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Civic
Caucus Core Group
- Biographical Statements -
David Broden--
David Broden is a
consultant to the defense industry. He is chair of the armament
division of the National Defense Industrial Association. Before
founding Broden Resource Solutions in 2004, he had served for 14 years with Alliant
Techsystems and before that, 24 years with Honeywell, Inc. David has a
bachelor's degree in physics and math from St. Olaf College and a master's
in physics and math from the University of Minnesota. He has
done extensive work in strategic planning and business management.
In 2007
David organized the first Minnesota Heartland Defense and High Tech
Conference, linking the National Defense Industrial Association with the
Minnesota Defense Alliance. David is active in the Republican Party.
Janis Clay--Janis Clay is
secretary-treasurer of the Civic Caucus Board of Directors. She received
a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College and a law degree from the
University of Minnesota Law School, where she was a Managing Editor of the
Minnesota Law Review. Janis served as a law clerk to the Honorable
Harriet Lansing of the Minnesota Court of Appeals before entering private
practice. She has
served on a number of Boards of Directors, recently completing two terms
as a Board member and Secretary for the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota.
Janis currently sits on the Board of the Red River Valley & Western
Railroad, The Twin Cities & Western Railroad, the Minnesota Prairie Line
and the Western Railroad Equipment Company.
Marianne Curry--Marianne
Curry of St. Paul is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, a former
social worker with Hennepin County Mental Health Department and the State
Department of Corrections. She served as Assistant to the Chairman of the
Metropolitan Council and was a committee administrator in the MN House of
Representatives.
In the private sector, Marianne managed the environmental portfolio for
the MN Chamber of Commerce representing over 4,000 businesses. She was a
City Council member in Lakeville, served on the MN League of Cities
Finance Committee and chaired the Land Use Committee.
In the not for profit sector, she was Executive Director of the Community
Action Council of Dakota County, founder and chair of the Fairview-Ridges
Hospital Board of Trustees, served on the corporate Fairview Health
Systems Board for 14 years, a founder of the End of Life Policy
Development Committee as well as Director of the MN Hospital & Healthcare
Partnership board and Regional Delegate to the American Hospital
Association. More recently she founded the international Mary Graff
Healing Ministries and served as co-chair of the ecumenical Metro Faith
Community Nurse Network.
Bill Frenzel--
Bill Frenzel has been a Guest Scholar at the
Brookings Institution in Washington,
DC, since 1991 when he retired from the US House of Representatives after
serving his Minnesota constituency for 20 years.
Bill was the Ranking Minority Member on the
House Budget Committee and was the principal Republican economic spokesman
in the House. In 1993, he was appointed Special Advisor to President
Clinton for NAFTA. In 2001, President Bush appointed him to the Social
Security Commission. In 2002, President Bush appointed him to the Advisory
Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN), which he currently
chairs. In 2005, Pres. Bush appointed him the President’s Advisory Panel
on Tax Reform
Bill received his BA and MBA from Dartmouth
College and served as a Naval Officer during the Korean War. He was
President of the Minneapolis Terminal Warehouse Co., and other affiliated
corporations, a member of the Executive Board of the American
Warehousemen's Association, and served 8 years in the Minnesota
Legislature.
Paul Gilje, coordinator--
As coordinator for the Civic Caucus, Paul
arranges Civic Caucus meetings, prepares summaries of meetings, prepares
Civic Caucus reports, and maintains the Civic Caucus email list. He
served as executive director of the Presbyterian Homes Foundation from
2000 to 2005. From 1993 to 2000 he was a church fund-raiser. From 1988
to 1993 he was director of stewardship and administrator for Prince of
Peace Lutheran Church, Burnsville,
MN.
Paul served as
research director and later associate director of the Citizens League from
1964 to 1988. He was a staff writer for the Minneapolis Star from 1960
to 1964. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL.
James L. Hetland, Jr--
Jim is a native of Minneapolis, a graduate of the University of
Minnesota. He has a law degree from the University. He as been in
private practice of law, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota
Law School, an adjunct professor at the William Mitchell School of Law,
and on the faculty of the University’s Humphrey Institute and Business
School. For many years he was senior vice president, general counsel,
and counsel to the board of First Bank System, where he created the social
audit to reflect the bank's annual responses to 10 most critical urban
problems. He also was senior vice president for urban development for
First Bank System.
