People in the News (3/13/05): Appointments and Promotions
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has re-elected THOMAS H. KEAN to its board. Kean, a former governor of New Jersey, has sat two terms on the corporation's board and was its chair for five years. Kean, a co-chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States — the 9/11 Commission — has served on the boards of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund, Bell Atlantic, Amerada Hess, and CIT Group. He is, in addition, chairman of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and president of Drew University, a position from which he will retire this year.
The Bush Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has elected JAN K. MALCOLM to its board. Malcolm, CEO of rehabilitation service provider Courage Center, recently served as Minnesota's Commissioner of Health and as a senior program officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She previously held a number of executive positions in the healthcare industry, including at the health-policy think tank InterStudy. She serves on the boards of the Minnesota Women's Foundation, the Ann Bancroft Foundation, Planned Parenthood, and AcademyHealth, and has served on the board of the Minnesota Partnership of Action Against Tobacco since its inception.
The National Parks Foundation in Washington, D.C., has named NANCY BECHTLE as board vice chair, a position currently filled by David Rockefeller, Jr. By law, the Secretary of the Interior serves as the organization's board chair, and the vice chair is elected by the board. Bechtle, chairman and director of the Sugar Bowl Corporation and a director of the Charles Schwab Corporation, has served on the National Park Foundation board for three years, and was previously president and CEO of the San Francisco Symphony and a director and chief financial officer of J.R. Bechtle & Co., an international consulting firm.
D.C.-based Grantmakers in Health has named JIM KIMMEY, ANN MONROE, and ROBERT K. ROSS to its board. Kimmey, president and CEO of the Missouri Foundation for Health, played key administrative roles at Saint Louis University, where he is professor emeritus of health administration and policy, and recently chaired the Pew Task Force on Accreditation for the Health Professions. Monroe, president of the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York, has thirty years' experience in health and human service programs, including service as director of the quality initiative for the California HealthCare Foundation and as senior vice president of public benefit programs for Blue Cross of California. Ross, president and CEO of the California Endowment, previously directed Philadelphia's Department of Public Health and San Diego County's Department of Health Services and its Health and Human Services Agency. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
In other news, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation has named MARY LEROY as private foundation program officer and JULIA MACE as communications officer. LeRoy previously served as a clinical microbiologist at the Health Alliance, as a researcher at the Kern Medical Center in Bakersville, California, as communications coordinator for the Mariemont city school system, and as a reporter for two southwest Ohio newspapers, the Pulse-Journal and the Journal-News. Mace previously sat on the board of the Women Writing for a Change Foundation, and currently serves on the boards of the American Health Association, United Cerebral Palsy, Dress for Success.
