"Leadership Springfield alumni bring the knowledge of the community and important networking abilities to nonprofit boards in a way that is productive and significant."

 

-Emily Fox, CEO, Discovery Center of Springfield, Class XV

Community Involvement

ACE, Association of Contemporary Executives

  • Horton, Jeannie

Affordable Housing

  • House, Robin

ALS Community

  • Gipson, Kevin

Alternative Opportunities, INC

  • Matney, Sharon

Alzheimer's Association

American Cancer Society

  • Chronister, Jeff

American Diabetes Association

  • Hoffman, Shari

American Heart Association

  • Cumley, Jeff

American Red Cross

  • Compere, David
  • Marquart, Russell
  • Rader, Jason

Arc of the Ozarks Foundation

  • Kennedy, Troy

Association for Contemporary Executives

Association for Women in Communications

  • Bowling, Marci Ann
  • Johnson, Lori
  • Myers, Wendy
  • Putman, Linda

 

Association of Fundraising Professionals

  • Bowling, Marci Ann
  • Hopkins-McBurnett, Paula

Association of Information Technology Professionals

  • Horton, John

AWC

Baby Bears Inc

  • Hogan, Kevin

Baker Chair of Insurance

BCFO Volunteer for Follies

Better Schools for Kids

  • Maness, Marc

Big Brothers Big Sisters

  • Dalton, Jennifer
  • Horton, Jeannie
  • Patrick, Mark
  • Pohl, Barby
  • Robeson, Robin
  • Smith, Lacey

Board of Education

  • Norman, Mary

Boy Scouts of America

  • Bentley, Jeff
  • Johnson, Randy
  • Meystrick, Joseph
  • Page, Joe
  • Patrick, Mark
  • Rice, Stephen OD
  • Wammack, Jim

Boys & Girls Club of Springfield

  • Barr, Tom
  • Fox, Emily
  • Thomas, Ronald

Boys & Girls Town of Missouri

  • Chronister, Jeff
  • Fowler, Tina
  • Spain, Becky

Breast Cancer Foundation

  • Fry, Virginia
  • Hogan, Kevin
  • Howard, Sandy
  • Rankin, Thomas

Breech School of Business

Buffalo Bancshares, Inc and O'Bannon Bank

Butler, Rosenbury & Partners

  • Kielhofner, Gerri
  • Rosenbury, Tim

Cable Television Advisory Commission

  • Patterson, Jane

Camp Barnabus

Campbell United Methodist

  • Mattson, Mike

CASA

  • Barnes, Lori
  • Brown, Jahara
  • Burris, Greg
  • Derges, Daniel
  • Johnson, Lori

Catholic Campus Ministry

Central High School

Central High School Site Committee

  • Fox, Emily

Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee

  • Cruise, Carol

Champion Athletes of the Ozarks

  • Smith, Lacey

Child Advocacy Center

  • Baldwin, Brent
  • Burks, Stacy

Children's Charities

  • Duncan, Dan

Christ Episcopal Church

  • Bridges, Mike
  • Ross, Mary Kay

Christian County Foster Parent Association

Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-day Saints

Citizens Advisory Board of Probation & Parole

City of Springfield - Cable Television

  • Patterson, Jane

City Utilities

  • Cruise, Carol
  • Manley, Janell
  • Plumpe, Karl

City Utilities Advisory Council

  • Young, Dean

Commerce Bank

  • Ollis, Richard

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks

  • Rankin, Thomas

Community Foundation of the Ozarks

  • Anderson, James B.
  • Ausburn, Kevinn

Community Improvement District

  • Burris, Greg
  • Warlick, Steve

Community Partnership of the Ozarks

  • Anderson, James B.
  • Powell, Mark

Construction Specifications Institute

  • Kielhofner, Gerri

Consumer Credit Counseling Services

  • Schellack, Rod

Continuing Care Committee

  • House, Robin

Convention & Visitors Bureau

  • Anderson, James B.
  • Hargis , Sally
  • Walker, Greg

Convoy of Hope

Council of Churches of the Ozarks

  • Felin, Mar'Ellen
  • Mannix-Decker, Mary
  • McClure, Ken

Council of Churches Foundation Board

  • Vaught, Steve

CoxHealth Systems

  • Fulp, Robert

Crosslines

  • Mannix-Decker, Mary

Cub Scout Pack 116

  • Werner, Jeff

Dallas County Community Foundation

  • Monday, Bill, Jr.

