Board of Trustees

2023-2024 Academic Year (Updated July 2023)

Dr. Deborah Smith-Mileski '75, Chair

R. Gregory Collins '82, Vice Chair

Mark Alles
Monsignor John J. Bendik
Daniel J. Myers, Ph.D. - President, Misericordia University
Christopher L. Borton
Jonathan Brassington '95 - DIT North America Capgemini
Father Michael Bryant - Nativity of our Lord Parish
Alfred Casale, M.D. - Geisinger Health System
Cor Catena - Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono
Ruth A. Connolly, Ed.D. - Education Consultant, Cognia
Ivette Diaz, RSM, MSW – Interculturality Resource Coordinator, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy
Mary Erwine '90 and '92 - Erwine Home Health and Hospice, Inc.
Patricia Finan-Castellano '73
Mary Ellen Fuhrman, RSM '74 - Mercy Center
Carol Gallagher, RSM '66 - Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
The Honorable Tina Polachek Gartley '88- Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas
Roger Howell - Howell Benefit Services, Inc.
Phillip Johnson - M&T Bank
Bill Jones '85 - United Way of Wyoming Valley
Jeffery Kile, M.D. - PAK Pediatrics
Barbara Maculloch '94 - Community Bank
Marjorie Henry Marquart '85
Carla McCabe - WVIA Public Broadcasting
Catherine McGroarty, RSM '74
Maureen Metz - Metz Culinary Management
Deirdre Mullan, RSM, Ph.D. - UNICEF, Partnering Religious Congregations
Mark Oberstaedt, Esq. '89 - Archer Law
Brennan O'Donnell, Ph.D. - President Emeritus, Manhattan College
David Payne, Jr. '85 - PNC Capital Markets
Carol Rittner, RSM, Ph.D. '67 – The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Paul T. Rushton, Esq. - Rosenn, Jenkins, Greenwald, LLP
Sal Savatteri, Jr., Esq. '95 - Savatteri Law
Paul "Chip" Siegel - Assured Partners Insurance

Trustees Emeriti
Mary Ann Dillon, RSM, Ph.D., '68 – Trinity Health
Sandy Insalaco, Sr. – US Hydrations, Insalaco Development Group
Sherry A. Manetta '72
Mary Beth Sullivan, '71 - Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Murray Ufberg, Esq. – Rosenn, Jenkins, Greenwald, LLP

Alumni Board President
Christelle Hoffman ‘13