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David W. Miles, President
1402 Tulip Tree Lane
West Des Moines, IA 50266-6665
Phone 515-281-3934
Fax 815-331-1216
miles.david.w@gmail.com
Appointed
in 2007
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David Miles is Managing
Director of The Miles Group, a family investment business.
Mr. Miles served as
Chief Executive Officer, Countryside Renewable Energy, Inc., a
company organized for the purpose of consolidating independent
(largely producer-owned) ethanol plants into a larger, more
sustainable organization.
From January 2005 to September 2006 Mr.
Miles was Executive Vice President of the Principal Mutual Funds, with
responsibilities for asset management, marketing, business development
and corporate governance for the nation’s 60th largest mutual
fund family ($28.1 billion as of May 31, 2006).
Prior to joining Principal, Mr. Miles
spent five years with AMCORE Financial, Inc., a Northern Illinois-based
financial services holding company with banking assets of $4.9 billion
and investments assets of $4.4 billion. He served as Executive Vice
President of AMCORE Financial, Inc., President & CEO of AMCORE
Investment Group, EVP & COO of AMCORE Bank, and President & Director of
the Vintage Mutual Funds.
Mr. Miles joined AMCORE through the
acquisition of Investors Management Group (“IMG”), a Des Moines-based
investment advisory firm. Until IMG was acquired by AMCORE in 1998, it
was Iowa’s largest independent investment adviser and Mr. Miles was its
president & principal owner. During his tenure, IMG’s assets under
management grew from $765 million to $1.84 billion.
Mr. Miles received his Juris Doctorate
from Harvard Law School and his Masters of Public Policy from the John
F. Kennedy School of Government in 1983, and received his Bachelor of
Arts Degree in Public Administration from Drake University in 1979.
In 2007 Mr. Miles concluded eleven
years on the Drake University Board of Trustees, where he served for
three years as chair. He is past-chair of the Arthritis Foundation Iowa
Chapter, Leadership Iowa and the Drake National Alumni Association, as
well as past-vice chair of Rockford Health Systems. In 1996, he
received the Young Alumni Achievement Award from the Drake National
Alumni Association.
Mr. Miles and his wife, Loree, live in
West Des Moines. His special interests are current affairs, investing,
wine, art, running and his two granddaughters.
On December 5, 2007, Regent Miles was elected President of the
Board of Regents to fill an unexpired term, and on March 14,
2008, he was
re-elected to serve
until April 30, 2010. His term on the Board expires April 30, 2013.
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Jack B. Evans, President Pro Tem
The Hall Perrine Foundation
115 3rd St. SE, Suite 803
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401-1222
Phone
319-866-6532
Fax 319-362-7220
Appointed in 2007
Term 2007-2013
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Jack Evans is
President of The Hall-Perrine Foundation, a private
philanthropic corporation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Prior to
joining the Foundation in January of 1996, he was President and
Chief Operating Officer of SCI Financial Group starting with the
regional financial services company in 1972.
Mr. Evans earned his BA from Coe College in 1970 and his MBA from the
University of Iowa in 1972. Currently he sits on the Board of Directors
of Gazette Communications, Nuveen Institutional Advisory Corporation,
Priority One, and United Fire and Casualty.
He
is past chairman and life trustee of Coe College, the Iowa College
Foundation, the Metropolitan Library Foundation, and the United Way of
East Central Iowa. Other past board activities includes Alliant Energy,
Brucemore Inc., Cedar Rapids Airport Commission, Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago, Four Oaks, and Westminster Presbyterian Church. Mr. Evans is a
former member of the Chicago Stock Exchange and a current member of the
Advisory Council of the Department of Finance in the Tippie College of
Business at the University of Iowa.
Jack and his wife Nancy Evans live in Cedar Rapids and have three grown
sons.
Regent Evans was elected President Pro Tem February 2008
to fill an unexpired term
and was re-elected March 14, 2008, to serve until April 30, 2010.
