Moving Marywood Forward

Marywood's 13th President

Lisa A. Lori, J.D. serves as Marywood's 13th President, also holding the distinction of being the institution’s first lay president. President Lori’s distinguished qualifications include a dynamic leadership record as Marywood’s former Board Chair, along with an extensive legal background, reflecting a growing national trend of lawyer presidents, whose legal training and strategic expertise are highly sought in the challenging, complex climate of higher education.

A proud Marywood alumna, President Lori is committed to further expanding Marywood’s scope of influence in higher education, so that a broader range of students can come to know and love the University as much as she does. Working diligently to advance Marywood’s life-changing mission, she collaborates with campus and community partners to ensure that Marywood University is a leading academic institution for today’s students and for future generations, as well as an economic engine for the region.

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Immaculate Heart of Mary Logo IHM logoMarywood University is sponsored by the Congregation of Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), Scranton, Pennsylvania. Marywood, an educational community spirited by the mission of the IHM Congregation, lives out its own mission with a commitment to spiritual, ethical, and religious values, as well as a tradition of service. In this way, it enables people of all ages to develop fully as persons called by God to become free, authentic, and moral.

The mission of the University, reflective of the mission of its sponsor, continues to be a force for good in society. Over the years, the IHM Congregation has maintained a commitment to the governance, administration, and staffing needs of Marywood University.

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Executive Officers

Luxner, Sr. Catherine IHM

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Yankelitis, Wendy Ann

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Paterson, Atty. Mary Theresa G

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Kegolis, Dr. Jeffrey L

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McDonald, William A

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Zehel, Dr. Renee G

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Board Officers

Sister Kathleen Lunsmann, IHM
  • Chair of the Board
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Michael E. Bugno
  • Vice Chair of the Board
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Susan Cognetti
  • Secretary
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James G. Gavin
  • Treasurer
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Board of Trustees

Sister Mary Elaine Anderson, IHM
  • Trustee
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Matthew T. Balmer, Ph.D.
  • Trustee
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Col. (Ret.) Lorraine R. Breen
  • Trustee
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Sister Mary Ann Cody, IHM
  • Trustee
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Pia Ferrario
  • Vice Chair
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Mary Lawler Murphy Fox, Ph.D.
  • Trustee
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Maria C. Gogal
  • Trustee
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Flora Keating Karam
  • Trustee
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Frank Kelleher
  • Trustee
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Reverend John M. Lapera
  • Trustee
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John J. Lawless
  • Trustee
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Sister Andrea J. Lee, IHM
  • Trustee
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William R. Lynett
  • Trustee
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Alejandra Marroquin
  • Trustee
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Dan Santaniello
  • Trustee
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Paula Shields
  • Trustee
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Sandy Sposato, M.B.A.
  • Trustee
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Robert Tamburro
  • Trustee
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Ex Officio Board Members

Lisa A. Lori J.D.
  • President of the University
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Sister Kathryn Clauss, IHM, Ph.D.
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Trustee Emerita

Virginia P. Shields
  • Trustee Emerita
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