A list of Citizens Advisory Commission members

Posted: April 16, 2002

Contact: Doug Anderson, doug.anderson@MinnState.edu, 651-201-1426

Vance Opperman, co-chair, Minneapolis, CEO of Key Investment, Inc.

Glen Taylor, co-chair, North Mankato, CEO of Taylor Corporation

Joanne E. Benson, White Bear Lake, CEO of the Minnesota Business Academy in St. Paul and former lieutenant governor

Julie Bleyhl, Madison, legislative director of AFSCME Council 6, past member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and the former Minnesota State Universities Board

Andrew Boss, St. Paul, member of the MnSCU Board of Trustees, retired chief executive officer and chair of St. Anthony Park Bank

Wilson Bradshaw, St. Paul, president of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and Minneapolis, a MnSCU institution

Dick Day, Owatonna, Senate Minority Leader

Cheryl Dickson, St. Paul, former president of the Minnesota Humanities Commission

Nancy Domaille, Rochester, CEO of Domaille Engineering of Rochester, immediate past chair of Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and member of Greater Rochester Area University Center Board of Directors

John Frobenius, St. Cloud, president of St. Cloud Hospital and co-president of Centracare Health System

Jack M. Geller, Mankato, president of the Center for Rural Policy and Development at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Carol R. Johnson, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Public Schools superintendent

Reatha Clark King, Minneapolis, president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation, vice president of General Mills Inc., former president of Metropolitan State University

Jan Krasny, Moorhead, student at Minnesota State University Moorhead and vice chair, Minnesota State University Student Association

Sen. Roger Moe, Erskine, Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate

Greg Mulcahy, St. Paul, co-treasurer of Minnesota State College Faculty

Kathleen Nelson, Duluth, president of Lake Superior College of Duluth, a MnSCU institution

Collins W. Oakgrove, Red Lake, former teacher in Minneapolis Public Schools and at the University of Minnesota, and director of education for the Red Lake Tribal Council

David Olson, Minnetonka, president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce

Paul M. Olson, Grand Rapids, president and CEO of the Blandin Foundation and chair of the Minnesota Center for Rural Policy and Development

James Pehler, St. Cloud, president of the Inter Faculty Organization and a former state representative and senator

Thomas Pugh, South St. Paul, House Minority Leader

Hazel Reinhardt, Minneapolis, consultant and former Minnesota state demographer

Ed Schones, St. Paul, co-president of Minnesota State College Faculty, former president of United Technical College Educators

Patricia Spence, Rice, immediate past chair of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and former Little Falls mayor, teacher and business owner

Rep. Steve Sviggum, Kenyon, Speaker, Minnesota House of Representatives

Elsa Vega-Perez, St. Paul, program officer for the Otto Bremer Foundation

Michael Vekich, St. Louis Park, member and immediate past chair of the MnSCU Board of Trustees, business and financial consultant

Elaine V. Voss, Blaine, a member of the Governor's Citizen Advisory Commission on Redistricting and the SBI Investment Advisory Council, and former deputy secretary of state

Ray Waldron, South St. Paul, president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO

Tom Westerhaus, Cold Spring, superintendent of the ROCORI School District and adjunct professor at St. Cloud State University

Shaun Williams, Cloquet, student at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, a MnSCU institution, and vice president, Minnesota State College Student Association

Lee Pao Xiong, St. Paul, president and CEO of the Urban Coalition, Metropolitan Council representative, former director of government and community relations at Concordia University

Mary Choate, Bloomington, chair of the MnSCU Board of Trustees, is an ex officio member of the commission.