His term on the Board expires April 30, 2013.
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Bonnie J. Campbell
Campbell Law Firm
3131 Fleur Drive, #702
Des Moines, IA 50321
Phone 515-306-3674
Fax 515-288-9965
Appointed in 2007
Term 2007-2011
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Bonnie J.
Campbell was elected Attorney General of Iowa in 1990 and served
through 1994. She is the only woman to have held that office in
the state. She focused on protecting Iowa’s consumers,
strengthening Iowa’s domestic violence laws, and increasing
funding for victim compensation programs and shelters. She also
wrote what became a model statute on anti-stalking for states
around the country.
As Iowa Attorney
General, Campbell chaired the Consumer Protection Committee of
NAAG (National Association of Attorneys General), as well as the
Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration
Working Groups of NAAG.
In her legal
practice, Campbell represents clients before various regulatory
bodies, including the state attorneys general. Her practice
generally focuses on providing both legal and crisis management
counseling to businesses confronted with highly visible legal
matters as they attempt to deal with the public, the media, and
an array of government agencies.
Campbell served
with distinction for four years as Iowa Attorney General and
then joined the Clinton Administration as one of its key
officials on crime and gender-equity issues. Selected by
Clinton in 1995 to head the Justice Department’s newly created
Violence Against Women Office, Campbell emerged as a national
leader for her work to bring victim-rights reform to the
country’s criminal justice system. Campbell’s effectiveness led
Time magazine in 1997 to name her one of the 25 most
influential people in America. Praising her for bringing
“rock-solid credibility” to her job, Time called Campbell
the “force behind a grass-roots shift in the way Americans view
the victims--and perhaps more important, the perpetrators--of
crimes against women.” As director of the Justice Department’s
Violence Against Women Office, Campbell oversaw a $1.6 billion
program to provide resources to communities for training judges,
prosecutors, and police and to provide services and shelter to
victims.
In 1996,
Campbell was chosen to serve on the President’s Interagency
Council on Women, chaired by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She also headed the Justice Department’s Working Group on
Trafficking and was instrumental in the creation of a U.S.
treaty with Italy on ending trafficking in women and girls. She
subsequently was appointed by Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright to represent the United States in international
negotiations on the creation of an International Criminal
Court. She was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United
Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in
1995 and h as been a leading spokesperson on
international human rights issues ever since.
Regent Campbell's term on the Board expires
April 30, 2011.
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Jenny
L. Connolly
1409 West 31st Street
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
Phone 319-415-7488
Appointed in 2004
Term 2004-2009
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Jenny (Rokes) Connolly graduated with highest honors and a major in
history education from the University of Northern Iowa in
December 2005. At UNI, she worked as a Resident Assistant,
volunteered as a middle school tutor, and has been active in
student government. She has made the Dean's List seven times.
Connolly is a graduate student at the University of
Northern Iowa in post-secondary education: student
affairs. She also is employed at Fareway in Cedar Falls.
Mrs. Connolly is a 2001 graduate of Dike-New Hartford High
School, where she was one of the class valedictorians.
Regent Connolly's term on the Board expires
April 30, 2009.
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Robert N. Downer
2029 Rochester Court
Iowa City, IA 52245
Phone 319-338-2123 Ext. 126
Fax 319-338-7250
Appointed in 2003
Term 2003-2009
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Robert N. Downer, Iowa City,
is a member of the Iowa City law firm of Meardon, Sueppel
& Downer P.L.C., with which he has been associated
since receiving a Juris Doctor degree from the University
of Iowa College of Law and being admitted to the Iowa Bar,
both in 1963. Mr. Downer also holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Political Science from the University of Iowa,
awarded in 1961, and served as Student Body President in
1960-61.