Dallas County Economic Development

Daughters of the American Revolution

  • Brown, Jahara

Deerfield Estates

Developmental Center of the Ozarks

  • Montgomery, David
  • Spain, Becky
  • Wanamaker, John
  • Vaught, Steve

Dewitt & Associates

  • Christian, Blake

Discovery Center

  • Ausburn, Kevinn
  • Baumgartner, Jan
  • Lee, Gerald
  • Siebert, Tim

Distance Learning Consortium

Dogwood Trails Girl Scouts

  • Baker, Ann Marie
  • Brown, Anne Keckeley
  • Crise, Scott
  • Lockhart, Camille
  • Nuber, Darrell

Douglas County Sheriff's Department

  • Meystrick, Joseph

Downtown Optimists of Springfield

  • Felin, Mar'Ellen

Downtown Springfield Community

Drury Alumni

  • Froehle, Joseph
  • Rollins, Sue

Drury Breech School of Business

  • Baker, Ann Marie
  • Lockhart, Camille

Drury Women's Auxiliary

  • Craven, Mary

Earl Collins MO-ARK Kiwanis Foundation

  • Claiborn, Billy

Education & Workforce Solutions

  • Christy, Kathy
  • Wooten, Daniel

Education Task Force

  • Maness, Marc

Emerald Park Home Owners Association

  • Horton, Christiaan

Eugene Field PTA

  • Sullivan Reese, Kim

Evangel University Alumni

  • Chuck Cox
  • Paul K. Logsdon
  • Dennis Whaley

Every Kid Counts

  • Norman, Mary

Female Leaders in Philanthropy

  • Burks, Stacy

First & Calvary Presbyterian Church

  • Baumgartner, Jan
  • Jackson, Steve
  • Price, Kathy

Food Ingredient Technology Company

  • Hellweg, Kurt

Fremont Hills Country Club

  • Chronister, Jeff

Friends of Roy Blunt

Friends of the Zoo Board

  • Slaight, Thomas

Glendale Band Booster

  • Fritts, Kathleen

Glendale High School PTA

  • Price, Kathy

Glenstone Baptist Church

  • Claiborn, Billy

Good Community Committee

  • Wallace, Randall

Good Samaritan Boys Ranch

  • Baldwin, Brent
  • Horton, John

Greater Ozarks Business & Professional Women

  • Biggs, Deborah

Greater Ozarks Chapter of American Red Cross

Green County Historic Sites

  • Christian, Blake

Greene County 911 Advisory Board

  • Scott, Mike
  • Whisler, Dan

Greene County Board of Equalization

  • Jackson, Steve

Greene County Estate Planning Council

  • Hardin, Charlotte
  • Hoffman, Shari
  • Mason, Anne Sallee
  • Matney, Sharon

Greene County Library

  • Compas, Krystal
  • Cook, Sherry
  • Mechlin, Morey
  • Montgomery-Strenger, Stephanie

