at the law firm of Ulmer & Berne, a deputy administrator for Cuyahoga County, and assistant director of the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging. His civic service includes posts on committees or boards for a variety of organizations, including United Way, Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Adolescent Health and Meridia Health System. Rowan earned his doctor of ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary and his juris doctorate from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.×Picture of Rev. Stephen RowanInajo Davis ChappellBoard: 2010–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioInajo Davis ChappellBoard: 2010–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsA graduate of Yale University (B.A., 1982) and Columbia Law School (J.D., 1985), Inajo Davis Chappell chairs Ulmer & Berne’s Nonprofit Group. She represents for-profit businesses as well as public institutions and nonprofit entities. Her legal expertise focuses on various aspects of corporate law and corporate governance, general business transactions, and commercial real estate acquisition, development, construction and financing. Chappell has served as bond and company counsel to a variety of government and corporate clients. She has particular expertise representing school districts in the provision of educational programming and services to disabled students. In 2007, she was named an “Ohio Super Lawyer” in a survey conducted by Law & Politics and Cincinnati magazines.Born in New Orleans, Chappell grew up in East Cleveland and attended Hathaway Brown. Both of her parents were music teachers in the Cleveland school system. For five years she worked as in-house counsel to the business unit of the Cleveland Municipal School District. An active civic and community volunteer and leader, Chappell is a member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.×Picture of Inajo Davis ChappellBeth Oldenburg RankinBoard: 2011–PresentAppointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyRead BioBeth Oldenburg RankinBoard: 2011–PresentAppointing Authority: Presiding Judge, Probate Court of Cuyahoga CountyBeth Oldenburg Rankin is past co-president and current co-vice chair of the board for the Cleveland Play House, where her involvement has included annual and capital fundraising, facilities location review, strategic planning and development of a three-year M.F.A. conservatory program in partnership with Case Western Reserve University. Rankin also serves on the executive committee of Town Hall of Cleveland and is a past member of the board of Hathaway Brown and St. Paul’s School for Boys in Baltimore.×Picture of Beth Oldenburg RankinErnest L. Wilkerson Jr.Board: 2011–PresentAppointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandRead BioErnest L. Wilkerson Jr.Board: 2011–PresentAppointing Authority: Mayor, City of ClevelandBefore founding Wilkerson & Associates in 1991, Ernest L. Wilkerson Jr. served as an attorney with Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur and Baker & Hostetler. He graduated with honors in economics from Northwestern University (B.A., 1983) and went on to study law at the University of Pennsylvania (J.D., 1986), where he was editor of the Law Review. An alumnus of Leadership Cleveland, an organization that works for the betterment of the City of Cleveland, Wilkerson is active in the community, having served on the boards of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland State University, Ideastream and Cleveland Convention Center Facilities Authority.×Picture of Ernest L. Wilkerson Jr.Hiroyuki FujitaBoard: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioHiroyuki FujitaBoard: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsHiroyuki Fujita has capitalized on the two areas of innovation and commercialization predicted to drive the U.S. economy in the near future: health care/medical and clean energy. He is the founder, president and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics (QED), a manufacturer of state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coils. In 2009, Forbes magazine named QED one of the 20 Most Promising Companies in America. In 2010 and 2011, Inc. magazine listed QED in the Inc. 500, calling it one of America’s fastest growing companies and Fujita one of the country’s top entrepreneurs. Ernst & Young bestowed its Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award on him in 2010, the same year that he founded eQED, a solar energy company that manufactures and distributes highly efficient, cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-install solar microinverters.Fujita, a Japanese national, came to Cleveland in 1992 to attend Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D., 1998), which presented him with its Outstanding Recent Alumni Award in 2010. An adjunct professor of physics, radiology and electrical engineering at CWRU and the University of Queensland, Australia, he holds 15 patents and has published more than 30 papers and abstracts in respected engineering, imaging and physics journals. He has received numerous awards for excellence in imaging technology and manufacturing.×Picture of Hiroyuki FujitaSally GriesBoard: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeRead BioSally GriesBoard: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Trustees CommitteeSally Gries is the founder and chair of Gries Financial LLC, a multi-family wealth management firm for private clients, foundations and institutions. An avid reader of the Wall Street Journal as a teenager, she entered the male-dominated financial field in the late 1960s after graduating from Northwestern University. A decade later, she started her own company. She has the distinction of being the founder of the first female-owned money management and financial planning firm in Ohio.Gries also is a founder and chair of Fieldstone Associates Inc., a real estate investment advisory firm, and is an investment committee member of several large institutions. She is vice chair of Holden Arboretum’s board of directors, a life trustee of Hawken School and a trustee of Case Western Reserve University and Town Hall of Cleveland.