Mr. Downer’s practice of law has concentrated in the
fields of corporate law and trusts and estates. He has
been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in these
fields since 1995. He has also been an active member of
the Johnson County, Iowa State and American Bar
Associations, having served as President of both the
Johnson County and Iowa State Bar Associations. He is also
a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate
Counsel, for which he serves as Iowa State Chair, and is a
Life Fellow of both the Iowa State and American Bar
Foundations. He has been the recipient of the Excellence
in Service Award of Legal Services Corporation of Iowa and
the Award of Merit of the Iowa State Bar Association.
Additionally, Mr. Downer has been involved in a wide
variety of civic organizations, including the Iowa City
Area Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club of Iowa City,
both of which he has served as President. He has also been
Chair of the Iowa City Area Development Group, President
of the Board of Trustees of the Iowa City Public Library,
and served as a Director and Secretary of both Christian
Retirement Services, Inc. and the Community Foundation of
Johnson County. Currently he is a Director of the Iowa Law
School Foundation and a Trustee of the Herbert Hoover
Presidential Library Association and the Lawyers Committee
for Civil Rights.
Regent Downer's term on the Board expires April 30, 2009.
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Michael G. Gartner
100 Market Street, #515
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone 515-243-6111
Fax 515-288-6642
Appointed in 2005
Term 2005-2011
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Michael G. Gartner of Des Moines is chairman and principal owner
of the Iowa Cubs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. He
is a native Iowan who has been a lifelong journalist. Over the
years, he has been Page One Editor of The Wall Street Journal,
editor and president of The Des Moines Register, editor of the
Courier-Journal of Louisville, general news executive of Gannett
Co. and USA TODAY, and president of NBC News. He is 69 years
old.
In 1997, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials he wrote for
the Ames Tribune, of which he was editor and co-owner.
For the past eight years, Gartner has been almost a full-time
volunteer public servant for the state. From 2000 to 2005, he
was chairman of Vision Iowa, the state board charged with
helping to fund the building of recreation, education, cultural
and entertainment facilities in the state. Vision Iowa and the
state’s Community Attraction and Tourism (CAT) program, which
was created with the same legislation and governed by the same
board, funded 170 projects throughout the state and leveraged
the state’s $230 million into more than $2.5 billion in
construction of community projects under Gartner’s leadership.
Michael Gartner is a native of Des Moines. He is a 1960
graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and has a
law degree from New York University. He is a member of the bar
in New York and Iowa. In 1994, he was a fellow at the Institute
of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University. He holds honorary degrees from Simpson
College, Drake University, Grand View College, Iowa Wesleyan
University and James Madison University in Virginia.
Gartner is the author of “Outrage, Passion, and Uncommon Sense,”
a history of America as seen through newspaper editorials over
more than 150 years. The book was published by the National
Geographic and the Newseum, a Washington, D.C., museum of which
he is a director.
Gartner has been married for nearly 40 years to the former
Barbara McCoy, a central Iowa civic leader. Their son, Mike;
daughter, Melissa, and grandson, Zachary, also live in Des
Moines. The Gartners’ other son, Christopher, died in 1994 at
age 17 of juvenile diabetes.
Gartner was appointed to the Board of Regents in 2005 by Gov.
Thomas J. Vilsack. That spring, board members unanimously
elected him president of the Board of Regents to fill an
unexpired term, and in 2006 he was re-elected unanimously. He
chose not to seek another two-year term and stepped down as
president on Jan. 1, 2008. His term on the board expires April
30, 2011.
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Ruth
R. Harkin
528 North 43rd Street
Cumming, IA 50061
Phone 515-981-4386
Fax 703-768-9058
Appointed in 2005
Term 2005-2009
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Ruth
R. Harkin was appointed in 1997 as United Technologies
Corporation’s senior vice president, international affairs and
government relations, and chair of United Technologies
International, UTC’s international representation arm. She was
based in the corporation’s Washington, DC, office.
Prior
to that time, Mrs. Harkin served as president and chief
executive officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
(OPIC), an independent, U.S. government-owned corporation. She
was appointed to that position by President Bill Clinton and
confirmed by the United States Senate in 1993.
