Chi Omega Foundation Board of Trustees
Purpose: The Foundation Board of Trustees is responsible for funding Chi Omega Fraternity’s educational activities for the benefit of its members.
Foundation President
Ann Bradshaw
Tau Beta | Oklahoma State
Service to Chi Omega: Current Chi Omega Foundation President; current Ever at Heart Steering Committee Chair; member of The 1895 Society and the Margaret Hyde Heritage Society.
Ann Bradshaw is a retired tax partner with Ernst & Young, LLP in Houston, Texas where she served on America’s Indirect Tax core leadership team. Prior to that role, Ann served as the National Director for EY’s Affordable Care Act Tax Services, is the former Chair of EY’s Indirect Tax Technical Review Committee, and was an elected member of the National Tax Partner Forum. During her over 35 years with EY, Ann has been involved with leadership development opportunities for the women and rising professionals at her firm.
Ann serves on Advisory Boards for the Houston Baptist University School of Business, the Oklahoma State University School of Accounting, and Houston Area Baptist Student Ministries. Ann is an inductee to the Oklahoma State University College of Business Hall of Fame and honored as a Distinguished Alumni for OSU.
She views The Nancy Walton Laurie Leadership Institute of Chi Omega as a way for Sisters to be empowered leaders in their own personal and professional lives and has been an avid supporter.
Foundation Vice-President
Laura Shrode Miller
Rho Epsilon | Texas Christian University
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as Vice-President of the Foundation and National Fraternity President. Laura has an extensive Chi Omega volunteer resume. She served as an advisor to Rho Epsilon Chapter from 1980 to 2010, was a founding member of the National Recruitment Team, and was its Chair from 1991-1998. She also served as Chair of Resolutions, and Credentials and Tellers committees and led various Firesides and Convention workshops as a presenter and facilitator. She led the revision of the Membership Education Experience debuting at the 2014 convention and has actively participated in Extension efforts since 2010.
She is the past President of the Fort Worth Chi Omega Alumnae Chapter and recipient of The Outstanding Alumna Award. She served as S.N.V. 2010-2016, S.T.B. 2016-2020, and now serves as S.H. for the 2020-2024 biennium.
Professionally, Laura is the Fort Worth Market President of Veritex Community Bank. She was recognized as Tarrant County’s Banker of the Year and honored as a Great Woman of Texas by The Fort Worth Business Press in 2017.
Laura and her husband, Tod, reside with their family in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Foundation Secretary
Danna Redmond
Alpha Gamma | Utah State
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves Chi Omega as a Foundation Secretary; member of the Alumnae Connections Team; Advisor for Alpha Chapter at the University of Washington; served on the National Advisory Training Team; traveled as a National Leadership Consultant; served as G.H. and G.T.B of Alpha Gamma Chapter and a long-time supporter of Chi Omega Foundation. Professionally Danna is a start-up advisor and strategy consultant with Mohair Consulting.
Danna is an entrepreneur at heart having founded multiple companies since leaving Microsoft after a seventeen-year career spanning a variety of leadership roles. She also serves as Trustee for Seattle Country Day School and is the former Advisory Board Chair and Secretary for Home Step.
Danna lives in Seattle, WA, with her husband, Brian, and son, Cole.
Foundation Treasurer
Letitia Niemeier Fulkerson
Zeta Alpha | Ohio State
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves Chi Omega as the Foundation Treasurer. Letitia’s service to Chi Omega Fraternity has been constant since her collegiate experience. She has served Chi Omega in many different capacities, including multiple Fraternity staff roles and service on Chi Omega volunteer teams and committees. Letitia joined the Chi Omega Governing Council in 2004 as Treasurer and was the first ex-officio Foundation Trustee when that role was created in 2006.
She became Fraternity President in 2008, serving for six years, and was appointed to serve as Foundation President starting in 2017 and concluding on November 30, 2021. Letitia received Chi Omega’s highest award for Fraternity service, the President’s Award, in 2016.
Professionally, Letitia owns an award-winning State Farm Agency. She and her husband, Mike, reside in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Foundation Trustee
Susan Miller Bush
Epsilon Beta | UNC-Chapel Hill; Affiliate Pi | UT-Knoxville
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as a Trustee, member of the Ever at Heart Campaign Steering Committee, Chapter Historian, and State Recruitment Information Chairman. Previously she has served on the National Foundation Scholarship Selection Committee, Donor Relations Committee, as the Pi Chapter New Member Advisor, and as Fraternity Regional Alumnae Director for Midwest.