×Picture of Sally GriesLarry PollockBoard: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioLarry PollockBoard: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsLarry Pollock is managing partner of Lucky Stars Partners LLC, a private investment firm that focuses on early-stage businesses, troubled businesses and real estate. From 2000 to 2004 he was president and chief executive officer of Cole National Corporation, owner of Pearle Vision stores and Cole Vision optical stores and Things Remembered personalized gift stores. His previous positions include president and CEO of HomePlace Stores, president and COO of Zale Corporation, and president and CEO of Karten’s Jewelers. From 1981 to 2000 Pollock was involved in buying, operating and selling broadcast properties, with ownership positions in seven radio stations, including the Cleveland stations WDOK, WWWE, WMJI, WRMR and WBBG. He began his professional career in 1969 at J. B. Robinson Jewelers, becoming president and CEO.Pollock serves on the board of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and holds trustee positions with the Musical Arts Association, ideastream, Kent State University, University School, Bellefaire JCB, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation and Wingspan Care Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Ohio State University.×Picture of Larry PollockMichael B. Petras Jr.Board: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioMichael B. Petras Jr.Board: 2012–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsMichael B. Petras Jr. is chief executive officer of HGI Holdings Inc., a distributor of medical supplies for patients with chronic diseases, including diabetes. Previously, he spent 18 years with GE Lighting, a $3 billion unit of General Electric headquartered in East Cleveland’s historic Nela Park. Petras served as president and CEO of GE’s LED business, vice president of Lighting and Electrical Distribution, and from 2008 to 2011, as GE Lighting’s president and CEO. He sat on the National Electrical Manufacturing Association’s board of governors.Petras is a board member of United Way of Cleveland and John Carroll University, and a past member of the boards of Greater Cleveland Partnership (one of the nation’s largest metropolitan chambers of commerce) and Achievement Centers for Children. In 2009, he was recognized by Achievement Centers as its “annual honoree.” He holds an M.B.A. in marketing from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor’s degree in finance from John Carroll University.×Picture of Michael B. Petras Jr.Teresa M. BeasleyBoard: 2014–PresentAppointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioRead BioTeresa M. BeasleyBoard: 2014–PresentAppointing Authority: Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioTeresa Metcalf Beasley was named a partner at Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP in 2014. She joined the law firm in 2011, and also serves as co-chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee.Beasley previously served as an attorney with Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP. She also was Director of Law for the City of Cleveland under Mayor Jane Campbell’s administration from 2003 to 2004.Beasley received the YWCA Women of Professional Excellence Award in 2011. She serves as a board member for Laurel School for Girls, Cleveland Botanical Garden, and Village Capital Corporation. She served as chair of the Cleveland Foundation’s African-American Philanthropy Committee from 2005 to 2011. She received her Juris Doctorate from Cleveland State University.×Picture of Teresa M. BeasleyJenniffer D. DeckardBoard: 2014–PresentAppointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeRead BioJenniffer D. DeckardBoard: 2014–PresentAppointing Authority: Bank Trustees CommitteeJenniffer D. Deckard is President & CEO of Fairmount Minerals. Deckard joined the company in 1994 and shortly was named Chief Financial Officer. She served in that capacity until being named President in 2011. Deckard was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2013. Last year, Jenniffer and her husband, Daryl, received the Cleveland Foundation’s Frederick Harris Goff Philanthropic Service Award. The couple was also named Geauga County Foster Parents of the Year. Deckard serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Business Advisory Council and is a board member for Greater Cleveland Partnership, Chardon Healing Fund, and First Tee of Cleveland. She earned her Master’s of Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University.×Picture of Jenniffer D. DeckardBernie MorenoBoard: 2014–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsRead BioBernie MorenoBoard: 2014–PresentAppointing Authority: Board of DirectorsBernie Moreno bought his first car dealership, Mercedes Benz of North Olmsted, in 2005. Over the past nine years, he has built The Collection Auto Group, which includes 21 dealerships throughout Northeast Ohio and Kentucky.Moreno launched his career in the automotive industry with the Saturn Corporation. He also served as Vice President for New England’s largest automotive dealer.Moreno received the Midwest Region Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst & Young in 2011. Also that year, he received the Time Magazine/Ally Financial Dealer of the Year Award for the Greater Northeast Ohio Region. Moreno was named the 2014 Distinguished Business Executive of the year by Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland.He currently serves as a board member for Cuyahoga Community College Foundation, Young Presidents Organization, Cleveland State University, and Ohio Business Roundtable.×Picture of Bernie Moreno
In its early years the work of the Cleveland Foundation was overseen by a five-member body of public representatives called the Survey Committee. The committee’s major responsibilities were to choose the subjects of the municipal studies that the foundation commissioned in its early years and to hire and supervise the work of a survey director. Research was suspended during World War I and the Survey Committee disbanded.