Greene County Medical Society Alliance

  • Avery, Jane
  • Taylor MD, William
  • Taylor, Maura

Greene County Planning & Zoning

  • McLoud, Tom

Greene County Republican Central Committee

  • Baker, Ann Marie

Greenwood Laboratory School

  • Cook, Sherry
  • Goth, Nancy

Guaranty Bank

  • Hellweg, Kurt

Guaranty Federal Bancshares

  • Rosenbury, Tim

GYN Cancers Alliance

  • Troy Kennedy
  • Evelyn Mangan

Habitat for Humanity

  • Link, Paul

Healthy Community Inc

  • Gipson, Kevin

Hickory Hills Country Club

  • Fulp, Robert
  • Rader, Jason

HIDI

  • Jones, Julie

Highland LGA

  • Scott, Lagena

Highland Springs Country Club

  • Finkle, Rodney

History Museum for Springfield & Greene County

Home Builders Association

  • Bridges, Mike

Hospice Foundation of Southwest Missouri

  • Ramsey, Greg

Ice Park Athletic Foundation

  • Cumley, Jeff

Independent School of Springfield Board

  • Lewis-Young, Tara

Integrity Home Care Medicare Advisory Board

  • Meystrick, Joseph

Intermed Insurance Company

International Adoptive Parents of SW MO

  • Jeff Frye

International Dehydrated Foods

  • Hellweg, Kurt

James River Basin Partnership

  • Hacker, Teri

Jordan Valley Marketing Council

Jordan Valley Park

Junior League of Springfield

  • Benscoter, Jeff
  • Bowling, Marci Ann
  • Cook, Sherry
  • Craven, Mary
  • Dalton, Jennifer
  • Howard, Sandy
  • Jensen, Susan
  • Johnson, Lori
  • Lockhart, Camille
  • Mason, Anne Sallee
  • McAllister, Linda
  • Mechlin, Morey
  • Montgomery-Strenger, Stephanie
  • Patterson, Jane
  • Scott, Lagena
  • Southworth, Nancy
  • Steinberg, Katherine

Junior League of Springfield Sustainer

  • Price, Kathy

Just for Funds Investment

  • Buxton, Phillip

King's Way United Methodist Church

  • Harmison, Jerry Jr.
  • Pearman, Greg

Kiwanis Club of Springfield

  • Claiborn, Billy
  • Cruise, Carol
  • Gassel, Steve
  • Wammack, Jim

Lake Country Soccer

Leadership Missouri

Leadership Springfield

Leadership Springfield Academy

  • Burks, Stacy
  • Logsdon, Paul & Kay
  • Patterson, Jane
  • Pomerenke, David

League of Women Voters

  • Biggs, Deborah
  • Compas, Krystal

Legal Services

  • Link, Paul

Lost and Found

  • Vaught, Steve

Master Gardeners of Southwest Missouri

  • Hopkins-McBurnett, Paula
  • Putman, Linda

Midwest Energy Association

  • Austin, Amy

Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

  • Passanise, Joseph

Missouri Bar Association

  • Horton, Christiaan

Missouri Bar Foundation Law Committee

Missouri Hall of Fame

Missouri Hospital Association

  • Jones, Julie

Missouri Jaycee Foundation Trustee

  • Asberry, Brian

Missouri Optometric Foundation

  • Rice, Stephen OD

Missouri Ozarks

  • Brown, Anne Keckeley

Missouri Probation & Parole Reparation Board

  • Whisler, Dan

Missouri Public Transit Association

Missouri State Board Association

  • Mueller Headley, Jennifer

Missouri State Elevator Board

  • Kielhofner, Gerri

Missouri State Parks & Recreation Association

Missouri State Y Council

  • Nally, Lisa

Missourians for Matt Blunt

National Restaurant Association

  • Warlick, Steve

National Trust for Historic Preservation

  • Warlick, Steve

Natural History Museum of the Ozarks

New Covenant Academy

  • Batten, James

North Rotary

North Springfield Betterment Association

  • Logsdon, Paul
  • Thomas, Ronald

NRPA

  • Adams, Jodie

OTC

  • Riggs, Nancy

Ozark Greenways

  • Adibyazdi, Bruce
  • Bentley, Jeff
  • Hancock, Stephen

Ozark Trails Council

  • Ausburn, Kevinn
  • Hartley, Gene

Ozarks Association of Pharmaceutical Rep.

  • Winter, Diane

Ozarks Chapter of Institute of Transportation Engineers

  • Tate, Brad

Ozarks Counseling Center

Ozarks Fighting Back

  • Davis, Cliff
  • Hinds, Cynthia
  • Hoeman, Michael MD

Ozarks Food Harvest

  • Lewis, James
  • Mattson, Mike

Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation

  • Wanamaker, John

Ozarks Regional Community Development Corp

  • Monday, Bill, Jr.

