The University of Nebraska Medical Center Board of Counselors held its annual meeting recently naming new officers and welcoming nine new members.
The board – a group of more than 60 community and business leaders from across the state – advises UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., on health care issues of importance.
Freddie Gray, a management/strategy consultant in Omaha, was named chairperson. Dave Wimmer, retired chairman and CEO of Wimmer’s Meat Products of West Point, will serve as vice chair.
New board members:
Below are the hometowns, names and affiliations of the nine new board members.
Doniphan
- Ann Martin, president, IdeaBank Marketing
Lincoln
- Charlie Bills, fitness manager, Madonna Proactive
- Judy Wilcox, community volunteer
Omaha
- Sean M. Conway, Esq., attorney, Doran, Lustgarten & Troia, PC
- Weysan Dun, Dun Global Solutions Group LLC
- Viv Ewing, Ph.D., executive director, Alzheimer's Association
- Gail Graeve, president, Graeve Marketing Group
Mullen
- Margaret Cavanaugh-Boyer, M.D., partner, Sandhills Family Medicine
Wayne
- Jill Broderson, architect, Homestead Homes of America, Inc.
Other board members who continue to serve:
Below are the names, hometowns and affiliations (where provided) of board members who continue to serve.
Alliance
- Patricia Koch, co-owner, Perrin Manufacturing and Tridako Industries
Beatrice
- Dennis Byars, former state senator, Nebraska Legislature
Blair
- Mick Jensen, CEO, Great Plains Communications, Inc.
Chadron
- Patrick "Marty" Connealy, attorney-senior partner, Crites, Shaffer, Connealy, Watson, Patras & Cullers, P.C., L.L.O
Columbus
- K.C. Belitz, president, Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce
- Ralph Bradley, Esq., attorney, Bradley, Elsbernd, Andersen, Kneale & Mues Jankovitz PC, Attorneys at Law
Council Bluffs, Iowa
- Carolina Quezada, executive director, Latino Center of the Midlands
David City
- Michael Jones, president, Jones Insurance Agency
Fort Calhoun
- Curt Hofer, residential/commercial builder and developer, Jasper Stone Partners
Grand Island
- Will Armstrong, investment planner, Edward Jones
Hastings
- Chris Johnson, attorney, Conway Pauley Johnson, Attorneys at Law
Holdrege
- Terry Krohn, director, Two Rivers Health Department
Lincoln
- Mary Bills Strand, associate broker, Woods Brothers Realty Co.
- Marshall Borchert, president, Springbok Instrument, Inc.
- Leirion Gaylor Baird, city councilwoman, Lincoln City Council
- Jean Jeffrey, CPA, retired
- Liz Koop, president and CEO, Education Quest Foundation
- William "Bill" Lester, executive vice president/treasurer, Ameritas
- Angela Muhleisen, CEO & president, Union Bank and Trust Co.
- Lisa Smith, Smith Hayes Financial Services, Inc.
- Jana Tanner, home health liaison, Physician's Choice Home Health Care
- Ronald Wachter, vice president, retired, BryanLGH Medical Center
- Dwight Wininger, executive vice president, Pinpoint Broadband, Inc.
- Donna Woods, community volunteer
Norfolk
- Courtney Dentlinger, economic development director, City of Norfolk
- Bradley Krivohlavek, D.D.S., dentist
- Kent Warneke, editor, Norfolk Daily News
Omaha
- Willie Barney, president, Empowerment Network
- Bob Belgrade, partner, Belgrade Company
- Anne Branigan, senior vice president-innovative services, Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
- Howard Buffett, president and co-owner, Buffett Farms Nebraska LLC
- John Cavanaugh, vice president, Holland Children's Movement
- Tom Fischer, vice president, general counsel & secretary, Duncan Aviation, Inc.
- Nelson Gordman
- Kellie Harry, legislative consultant, federal government affairs, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company
- Joel Hutchins, M.D., retired
- Chris Kircher, VP corporate affairs & foundation president, ConAgra Foods, Inc.
- Diny Landen, president/owner, Vantage Communications, Inc.
- Othello Meadows III, executive director, Seventy-five North Revitalization Corp.
- Allyson Mendoza, J.D., attorney, Douglas County Public Defender's Office
- Michael Pallesen, partner, Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, L.L.P.
- Chris Rodgers, commissioner, Douglas County Board of Commissioners
- Suzanne Singer, career volunteer
- Ray Somberg, president & executive director, 1st Responders Foundation
- Brad von Gillern, president, Lueder Construction Company
- Thomas Warren, president & CEO, Urban League of Nebraska
- Roger Weitz, general director, Opera Omaha
Papillion
- Mario Rodriguez, assistant manager-agency recruiting, State Farm Insurance Co.
Red Cloud
- Amy Springer, M.D., physician, Webster County Hospital
Scottsbluff
- David Bartlett, owner, Bartlett and Company
- Sandy Massey, senior VP-director of human resources, Platte Valley Companies
Valentine
- Marian Davenport, nurse, Valentine Community Schools
York
- Margaret Brink
- Karen Harris, community volunteer
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