In 1917, when it became clear that the foundation would shortly realize its first discretionary income from gifts, Goff’s envisioned five-member “committee to distribute” was appointed. (See “Goff’s Vision” for an explanation of the process by which the foundation board is chosen.) The members of the first board, which was called the Foundation Committee, were steel manufacturer Thomas G. Fitzsimons (who served as chairperson), dry-goods wholesaler Malcolm L. McBride, machine tool manufacturer Ambrose Swasey, civic leader Belle Sherwin and banker James D. Williamson.

More than a year elapsed before sufficient monies had accumulated to allow the Foundation Committee to fulfill its core role as a grantmaking body. With about $25,000 in income on hand by January 1919, the committee began to meet regularly every month. By May, the first grants had been determined. The committee had decided to allocate most of the available income to staffing city and school playgrounds that otherwise would have limited their hours of summer operation because of inadequate public funding.

Goff had thoughtfully articulated the qualifications of the persons entrusted with making such weighty decisions on behalf of their fellow citizens. Members were to be “residents of Cleveland, men or women interested in welfare work, possessing a knowledge of the civic, educational, physical and moral needs of the community; preferably but one, and in no event to exceed two members of said committee, to belong to the same religious sect or denomination; those holding or seeking political office to be disqualified from serving.” From the beginning, gender equality was honored; indeed, the first person named to the first Foundation Committee was a woman, the extraordinary civic leader Belle Sherwin. Relevant experience—summarized in an early foundation document as “true fitness for serving the public welfare”—and diversity of backgrounds, beliefs and perspectives remain touchstones of the appointment process to this day.

As there were originally no term limits, tenures on the Foundation Committee (whose name was changed to the Distribution Committee in the 1940s) varied during the foundation’s first half-century of operation. In the mid-1960s, appointment for two consecutive five-year terms became the norm. In 1967, the foundation’s trustee banks agreed that the five-member Distribution Committee ultimately should be increased to 11 members, in part to make the committee more broadly representative of Greater Cleveland. That year saw the appointment to the Distribution Committee of its first Jewish members, Edgar A. Hahn and Frank E. Joseph, and its first African-American member, Kenneth W. Clement, M.D.

During a corporate reorganization in the early 2000s, the committee was again expanded, to 15 members, five of whom would thereafter be appointed by the board itself. The venerable title—Distribution Committee—no longer suited the changing function of the trustees. The foundation’s governing body would henceforth be referred to as a board of directors, in keeping with the increasingly strategic nature of the board’s intended role. Instead of focusing almost exclusively on approving grants, board members now concentrate on identifying and directing long-term, proactive initiatives in areas where there are opportunities for the Cleveland Foundation to have a substantial positive impact.

The trustees have also assumed other policy-making functions, serving on new or expanded committees that deal with asset development, investment management, human resources, information technology and marketing and communications. The new governance structure has greatly enhanced the ways in which the Cleveland Foundation can act as a resource to Greater Cleveland—a goal shared by all those who have served as trustees since the foundation’s inception.

The wise counsel and leadership of these individuals have been integral to the foundation’s growth and record of accomplishment. Here are their names, biographies and pictures. Their tenures and appointing authority are also provided. The portraits of individuals who have served in the capacity of chairperson are indicated with an orange bar.