Connie Ballmer
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2020
Connie Ballmer is the Co-Founder of Ballmer Group, which supports efforts to improve economic mobility for children and families in the US who are disproportionately likely to remain in poverty. A native of Oregon, Connie earned a B.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon. Ballmer served on the UO’s inaugural board of trustees.
Peter Bragdon
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2021
Peter Bragdon is Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of Columbia Sportswear Company, which sells outdoor apparel, footwear and equipment in more than 90 countries. He also served as a Port of Portland Commissioner from 2007 to 2016 and chief of staff to Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski from 2003 to 2004. Starting his career in journalism, Bragdon Graduated with a JD from Stanford Law School. Bragdon served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Rodolfo Chapa, Jr
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 2/19/2018
Rodolfo (Rudy) Chapa earned a B.A. degree in business administration from the University of Oregon in 1981. During his time as a student, Chapa was celebrated as a six-time All American in cross country and track and a member of Oregon's 1977 national champion cross country team. Originally from Indiana, he earned his law degree in 1985 from the Indiana University School of Law. After law school, Chapa joined the International Management Group and served as vice president of the athletics and fitness division. He joined NIKE, Inc., in 1992 and served as vice president of Nike.com. He left in 2001 to start his own investment firm, Quixote Investment. Three of Chapa’s children have graduated from the UO, and he served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Andrew Colas
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2021
Andrew Colas, president of Portland’s Colas Construction, received his bachelor’s degree in 2004 from the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. He began work in 2000 as a field assistant for the firm founded by his father, then served as a project manager following his UO graduation. Colas leads the business development and operational teams at Colas Construction and has used his experience in the field to redevelop the company's project delivery and project supervision systems. He is a past member of the UO Alumni Association Board, the City of Portland Housing Bureau, the Oregon Construction Contracts Board, and served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees..
Ann Curry
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/20/2019
After living all over the globe as the daughter of a US military serviceman, Ann Curry moved to Ashland, Oregon, where she graduated from Ashland High School. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1978. Following her UO graduation, Curry began her broadcasting career as an intern and the first female reporter at Medford’s KTVL-TV. She left in 1981 to become a reporter for KGW in Portland and then KCBS in Los Angeles. Curry was a national and international correspondent/anchor and anchor at large for the network’s “Today” show. Curry served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Sam Dotters-Katz
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2014
Dotters-Katz graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.A. in political science in 2009 and a second B.A. in history in 2011. Dotters-Katz received their JD from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2014. While at the UO, Dotters-Katz served as president of ASUO as an undergraduate student in 2008 and as a law student 2011. Dotters-Katz served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Allyn Ford
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2021
Allyn Ford was appointed to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education in 2009, and subsequently served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees. Ford held the position of president and CEO of Roseburg Forest Products from 1997 to 2016 after taking over leadership of the company from his father and company founder, Kenneth Ford, and continues to serve as company chairman. Ford was a member of the Oregon State Board of Forestry from 1975 to 1982 and chaired the Advisory Board for Forestry Intensified Research (FIR). He also served as board chair for Umpqua Bank from 1998 to 2012. Ford holds a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University.
Susan Gary
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2017
Susan Gary is Professor Emerita and formerly Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. Prior to entering academia, Gary practiced law with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago and DeBandt, van Hecke & Lagae in Brussels. Gary has held leadership positions in three sections (trusts and estates, elder law, and nonprofits) of the Association of American Law Schools, and she has served as an advisory board member for the NYU National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. Gary holds a JD from Columbia University Law School. Gary served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Joseph H. Gonyea
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2021
Joseph H. (Joe) Gonyea is a partner and co-chairman of Springfield-based Timber Products Company and serves as partner and director of SierraPine, Ltd., and a managing partner of Michigan-California Timber Company He is former director of the Oregon Forest Industries Council, past president of the Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation and past chair of the California Forestry Association. Gonyea received his bachelor's degree in commerce from Santa Clara University in 1984, and previously served on the university's Board of Regents. Gonyea served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Ross Kari
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2023
Ross Kari is a native Oregonian who received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his master's degree in business administration from the University of Oregon. Kari spent a large portion of his career at Wells Fargo, rising from senior financial analyst to executive vice president and chief financial officer, and subsequently served in several other roles in banking, financial management and planning, and investor relations, including: myCFO, Inc., the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Safeco Corporation in Seattle, as CFO of Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, and EVP and CFO at Freddie Mac. Kari is a member of the boards of directors for Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc., Goldman Sachs Private Middle Market Credit LLC and Eugene-based Summit Bank. Kari is also a director of Oregon21 LLC. He is a former member of the UO Lundquist College of Business Board of Advisors.