Jim was the first chair of the Metropolitan
Council, from 1967 to 1971. He served as president and board member of
the Citizens League. He served as chair of the Minnesota
Zoological Garden, the Minneapolis Charter Commission, the Council on
Crime and Justice, the Minneapolis Downtown Council, Interstudy,
Telecommuters, Inc., National Municipal League, and Urban Tennis. He
also served as chair of the Minnesota Supreme Court Rules of Civil
Procedure. He has served on the board of directors of several other
organizations.
Jan Hively--Since
November 2006, Jan Hively has been co-founder, program leader, and coach
of SHiFT, a volunteer network that offers people in midlife transition.
From 1994 to 2007 she was a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota
in several capacities, including the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,
the graduate faculty in education, and the Vital Aging Network.
Previously Hively had been executive director of the Golden Apple
Foundation for Teaching and the Minneapolis Youth Trust. From 1983 to
1989 she was deputy mayor of Minneapolis under Mayor Don Fraser.
Hivley has written articles for several
publications including, most recently, "The Role of Meaningful Work in
Later Life", Aging Well Magazine, March-April 2009. In 2008 she
was named Gerontologist of the Year by the Minnesota Gerontologist
Society.
She has a B.A. degree from Radcliffe
College and a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Verne C. Johnson, chair--
Verne has
served as chair of the Civic Caucus since its beginning. Verne is
president of the VCJ Foundation, whose primary focus is education for
those being left behind. From 1983 until 1997 he was President and CEO of
Altcare, a social responsibility venture established by General Mills and
the Wilder Foundation. Verne served General Mills as Vice President of
Corporate Planning for 14 years and as vice president of Public
Responsibility Planning and Venture Development for a year before his
early retirement in 1983.
Verne served from 1957 to 1967 as Executive Director of the Citizens
League, and later as its Chair and as a member of its Board of Directors.
He was for 30 years a member of the Fairview Board of Directors. He was a
member of the Minnesota House of Representative in his 20s and served for
three years as Administrative Assistant to Congressman Walter Judd of
Minnesota. Verne graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in
1950.
Dan
Loritz--
Dan Loritz served in Minnesota state government as
Director of Government Relations and Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor
Rudy Perpich, Director of Government Relations and Assistant Commissioner
for Instruction in the Department of Education, and Assistant Commissioner
for State Policy Coordination in the State Planning Agency.
He received his undergraduate degree from Hamline University and his
master's degree in teaching from the University of Wisconsin. In addition,
he was selected for three fellowships. He was an educational policy fellow
at George Washington University, a leadership fellow at the Hubert
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
and was chosen as recipient of a public school executive fellowship from
the Bush Foundation in Minnesota.
Marina Lyon-- Marina Lyon is
Vice President and Director, Pohlad Family Foundation, a position she has
held since 1998. From 1993 to 1998 she was with Piper Jaffray Companies
as public affairs director and vice president, PJC Foundation.
From 1990
to 1993 she was program officer with the McKnight Foundation. From 1984
to 1990 Lyon was a research associate with the Citizens League.
Marina has a bachelor's
degree and a law degree from the University of Minnesota. She is a board
member of the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency. Previous board positions
include Minnesota Council on Foundations, Women & Philanthropy, Casa de
Esperanza, and AccountAbility Minnesota.
Joe Mansky--
Joe Mansky has been
Ramsey County elections manager since 2002. Prior to coming to Ramsey
County, he was the manager of Governor Jesse Ventura’s redistricting
commission. He also served 15 years on the elections staff of the
Minnesota secretary of state’s office, the last 11 years as state election
director.
Tim McDonald--
Tim
McDonald is a fellow at the Center for Policy Studies, and an associate
with Education|Evolving.
Tim graduated in 2007 with honors from the College of Liberal Arts at
Hamline University. That year he was named a junior fellow at the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, where he won their national
Undergraduate Research Award. He is involved in policy design and
development in multiple capacities and facilitates a national blog that
follows the redesign of K-12 education systems.
