Chicago Humanities Festival: Board of Directorss

OFFICERS
	Willard G. Fraumann
	Willard Fraumann is chairman of the CHF Board. He is a partner with Kirkland & Ellis and a past president of the Kirkland & Ellis Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.
	Marilynn J. Thoma
	Marilynn Thoma is vice chair of the CHF board. She is chair of the CHF Education & Children’s Festival Committee and vice chair of the Endowment Committee and a member of the Investment, Board Governance & Nominating, and Audit & Finance Committees. She is proprietor of Oregon-based Van Duzer Vineyards, serves as president of the Women’s Board of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and board member of Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
	Jean S. Berghoff
	Jean Smith Berghoff is vice chair of the CHF board. She is chair of the CHF Special Events Committee and a member of the CHF Board Governance and Nominating, Program, and Marketing & Communication Committees. She is president of Berghoff Johnson Limited, a residential interior design firm, and also serves as a trustee of Ravinia Festival, a member of the Know Your Chicago committee, and chair of the Art Institute of Chicago Sustaining Fellows Program Committee.
	Christopher N. Knight
	Christopher N. Knight is vice chair and secretary of the CHF board. He is chair of the CHF Board Governance & Nominating committee and vice chair of the CHF Special Events Committee and a member of the Development, Endowment, Audience Development & Diversity and Marketing & Communication Committees. He is a partner in the firm of Foley & Lardner LLP and was formerly the managing partner of the firm’s Chicago office. He is a member of the board of directors of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the President of the board of trustees of the Writers’ Theatre, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of The Economic Club of Chicago.
	Avy H. Stein
	Avy Stein is vice chair (treasurer) of the CHF board. He is chair of the CHF Investment Committee and vice chair of the CHF Board Governance & Nominating Committees. He is the Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Willis Stein & Partners, LLC. He serves as a Board member of the University of Illinois Foundation and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He serves as Treasurer of the Ravinia Festival and as Chairman of its investment committee. He is a co-chairman of the Development Council for B.U.I.L.D. (Broader Urban Involvement in Leadership Development), an organization that provides career and educational development for inner city youth.
DIRECTORS
	John P. Amboian
	John Amboian is vice chair of the CHF Audit & Finance Committee and a member of the Investment Committee. He is president of Nuveen Investments, Inc. He serves on several not for profit boards, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, North Shore Country Day School, and Children’s Memorial Hospital.
	Allegra E. Biery
	Allegra E. Biery is a Senior Vice President of The Northern Trust Company, Chicago. She is a member of the CHF Audience Development & Diversity, Education & Children’s Festival and Marketing & Communication Committees. She is the Managing Executive of the Oak Street Financial Center of the Private Banking Group, Personal Financial Services. She is a Board Member of the Golden Apple Foundation, City Year Chicago, the Smith College Alumnae Club of Chicago and the Oak Street Council. She is also a member of the Chicago Finance Exchange. She is a Co-Chair of the 2007 ADL Women of Achievement Awards Dinner and was a member of the Steering Committee of Springboard-Midwest 2005, 2003 and 2001.
	Mary A. Boyer
	Mary A. Boyer is a member of the Board Governance & Nominating, Special Events, Audience Development & Diversity and Marketing & Communications Committees. She was a Development officer at the Chicago Botanic Garden for five years before initiating and managing the Chicago North Suburban affiliate of a national home cleaning franchise, which she owned for ten years. She is currently President of the Woman’s Board of the Chicago Botanic Garden and is Administrative Vice Chairman of the Women’s Board of the Ravinia Festival. Mary was one of the founders of the Chicago Children’s Museum.
	S. Cody Engle
	S. Cody Engle is president the Engle Family Foundation. He is a member of the CHF Marketing & Communication, CHF Audit & Finance, Audience Development & Diversity and Development Committees. Mr. Engle is chair of the Board of Visitors of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, and serves on the Executive Committee of SCORE-Chicago. He was on the 2004 Benefit Gala committee of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
	Harve A. Ferrill
	Harve Ferrill is a member of the CHF Development and Board Governance & Nominating Committees. He has co-chaired the CHF Charter Humanist Campaign since 2003. He is the retired chairman and CEO of Advance Ross Corporation and the founder of Efficient Health Systems, and Theta Systems. He serves on the boards of The Heartland Society, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Providence-St. Mel School, and Holy Angel School.
	Denise B. Gardner
	Denise Gardner is chair of the CHF Audience Development & Diversity Committee and a member of the CHF Special Events Committee. She is president and founder of Insights & Opportunities, a marketing firm, and serves on the women’s boards of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center and the Field Museum.
	Mary Louise Gorno
	Mary Louise Gorno is chair of the CHF Marketing & Communication Committee. She is a Partner and member of the Executive Committee of Lantern Partners. She previously served as the Vice President and Global Account Director of the Leo Burnett Company, Inc. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and The Goodman Theatre.
	Clark Hulse
	Clark Hulse is chair of the CHF Program Committee, vice chair of the Audience Development Committee and a member of the CHF Education & Children’s Festival Committee. He is dean of the Graduate College and executive vice provost at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of books and articles on the literature, history, and visual culture of the English Renaissance. Active in the area of public humanities, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Humanities Council.