Chuck Lillis
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2022
Chuck Lillis, a native of Overland Park, Kansas earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington and his doctorate in 1972 from the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. Lillis and his wife, Gwendolyn, made the lead gift for the construction of the new business school building in 2001. Lillis began his career as a business professor at Washington State University, shifted to General Electric as director of corporate marketing and research, and briefly served as the dean of the school of business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He would later become CEO and chairman of MediaOne in 1995 and the company was sold to AT&T in 2000 for $62.5 billion. Lillis was co-founder and principal of LoneTree Capital and co-founder and managing partner of Castle Pines Capital which was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2011. He has served on a variety of boards, including the University of Washington foundation, the University of Colorado at Boulder foundation, and several public and private boards. Lillis and his wife Gwen have three children and eight grandchildren. Lillis served as Chair of the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Laura Lee McIntyre
Term of Service: 9/25/2017 – 6/30/2021
Laura Lee McIntyre Castle-McIntosh Knight Professor and Dean of the College of Education. Her research focuses on early identification and intervention of neurodevelopmental disorders in children and promotion of health and well-being in children and families. McIntyre and her students are committed to implementing and evaluating programs and services for vulnerable children who may be at risk for poor social, academic, and developmental outcomes. McIntyre has been a faculty member at the University of Oregon since 2009.
Jimmy Murray
Term of Service: 07/01/2017 – 6/30/2022
Jimmy Murray is the technology specialist and student supervisor for the UO’s Mathematics Library and the Allan Price Science Commons and Research Library. Murray’s UO service and campus involvement include membership on a variety of teams, task forces, committees, and ad hoc groups that support student learning, education, and research. In addition, Murray was elected twice to serve as a classified staff representative on the UO Senate where he worked to bring forward the thoughts and concerns of students, staff, and faculty. Murray, a member of SEIU, has twice served as a UO delegate to the General Council, the primary legislative body of SEIU 503 which meets biennially.
Will Paustian
Term of Service: 11//20/2015 – 6/30/2019
Will Paustian graduated from the University of Oregon’s Robert D. Clark Honors College and the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in finance and entrepreneurship and a minor in economics. While at the UO, Will was a Stamps Scholar, studied abroad in the United Kingdon at the University of Oxford, and served as the UO governing Board’s student trustee.
Ginevra Ralph
Term of Service: 11//20/2013 – 6/30/2023
Ginevra Ralph received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oregon Honors College in 1983, followed by a master's degree in special education in 1985. Ralph taught students with severe cognitive and physical disabilities, and served on the UO College of Education faculty from 1992 to 2001 as instructor/research assistant and practicum coordinator. She served as trustee for the UO Foundation from 2006 to 2013 and member and past board president of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Ralph co-founded Eugene's John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts in 1991 with her husband where she currently serves as director of education and development. Ralph received the Governor Arts Award in 2005 and was named as Eugene's First Citizen in 2015.
Helena Schlegel
Term of Service: 12/10/2014 – 11/18/2015
Helena Schlegel graduated from the University of Oregon in 2016 with a B.A. in economics and Spanish and a minor in mathematics, and served as the UO governing Board’s student trustee. While at UO, Helena was a Wayne Morse Scholar, served on the University of Oregon Organization Against Sexual Assault and also served as President of ASUO from 2015-2016.
Mary Wilcox
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2021
Mary Wilcox began her career as an attorney and partner with Portland firm Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt and has since served in various community leadership positions including International Women’s Forum Oregon, the Oregon Community Foundation, the Oregon Children’s Foundation – which does business as SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), the OHSU Foundation, among others. A native Oregonian, Wilcox was born and raised in Ashland and earned her B.A. from the University of Oregon in 1976, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and her J.D. in 1980 from the University of Oregon School of Law and New York University School of Law. Wilcox served on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Kurt Willcox
Term of Service: 11/20/2013 – 6/30/2017
Kurt Willcox received his master’s degree in industrial and labor relations in 1981 from what was then the UO’s College of Business Administration. Willcox spent his career prior to UO working in the labor movement, serving as a program director of the Labor Center at the University of Iowa, field representative and organizer for Oregon Public Employees Union (SEIU 503), council representative for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and as labor relations representative for the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA). Willcox worked at the University as adjunct instructor at the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC), as a research analyst with the intoCareers program in the College of Education, and finally as the University Senate’s program assistant. Willcox retired in 2018 after more than 20 years of service and served as the non-faculty staff member on the University of Oregon’s inaugural board of trustees.
Katharine Wishnia
Term of Service: 6/1/2019 – 6/30/2021
Katharine Wishnia studied political science and psychology at the University of Oregon and served as the board’s student trustee. In 2018, Wishnia received the Clark Honors College Award for their work enforcing and improving the university’s (IDEAL) framework for inclusion, diversity, evaluation, achievement, and leadership. Wishnia was also recognized by the Daily Emerald and Student Alumni Association as one of the 25 Ducks award winners for their dedication to helping the student body.