John Mooty--
John Mooty has practiced law with Gray Plant
Mooty since 1944. He has been a partner since 1954 and served as a
managing officer of the firm for more than 20 years. He is best known for
rebuilding franchise corporations such as International Dairy Queen and
National Car Rental. He serves on the boards of several corporations.
In addition, he is the general partner in the development of Rio Verde,
Tonto Verde and Vista Verde, golfing retirement communities near
Scottsdale, AZ.
John has had substantial community involvement in political and
community organizations, including serving as past president of the
University of Minnesota Alumni Association, Minneapolis Rotary Club,
Citizens League, and St. John’s Lutheran Church. He was Chairman of the
Governor's Task Force on Education and a representative on the Uniform
Laws Commission.
He has been repeatedly named as a “Minnesota Super Lawyer” and is
currently noted as the oldest “Super Lawyer.” In 2003, he was named to the
Minnesota Business Hall of Fame. John earned his law degree (LL.B.) from
the University of Minnesota Law School in 1944 and his bachelor’s degree (BSL)
from the
University
of Minnesota in 1943.
Jim Olson--
Jim was an
original member of the Civic Caucus during the 1950s in Minneapolis while
he served on the faculty of the University
of Minnesota. He then moved to Illinois and served on the faculty of the University
of Illinois (1958-1965) and of Millikin University in Decatur (1965-1987).
He taught course in Economics and Statistics prior to his retirement as an Emeritus Professor of Economics and
Business Administration in 1987. Jim also is a retired Major in the Air
Force Reserve.
Jim has retained an interest in election statistics and redistricting
matters in Minnesota (and elsewhere) and is sometimes referred to as "the
election expert", a title that is warranted because he is "over 50 miles
from Minnesota" Jim receive his BBA, MA, and PhD degrees from the
University of Minnesota.
Wayne Popham-- A lawyer in private practice, Wayne
received his BSL degree in 1951 from the University of Minnesota and LLB
degree in 1953 from the University of Minnesota Law School. He was a a
founding partner of Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., an
international law firm. He has served as member and chair of commissions
to nominate persons for appointment as United States District Judge for Minnesota.
Wayne served
12 years in the Minnesota Senate. He was selected as one of two
outstanding Minnesota legislators by Eagleton Institute at Rutgers
University. He is a former chair of the Metropolitan Airports Commission,
a former member of the State Advisory Council on Metropolitan Governance
and the Commission on Minnesota's Future.
He is a former President and former member of the
Board of Directors of the Citizens League. He also has served as a board
member of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, the board of regents at
Augsburg College, and a trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Bob White
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From 1993
until 2006 Bob White was editorial page editor and then foreign affairs
columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper as an
editorial writer in 1967. He has reported from the Middle East, South
Asia, Latin America and Europe.
He
has received awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Minnesota Society
of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. He is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and from 1988 to
1998 was a trustee of the Refugee Policy Group in Washington, D.C.
A
1950 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served as a naval aviator
until resigning in 1957. He was then in business in Minneapolis
until he joined the newspaper. On sabbatical in 1977 he studied
economic development in the Middle East and South America.
Charles Clay (deceased)--
Charles Clay
was an original member of the Civic Caucus Core Group. An attorney, Clay
received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the
University of Minnesota and a law degree from the University of Minnesota
Law School. After serving as a law clerk for Justice Knutson of the
Minnesota Supreme Court, Clay began his legal career at the Soo Line
Railroad, becoming Executive Vice President—Assistant to the President
before leaving in 1984 to practice with the Minneapolis law firm of Head,
Seifert & Vander Weide.
In 1987, Clay, with two partners, founded a
short line railroad, the Red River Valley & Western, serving Minnesota
and North Dakota. This was followed by three more short lines and a
railroad equipment company. Clay continues to serve on the Boards of
Directors of the companies he co-founded.
Clay served many years on the Board of Directors
of the Citizens League, and was its President in 1965-66. Clay chaired
the League’s Metropolitan Affairs Committee, which lead to the
establishment of the Metropolitan Council, and its Metropolitan Sewage
Committee, which lead to the establishment of the Twin Cities Metropolitan
Sewer District. He also served on many other Citizens League committees.
Clay served on the Board of Directors of Deaconess Hospital, and on the
Edina School Board, where his three children attended school. He was
involved in many other local civic activities. Clay lived in Edina with
his wife, Audrey.
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