Ozarks Transportation Organization

  • Hacker, Teri

Parents & Advocates for Gifted Education

Park Crest Baptist Church

PEO

  • Price, Kathy

Pershing Middle School

  • Sullivan Reese, Kim

Phi Delta Theta Educational Foundation

Prairie View Home Owners Association

  • Everett, Cynthia

Price Cutter

  • Siebert, Tim

Probation & Parole’s Restorative Justice Board

  • Pettijohn, Linda

Professional Standards Committee

  • Jeff Frye

Public Relations of the Ozark

Red Cross Disaster & Safety

Regional Girl's Shelter

  • Ramsey, Heather

Relay for Life

  • Felin, Mar'Ellen

Ridgecrest Baptist Church

  • Bennitt, Michael
  • Hicks, Vickie
  • Johnson, Randy

Rivercut Design & Renew

  • Johnson, Randy

Ronald McDonald House

  • Duncan, Dan

Rotaract

  • Smith, Lacey

Rotary Club of Springfield

  • Childs, Jeff
  • Ertel, Dean
  • Hicks, Vickie
  • Marquart, Russell
  • Pearman, Greg
  • Robeson, Robin
  • Rodgers, Charles
  • Titus, Jay

Rountree Neighborhood

  • Hess, David

Safety Council of the Ozarks

Salvation Army

  • Ramsey, Greg
  • Rosenbury, Tim

SAMA

  • Hargis , Sally

School Crossing Protection

  • Nuber, Darrell

Schweitzer United Methodist Church

  • Benscoter, Jeff
  • Buxton, Phillip
  • Finkle, Rodney

Sister Cities Association

  • Cirtin, Brenda
  • Logsdon, Kay
  • Logsdon, Paul
  • Nelson, Bob
  • Whaley, Dennis

SITE Council Central High

  • Young, Dean

Small Business Council

  • Derges, Daniel

Smith-Glynn-Callaway Medical Foundation

  • Taylor MD, William

SMSU Alumni Association

  • Fry, Virginia

SMSU College of Education Advisory Council

  • Fox, Emily

SMSU Consultant Management

  • Christian, Blake

SMSU Foundation

  • Smith, Judith

South Park Church

Southeast Rotary

  • Baldwin, Brent
  • Bennitt, Michael
  • Berlin, Bob
  • Brown, Anne Keckeley
  • Cumley, Jeff
  • Frye, Jeff
  • Hardin, Charlotte
  • Hartley, Gene
  • Jackson, Doug
  • Johnson, Lori
  • Meystrick, Joseph
  • Ollis, Richard
  • Pomerenke, David
  • Ramsey, Heather
  • Rankin, Thomas
  • Rice, Stephen OD
  • Slaight, Thomas
  • Spain, Becky
  • Whaley, Dennis

Southwest Baptist University

  • McLoud, Tom
  • Nuber, Darrell

Southwest Missouri Humane Society

  • Dalton, Jennifer

Special Olympics

  • McAllister, Linda

Sping Bike Bicycle Club

  • Adibyazdi, Bruce

Springfield Apartment & Housing Association

Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce

  • Baker, Ann Marie, Director
  • Barr, Tom
  • Batten, James
  • Buxton, Phillip
  • Davis, Cliff
  • Everett, Cynthia
  • Frye, Jeff
  • Hoeman, Michael MD
  • Jones, Julie
  • Mattson, Mike
  • McClure, Ken
  • Ollis, Richard
  • Patterson, Jane
  • Phillips, Judi
  • Pomerenke, David
  • Riggs, Nancy
  • Rodgers, Charles
  • Tate, Brad
  • Titus, Jay
  • Wallace, Randall
  • Wammack, Jim
  • Whisler, Dan

