Officers
- Margaret A. Bracken*, Chair | Former Vice President & Project Manager – Brighton Development Corporation
- Marilyn Carlson Nelson*, Immediate Past Chair, Life Director | Co-CEO, Carlson Holdings
- William P. Miller*, Vice Chair | Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
- Anne. W. Miller*, Vice Chair | Trustee Emerita – The College of St. Catherine
- Yvonne Cheek, Ph.D.*, Secretary | President, Millennium Consulting Group
- Jay V. Ihlenfeld*, Treasurer | Retired Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific - 3M
- Michelle Miller Burns*, President and CEO, Minnesota Orchestra
Life Directors
- Kathy Cunningham* | Vice President – Charles & Kathryn Cunningham Family Foundation
- Luella G. Goldberg* | Former Acting President, Wellesley College
- Nancy Lindahl | Co-owner & Founder – Creative Strategies Plus, Inc.
- Ronald E. Lund | Retired Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary – AGA Medical Holdings, Inc.
- Warren E. Mack | Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
- Betty Myers | Myers Foundation, Inc.
- Gordon M. Sprenger | Retired CEO, Allina Health System, Inc.
Directors
- Karen Hsiao Ashe, M.D., Ph.D.* | Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Neurology
- Emily Backstrom | Vice President, Corporate Strategy, General Mills
- Douglas M. Baker, Jr.* | Chairman of the Board and CEO, Ecolab Inc.
- Maureen Bausch | Interim Chief Marketing Officer, Mayo Clinic
- Rochelle Blease* | Retired Vice President, Strategy and Communications, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services
- Sarah Brew | Partner, Faegre Baker Daniels, LLP
- Barbara Burwell* | Burwell Enterprises
- E. Tim Carl | Chief Executive Officer and Design Principal – HGA Architects and Engineers
- Evan Carruthers* | Managing Partner, Castlelake
- Y. Ralph Chu, M.D.* | Founder and Medical Director, Chu Vision Institute
- Mark D. Copman | President of 3M Brasil Ltda. —3M
- Paula DeCosse* | Former Co-chair – Orchestrate Excellence
- Jon Eisenberg | Retired Vice President and Chief Counsel, Medtronic
- John F. Farrell, Jr. | Chairman and CEO, Haskell's
- W. Anders Folk | First Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice
- Betsy Frost | Business Unit Director, General Mills
- Tim Geoffrion* | Norwest Equity Partners
- Joseph T. Green* | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, TCF Financial Corporation
- Laurie Hodder Greeno* | Retired Sales and Marketing Vice President, General Mills
- Karen L. Himle | Senior Vice President, Customer Experience and Corporate Affairs – Thrivent Financial
- Maurice Holloman | President, thehollomangroup, LLC
- Karen Lundmark Holmes | President—Young People's Symphony Concert Association (YPSCA)
- Philip O. Isaacson | Chairman, Nonin Medical
- Hubert Joly | Chairman and CEO, Best Buy Co., Inc.
- Kathy Junek* | Retired Public Defender
- Kate T. Kelly | Regional President — Minnesota, PNC Bank Financial Services Group
- Lloyd G. Kepple | Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP
- Michael Kim | Director and Professor, University of MN School of Music - Twin Cities
- Michael Klingensmith* | Publisher and CEO, Star Tribune Media
- Mary G. Lawrence, M.D. | Retired Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School
- Allen U. Lenzmeier* | Retired President & CEO, Best Buy
- Michael A. Lindsay | Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Patrick G. Mahoney | Managing Director, J.P. Morgan
- Kita McVay* | Director and Officer, Minnwest Corporation
- William P. Miller* | Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
- Ravi Norman | CEO, THOR Companies
- Minsok Pak | Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Target Corporation
- Anita M. Pampusch | Retired President, The Bush Foundation
- Lisa Paradis | Retired physician
- Mary Ella Pratte | President, Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra
- Michael M. Roos | Retired, KPMG, LLP
- Dimitrios P. Smyrnios | CEO, Schwan's Company
- Robert Spong | Retired Vice President & Financial Advisor, Piper Jaffray
- Mary Sumners* | Regional President, Northern Region—Wells Fargo Advisors
- Jim Watkins | Co-Founder & Managing Director, Sociable Cider Werks
- Tim Welsh | Vice Chairman of Consumer Banking Sales and Support, U.S. Bank
- John Wilgers* | Retired Minneapolis Office Managing Partner, Ernst & Young, LLP
- Aks Zaheer | Professor and Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Strategic Management at the Carlson School of Management – University of Minnesota
Directors Emeriti
- Margaret D. Ankeny
- Karen Baker
- Mari Carlson
- Andrew Czajkowski
- Jack W. Eugster
- Jane P. Gregerson
- Beverly Grossman
- Karen H. Hubbard
- Harvey B. Mackay
- Maxine Houghton Wallin
* denotes membership on Executive Committee