Professionally, Susan previously worked as a Chancery Court Clerk, then for Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead, The Trust Company, and the Bush Brothers & Company. Susan is on the Bush Family Senate. Her husband, Jay, works for Bush Brothers and Company and serves on the Bush Brothers Company Board, the JonnyPops Board, and the York Industries Board.
Susan and Jay live in Appleton, Wisconsin, and Knoxville, Tennessee. They have two sons, Ian Laseter Bush (Nashville) and James “Cameron” Bush (Denver).
Foundation Trustee
Cathey Humphreys
Epsilon Alpha | Oklahoma
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as a Foundation Trustee and member of the Ever at Heart Campaign Steering Committee. Cathey previously served on the Iota Alpha House Corporation at SMU. She is a graduate of The Nancy Walton Laurie Leadership Institute of Chi Omega.
Cathey has a teaching degree, is very interested in educating educators, and is committed to helping young people pursue their academic and career goals through the experience of studying abroad. Cathey and her husband Don established The Humphreys Chi Omega Scholarship for Study Abroad Fund.
Don is a Sigma Nu from Oklahoma State and a retired Senior Vice President and Principal Financial Officer of ExxonMobil. As Cathey and Don moved multiple times through the US and internationally, she would contact the Chi Omegas in each new city. The Humphreys have lived in Dallas for 25 years and have a home in Crested Butte, CO, and Santa Fe, NM. They have three daughters.
Foundation Trustee
Gail Webb Muncrief
Tau Beta | Oklahoma State
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves Chi Omega as a Foundation Trustee; member of the Oklahoma City and Edmond Chi Omega Alumnae Chapters, and the Oklahoma City Chi Omega Board for the Hearts for Hearing annual fundraiser. Served on the Tau Beta Capital Raise Committee for the new house. Gail is a Flagship graduate of The Nancy Walton Laurie Leadership Institute of Chi Omega.
Gail currently serves Oklahoma State University as a Foundation Board Trustee. She is committed to philanthropic work and serves with several nonprofit organizations including the Oklahoma City Memorial and Museum Board as a Trustee.
Gail ‘s educational career involved relocations into five states and various teaching opportunities including classroom teaching in elementary, middle school, high school, and college; as well as, working as a university extension educator for Montana State University and New Mexico State University. Today, she remains involved in her western Oklahoma agriculture and cattle operations.
Gail and her husband Rick have shared more than 40 years of life adventures. Rick is a Petroleum Engineer working as CEO for Devon Energy. They are proud parents to a married son and a married daughter, and grandparents of two boys. Daughter, Melinda, is a Chi Omega from New Mexico State and served as G.H. of the Pi Delta Chapter at NMSU, as her mom served as
G. H. for the Tau Beta Chapter at OSU.
Foundation Trustee
Dana Tucker Kleine
Psi | Arkansas
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as Foundation Trustee, served as Recruitment Chair at Psi Chapter 1984, and assisted Psi Chapter house fundraising projects in Fayetteville.
After graduation, with a degree in Marketing from the University of Arkansas, Dana flew as a flight attendant with American Airlines. Since 2012, Dana has represented Rodan+Fields skincare brand as an independent consultant leading and training a team across the U.S., Canada and Australia. Dana has served on several local non-profit boards and committees including Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansas, The Twentieth Century Club of Little Rock, Mount St. Mary Academy, and Christ the King Catholic Church. Dana also served as a Board Trustee on the National Basketball Association "Behind the Bench" wives association raising funds for numerous non-profit agencies nationwide.
Dana and her husband, Joe, met at the University of Arkansas where he played College basketball and earned the honors of Newcomer of the year, All - SW Conference first team and received a gold medal as a member of the 1984 Olympic Basketball team. Joe played 15 years in the NBA with a highlight being on the 1998 World Champion Chicago Bulls team. Having played with 7 different NBA teams, Dana and Joe would volunteer in every city they lived. Dana and Joe are long-time co-owners of two Corky’s Ribs & BBQ restaurants in central Arkansas. They are avid Arkansas Razorback and Kansas City Chief fans.