	Morris A. Kaplan
	Morris Kaplan is a member of the CHF Education and Children’s Festival Committee. He is retired chairman, president, and CEO of Sealy, Inc. He is chair of the Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation and a trustee of Northwestern University. He serves on the boards of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Festival, and is a member of The Commercial Club of Chicago.
	Lisa Yun Lee
	Lisa Yun Lee is vice chair of the CHF Program Committee and a member of the CHF Endowment, Audience Development & Diversity, Education & Children’s Festival and Marketing & Communication Committees. She is co-founder of The Public Square. She serves on the boards of Bryn Mawr College, Ms. magazine, the Women's Studies Council at Duke University, and Young Chicago Authors.
	Marie A. Lona
	Marie A. Lona is a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP. She is a member of the CHF Investment, Special Events, Audience Development & Diversity and Marketing & Communication Committees. She is also on the Boards of Hubbard Street Dance Company, Redmoon Theater and Chicago Abused Women's Coalition.
	Karla Scherer
	Karla Scherer is chair of the CHF Audit & Finance and Endowment Committees and a member of the CHF Special Events and Program Committees. She is chairman of The Karla Scherer Foundation. She is a former director of the R.P. Scherer Corporation and the Economic Club of Detroit, and is a current director of the J. Stephen Scherer, Inc. and the Court Theatre. She is a member of the Chicago Network and the University of Chicago Visiting Committee to the Division of the Humanities.
	Harrison I. Steans
	Harrison Steans is a member of the CHF Audit & Finance Committee. He is chair of Financial Investments Corporation and founder and president of the Steans Family Foundation. He is chair of the Chicago “I Have a Dream” Foundation, a trustee of DePaul University, and a life trustee of Ravinia Festival and Highland Park Hospital. He is a member of The Commercial Club of Chicago.
	Christopher Q. Stephan
	Christopher Stephan is a managing partner of Huron Partners, Inc., a privately held multi-disciplinary real estate development and investment firm. He is vice chair of the CHF Development Committee and a member of the CHF Program and Marketing & Communication Committees. Mr. Stephan is also one of the founders and managing shareholders of Coastal Hotel Group, Inc., a private hotel management company. Mr. Stephan’s non-business involvements include the University of Notre Dame, Link Unlimited (mentoring of inner-city high school students) and a large private trust of which he is trustee.
	Rebecca Ford Terry
	Rebecca Ford Terry is vice chair of the Education & Children’s Festival and a member of the CHF Special Events, Program, Audience Development & Diversity and Board Governance & Nominating Committees She is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Draper and Kramer. She is a Trustee of the Field Museum and serves on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Goodman Theater, and the Renaissance Society. She was Chairman of the 2006 Harold Washington Literary Awards and has been a theater critic for the Chicago Reader and contributed book reviews to the Chicago Tribune, The American Lawyer and the Milken Institute Review.
	Richard J. Franke
	Richard Franke is founding chairman and director emeritus of the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF). He was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Clinton in 1997 and received the Arts Legend Award from the Illinois Arts Alliance in April 2002. He is chair and CEO emeritus of Nuveen Investments, Inc., a life trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and a director of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a life trustee of the University of Chicago, a past vice chair of the Yale Corporation, and has received honorary degrees from DePaul, Yale and Lawrence Universities.
	Richard Gray
	Richard Gray is vice chairman director emeritus of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is a member of the CHF Marketing & Communication and Board Governance and Nominating Committee Committees. He is a partner of The Richard Gray Gallery and former president of the Art Dealers Association of America. He is vice chair of the board of WTTW Channel 11 and WFMT Radio, a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Art Institute of Chicago, and the chair of the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art.
	Paul C. Gignilliat
	Paul Gignilliat is chair of the CHF Development Committee and vice chair of the CHF Investment Committee. He is a member the CHF Special Events Committee. He is senior vice president of investments at UBS, a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Culver Education Foundation, and a director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
	Ruth Ann Quinn
	Ruth Ann Quinn is a member of several CHF committees including the Visitors and CHF Special Events Committees. She is a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and serves on the Women’s Boards of Ravinia and the Field Museum.
	Richard J. Stern
	Richard Stern is a member of the CHF Program Committee. He is managing director of Stern Joint Venture and former president of Associated Mills/Pollenex. He is a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
	Donald E. Sveen
	Donald Sveen is a member of the CHF Investment and Audit & Finance Committees. He is president and COO emeritus of Nuveen Investments, Inc., a director of the Central DuPage Health Foundation, a member of the Governance Committee of the Central DuPage Health Board, and a member of the Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation Board of Directors.
	John A. Wing
	John Wing is a professor of law and finance at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Chair of its Center for the Study of Law and Financial Markets. He is the former chairman of the Illinois Humanities Council and continues as a member of its board. He is chairman of the Risk Management Committee of the Commercial Club and director of AmerUs Life Holdings and LDF, Inc.