Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee assists the board in fulfilling its responsibility to: identify and recruit potential new elected trustees; recommend to the executive committee an annual class of new and renewing elected trustees; and ensure the skill sets and diversity that are in the best interest of the board.
The board has delegated authority to the committee to: define a recruitment strategy; cultivate a membership pipeline; review candidates referred for membership; and recommend new and renewing members.
Members of the committee include the immediate past chair, who shall serve as chair of the committee, board chair, executive committee chair, committee on trustees chair, development committee chair, and three (3) additional non-executive committee elected trustees. Ex-officio members of the Committee are the foundation’s president and vice president/secretary.
Craig A. Thompson ’92, J.D. ’95
Partner, Venable LLP
Executive Chairman, Unifi Manufacturing Inc.
Artist and Philanthropist
Member, Feldman LLC
Philanthropist
Managing Director, Charles Schwab
Co-President, D&H Distributing Company
Staff
Chair: Paul Mandell
Committee staff: Lauren Norris
Vice President & Secretary, University of Maryland College Park Foundation
Senior Director for Board Operations and Engagement
0132 Thomas V. Miller, Jr. Administration Building
College Park, MD 20742
lnorris@umd.edu | 301.405.2102