They have two daughters, Courtney & Mallory, two sons, Daniel & Will along with two grandchildren, Danny, JoJo, Maddie, and Lucy.
Foundation Trustee
Kelly Rucker Bingel
Phi Gamma | LSU
Service to Chi Omega: Current Chi Omega Foundation Trustee; 2013 Firesides leader; former Chapter Visitor (i.e. National Leadership Consultant) 1989-1990; served on the 2021-2022 Volunteer Development Strategic Initiative; represented Chi Omega on the Fraternity and Sorority PAC Board and NPC Government Relations Advisory Committee; former Advisor for Eta Lambda Chapter at American University; previous Congressional Awareness Committee leader; served on National Recruitment Team; former Chapter President and Panhellenic delegate at LSU; member of the Margaret Hyde Heritage Society; Co-Chair of the 1895 Society Committee.
Children: son Johnny and daughter Hogan
Career: Kelly started her career as a newspaper reporter in Houston and Tulsa and then transitioned to Washington, D.C., where she spent a decade working for Blanche Lincoln in the House and Senate. Kelly’s last position as a Congressional staff member was serving as Blanche’s chief of staff in the Senate. Kelly has also lobbied for AT&T and was the only woman partner in a bipartisan lobbying firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen Bingel & Thomas. Kelly is on the Board of Visitors for LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and the Board of Directors for SCORE. Kelly’s husband, Thad, is a founding partner of Command Consulting Group. Kelly and Thad opened Dynamic Gymnastics in 2013 and sold it a decade later. In her free time, Kelly enjoys golf, Bible studies, and yoga.
Foundation Trustee
Jan Lemons Heck
Lambda | Kansas
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as a Trustee for the Chi Omega Foundation and served on the Donor Relations Committee.
After graduating from the University of Kansas, Jan earned a law degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. She practiced oil and gas law in Wichita, Kansas as in-house counsel for Koch Industries, Inc. until their daughter was born. Now that their daughter is in college, Jan and her husband Steve split their time between Cincinnati, Eastern Arkansas, and New Orleans.
Foundation Trustee
Laura Connor
Psi | Arkansas
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as Foundation Trustee; She has served on the Foundation’s Donor Relations Committee since its inception in 2007 and currently serves as Co-Chair. She is also involved with the Little Rock Chi Omega Alumnae Chapter.
Laura was Chi Omega’s Supreme Governing Council Model Initiate at Convention in 1998 and is a third-generation Chi Omega with two older sisters who both pledged Chi Omega, and numerous Chi Omega cousins and aunts.
Laura volunteers as a committee member for Sculpture at the River Market, serves as Trustee for the HoganTaylor Foundation, member of the Leadership Greater Little Rock Class XXXV, and is a Sustainer member of the Junior League of Little Rock. She is currently the Marketing Manager at HoganTaylor LLP, an accounting and advisory firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Foundation Trustee
Erin Chambers Packwood
Psi Zeta | Houston
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as a Foundation Trustee and Ever at Heart Campaign National Steering Committee member, a longtime advisor to Psi Zeta Chapter, former Treasurer and President of the Houston Alumnae Association; Vice President of Kaleidoscope, the Houston Alumnae’s philanthropic and scholarship entity; and member of the Margaret Hyde Heritage Society.
Erin recently retired from Sysco, the world’s largest food service distribution company, serving in an executive-level human resources role. Her husband Mark graduated from Texas A&M University and is currently Vice President of Sales for Brown & Brown Insurance of Texas. There, he leads a team of brokers specializing in commercial property & casualty and employee benefits insurance programs.
Erin and her husband, Mark, are active in their community, supporting and serving various mental health, hunger, and other children’s causes in the Houston area. They have two daughters, Kennedy (Xi Kappa | Texas A&M) and Sydney (a graduate of the U of Houston).
Foundation Trustee
Corinna Young Casey
Kappa Lambda | UC - San Diego
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves Chi Omega as a Foundation Trustee and Advisor for Kappa Lambda chapter at UC – San Diego. She previously served Chi Omega on the Special Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Donor Relations Committee; Scholarship Committee; and the NPC Foundation Scholarship Committee.
