Who We Are

Board of Directors & Officers

Nelle Woods Jamison

Board Member – Chair
Community Volunteer

Michelle Suarez

Board Member — Vice Chair
Community Volunteer

Hank Woods

Board Member – Treasurer
VP Development, LINE Partners

Michael J. Tavlin

Assistant Treasurer
Managing Director,
Pacific Asset Management, LLC

Pablo Cervantes

Board Member
Affordable Housing Investor
Community Volunteer

Jay Conrad

Board Member
Community Volunteer

Suk Wortman

Board Member
Director of Direct Marketing,
Arbor Day Foundation

Charlie Foster

Board Member
Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor
for Diversity and Inclusion,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Staff

Thomas C. Woods IV

President & Board Secretary

Joan Stolle

Operations Manager

Kathy Steinauer Smith

Senior Community Investment Director

Nicole Juranek

Community Investment Director

Former Board Members

Donna W. Woods

Chair Emerita

  • 2001-2019
  • Chair, 2007-2019

Michael J. Tavlin

  • 2000-2006
  • Chair, 2005-2006

Stephen Sands

  • 1999-2004
  • Chair, 2003-2004

Thomas D. Potter

  • 1997-2002
  • Chair, 2000-2002

Thomas C. Woods III

  • 1994-2000
  • Chair, 1994-2000

Ed Wimes

  • 2017-2022

Candice Howell

  • 2015-2020

Carl Eskridge

  • 2013-2018

Ernesto Castillo Jr.

  • 2012-2017

Orville Jones III

  • 2011-2016

Kathleen Rutledge

  • 2009-2014

Tyre (TJ) McDowell

  • 2007-2012

Jose J. Soto

  • 2006-2011

Ann Chang

  • 2005-2010

Lynn Roper

  • 2003-2008

Eugene Crump

  • 2000-2005

Susan Ugai

  • 1999-2004

Avery L. Woods

  • 1998-2005

Marjorie J. Woods

  • 1995-2000

Joel Gajardo

  • 1994-1998

Marilyn Johnson-Farr

  • 1994-1998

Marie Fischer

  • 1992-1996

Sydney Beane

  • 1991-1994

Sheila Griffin

  • 1987-1991