At
OPIC, Mrs. Harkin refocused the agency’s energy to better
serve U.S. foreign policy and economic goals and the American
business community. During her four-year tenure, OPIC greatly
expanded its business with essentially the same size workforce
of fewer than 200 employees. Between fiscal year 1993 and fiscal
year 1996, OPIC committed more than $6 billion in financing and
sold $34 billion worth of political risk insurance, supporting a
total of 450 projects and earning a record four-year profit of
$725 million.
A
graduate of Catholic University Law School, Mrs. Harkin was one
of the first women in the United States to be elected as a
prosecutor when, in 1972, she was elected to the office of
county attorney of Story County, Iowa. She was the county’s
lead criminal prosecutor and also served as its corporate
attorney. From 1979 to 1981, she served as deputy general
counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. From 1983 to
1993, Mrs. Harkin was of Counsel at the law firm of Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, where her clients included U.S.
businesses engaged in international trade and investment.
Mrs.
Harkin sits on the boards of directors of ConocoPhillips and the
U.S.-Russia Business Council as well as the board of visitors of
the College of Business Administration, University of Iowa. She
is co-chair of the Russian Federation’s Foreign Investment
Advisory Council Working Group on State Regulation of the
Russian Economy. She is a member of the Iowa and Washington, DC,
bar associations.
Regent Harkin's term on the Board expires April 30, 2009.
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Craig
A. Lang
Iowa Farm Bureau
5400 University Avenue
West Des Moines, IA 50266
Phone 515-225-5404
Fax 515-225-5419
Appointed in 2007
Term 2007-2013
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Craig Lang of Brooklyn (Poweshiek
County) serves as president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
He was first elected to this post in December 2001 and
re-elected to a third two-year term at the organization’s 2005
annual meeting.
Craig’s service on the IFBF board of directors
began in 1992 when he was elected as the District 6 representative. He
then served as the organization’s vice president from 1996-2001 before
being elected president. He has been active in the Poweshiek County
Farm Bureau, beginning as a township director in 1982 and continuing
through the offices of vice president, president and voting delegate.
He has served on the Iowa Farm Bureau
Political Action Committee and IFBF and AFBF dairy advisory committees.
He currently serves on the American Farm
Bureau Federation board of directors, representing the Midwest Region.
Craig also serves as director on the Farm Bureau Bank Board in San
Antonio, Texas, as well as a lead director on the Iowa Telecom board.
Previously, he served six years as a director on the GROWMARK Board and
three years as a director on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. Craig served
as chairman of the Iowa Values Fund and most recently was vice chair of
the Iowa Economic Development Board.
Craig farms in partnership with his father and
brother and runs a large dairy operation. Craig is an active
participant at the Madison Church of Christ and a graduate of Iowa State
University. His wife, Mary, is a registered nurse. They have four
children. Later this year, Craig and Mary will welcome a
sixth-generation to their family farm – their son, Cade. Cade will join
the operation after he receives his undergraduate degree from Kirkwood
Community College.
Regent Lang's term on the Board expires April 30, 2013.
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Rose
A. Vasquez
300 Walnut, Unit #115
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone 515-362-0719
Fax 515-247-5874
Appointed in 2004
Term 2004-2011
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Rose Vasquez is employed at the Principal
Financial Group as a Diversity Analyst in its Human Resources
Department. She rejoined the company in July 2006 after serving
2 years as the Executive Director of the Polk County Human
Services Planning Alliance. She was an "executive on loan" from
Principal to the Planning Alliance as a part of the Greater Des
Moines Partnership's Project Destiny. Vasquez joined Principal
in 2002. Prior to that she served as the director of the Iowa
Department of Human Rights from 1999-2002, and as Assistant
Attorney General in the Iowa Attorney General's Office from 1985
to 1999. Vasquez is a native of Moline, Illinois and earned her
bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and her law degree
from Drake University.
Regent Vasquez's term on the Board expires April 30, 2011.
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