Springfield Area Sports Commission

  • Lee, Gerald
  • Plumpe, Karl

Springfield Art Museum

  • Berlin, Bob
  • Bridges, Mike

Springfield Ballet Board

  • Mueller Headley, Jennifer

Springfield Barons Club

  • Fulp, Robert

Springfield Board of Realtors

  • Jeff Frye

Springfield Business & Development Corp

  • Baker, Ann Marie

Springfield Catholic School

  • Gassel, Steve
  • Hennessey III, William
  • Taylor, Maura

Springfield Chamber Governmental Relations

Springfield Contractors Association

  • Cernech, Terry

Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau

  • Wallace, Randall

Springfield Downtown Kiwanis Club

Springfield Family Y

  • Nally, Lisa

Springfield Hotel Motel Association

  • Walker, Greg
  • Withers, Barbara

Springfield Little Theatre Board

  • Bridges, Mike
  • Lewis-Young, Tara
  • Matney, Sharon

Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association

  • Bennitt, Michael
  • Mueller Headley, Jennifer
  • Passanise, Joseph

Springfield Music Foundation

  • Hennessey III, William

Springfield National Day of Prayer

  • Siebert, Tim

Springfield North Rotary

  • Anderson, Ronald
  • Logsdon, Paul

Springfield Public School Foundation

  • Balisle, Sean
  • Crise, Scott
  • Harmison, Jerry Jr.
  • Howard, Sandy
  • Montgomery-Strenger, Stephanie
  • Pohl, Barby
  • Prater, Thomas MD
  • Slaight, Thomas
  • Sullivan Reese, Kim
  • Tolliver, Debbie
  • Weber, Janet

Springfield R-12

  • Hoeman, Michael MD

Springfield Regional Art Council

  • Adams, Jodie
  • Everett, Thomas
  • Nally, Lisa
  • Norman, Mary

Springfield Regional Opera

  • Everett, Thomas

Springfield Relay for Life

Springfield School Board

Springfield Symphony

  • Fry, Virginia
  • McClure, Ken

Springfield Trust Company

  • Kennedy, Troy

Springfield Workshop Inc

  • Froehle, Joseph

St. Agnes Home/School

  • Craven, Mary

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish

  • Werner, Jeff

Starlight Debonaires

  • Hinds, Cynthia

Sterling Trust Co.

  • McLoud, Tom

Summit Optimist

Sunrise Rotary

  • Finkle, Rodney
  • Fritts, Kathleen
  • Hadsall, Judy (Straatmann)
  • Harmison, Jerry Jr.
  • Horton, Christiaan
  • Link, Paul
  • Lundstrom, Loren
  • Rollins, Sue
  • Roth, Timothy
  • Stevenson, Robert
  • Werner, Jeff

 

Teen Court

  • McAllister, Linda

The Doula Foundation of Mid America

  • Ross, Mary Kay

The Kitchen Foundation

  • Frye, Jeff
  • Hennessey III, William
  • Ross, Mary Kay
  • Roth, Timothy

The Victim Center

  • Brown, Jahara
  • Phillips, Judi
  • Wetzel, Wm. Stuart

Tooth Truck

  • Ramsey, Greg

Tower Club

Traffic Advisory

  • Adibyazdi, Bruce

Transportation Advisory

  • Monday, Bill, Jr.

Twin Oaks Country Club

  • Marquart, Russell

Uban Neighborhood Alliance

  • Gipson, Kevin

UMR

  • Christy, Kathy

United Way

  • Dalton, Jennifer
  • Derges, Daniel
  • Lewis, James
  • Lundstrom, Loren
  • Page, Doug

University Child Care

  • Wetzel, Wm. Stuart

University Heights Baptist Church

  • Luxton, Nancy

University of Missouri Alumni Association

  • Baker, Ann Marie

University of Missouri Extension Council Board

  • Adams, Jodie

Urban Districts Alliance

  • Page, Joe

Vatterott College

  • Riggs, Nancy

Violence Free Families

  • Taylor, Maura

Vision 20/20

  • Maness, Marc

Watershed Committee of the Ozarks

  • Wetzel, Wm. Stuart

Well of Life Resource Center

  • Price, Kathy

WIA Youth Council

Wilson Creek Foundation

Workforce Improvement

  • Vaught, Steve

YMCA

  • Rogers, Roddy