Corinna is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in the management of chronic illness for adults and stress management for graduate students.
She also serves in leadership roles in the Parents Association at La Jolla Country Day School and is a member of the Del Sol chapter of the National Charity League with her daughter Allison.
Corinna lives in Del Mar, CA with her husband Patrick, daughter Allison and son Anthony.
Ex-Officio Trustee
Nancy Walton Laurie
Psi | Arkansas
Service to Chi Omega: An ex-officio member of the Foundation Board of Trustees, Nancy has made extraordinary commitments to Chi Omega throughout her lifetime. Our cornerstone leadership program is named The Nancy Walton Laurie Leadership Institute of Chi Omega in honor of Nancy’s lifelong dedication to and support of our Fraternity, and she was presented the Roselyn T. Dabbs Philanthropist Award during Chi Omega Convention 2000. Nancy magnanimously bestowed the largest single gift in Chi Omega’s 119-year history to launch our $20 million Sisterhood Never Stops Campaign.
Nancy served as recruitment advisor for Rho Alpha Chapter at the University of Missouri, and as a member of its House Corporation Board. Nancy is a civic leader and avid supporter of the arts. She and her husband William reside in Columbia, Missouri and Henderson, Nevada. The couple has one daughter.
Ex-Officio Trustee
Anna Funderburk Buckner
Alpha Beta | Auburn
Service to Chi Omega: Currently serves as the Fraternity's National Vice President and ex-officio member of the Foundation Board of Trustees; former National Treasurer on the Governing Council; Chapter President; Chapter Visitor; Advisor to Omicron Lambda Chapter since 1998; National Recruitment Team Member for 17 years; Mary Love Collins Scholar recipient; and Attorney for NPC’s Something of Value.
Professionally, Anna has her own law firm specializing in taxation, estates, and trusts. She resides in Auburn, AL with her husband James Randy “Bo” Buckner Jr., and their son James Randy “J.R.” Buckner III.
Foundation Trustee Emeritus
Melanie Maxwell Shain
Chi Delta | Millsaps College
Service to Chi Omega: Currently holds the position of Trustee Emeritus, having served as Foundation Treasure; House Corporation Board at Beta Alpha/ Pennsylvania and Iota Lambda/Villanova; former National President (S.H.), National Ritual officer (S.M.), and National Treasurer (S.N.V.) for the Fraternity; former National Leadership Consultant; and former member of the National Panhellenic Conference delegation; was the 2000 recipient of the Chi Omega President’s Award and 2022 Roselyn T. Dabbs Philanthropist Award.
Melanie received her MBA from LSU and is a retired banker and investment manager. John is past President and co-founder of Automated Financial Systems, a software and services company, for banks and financial institutions. AFS is headquartered in Exton, a suburb of Philadelphia. Melanie and John reside in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania with adoring cats and dogs.
Foundation Trustee Emeritus
Sandra McAdams Connor
Psi | Arkansas
Service to Chi Omega: Currently holds the position of Trustee Emeritus, having served as Foundation Secretary from 1998 – 2016. As Chair of the Foundation’s A Loyalty to Sisterhood Campaign, Sandra Connor helped raise $9.5 million for the Chi Omega permanent endowment. Sandra has inspired philanthropic leadership in others by example.
She and her husband, Bob, live in Little Rock and Dallas. They are the parents of three Chi Omegas and the grandparents of four boys and a girl.
Foundation Trustee Emeritus
Jane Wickard Rogers
Psi | Arkansas
Service to Chi Omega: Currently holds the position of Trustee Emeritus. A former professional fundraiser and special events coordinator, Jane served as the Executive Director for Riverfest, one of the South’s largest festivals, and as Director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage. Her community services includes Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees for the University of Arkansas and the President of the Sculpture at River Market Committee.
Her Chi Omega volunteer roles have included: Regional Alumnae Director, Centennial Celebration Chair, Fraternity National Alumnae Officer, and National Secretary.
Jane joined the Foundation Board of Trustees in 2000 and served as President from 2000 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2016.
Jane received Chi Omega’s highest award for Fraternity service, the President’s Award, in 2002.
She and her husband, Jay, live in Little Rock, Arkansas. They have a Chi Omega daughter, a son, and four grandchildren.