CHICAGO—The following individuals have been elected as general trustees to the Rush University Medical Center Board of Trustees: Andrew McKenna Jr., Alejandro Silva and Charles A. Tribbett. Mary Severino Meyer, MS, RN, and Jerald William Hoekstra have been elected as annual trustees. In addition, four new vice chairs of the Board were elected, Susan Crown, William M. Goodyear, Robert L. Heidrick and Donald G. Lubin. Their elections were announced by Richard M. Jaffee, chairman of the Rush board, at the Annual Meeting on November 12.

Andrew McKenna, Jr., of Chicago, is president of the Schwarz Paper Company, a national distributor of paper and packaging products, in Morton Grove, Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame in 1979 and has been a business, civic and political leader in Illinois for more than 20 years. In the mid-1990s, he served   as chair of the Education Committees of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and the Illinois Business Roundtable. He also chaired the Illinois Business Education Coalition. Since 2005 McKenna has been chairman of the Illinois Republican Party.

Alejandro Silva, of Chicago, is chairman and CEO of Evans Food Group, Ltd., the largest Hispanic-owned business in Chicago and the world’s largest pork rind snack manufacturer. Silva received his B.S. in food technology from Instituto Tecnologica y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, and his M.S. in food engineering from the National College of Food Technology in Weybridge Surrey, England. Silva is active in numerous civic and charitable organizations. He is chairman of the finance and budgeting committee for the Chicago Transit Authority. He is also chairman of the Chicago/Mexico Sister Cities Committee. He   serves on the executive committee of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, is president of the Mid-America Chapter, United States/Mexico Chamber of Commerce; and is a board member of the New America Alliance, the Renaissance Schools Fund and the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Silva is   a director of Privatebancorp, Inc., and earlier this year was elected to the board of directors of Walgreens as an independent director.

Executive recruiter Charles A. Tribbett III, of Chicago, is managing director of the Chicago office of Russell Reynolds Associates, where he oversees the CEO and Board Placement Services Practice. He is a graduate of Marquette University, where he received his B.S. degree in accounting in 1977, and earned his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1980. He serves on the Chicago Urban League board and is on the board of the Chicago Symphony. Fortune magazine has called Tribbett one of the 50 most powerful African American executives in America. In 2005, he was elected to the board of directors for the Northern Trust Company. He is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Mary Severino Meyer, MS, RN, of Western Springs, Illinois, is the new president of the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s (RPSL) Nurses Alumni Association, having assumed office in October. She is a graduate of Marquette University where she earned her B.S. degree in nursing. In 1994, she earned her Master of Science in nursing from Rush University. Earlier this year she completed a Postmaster’s Certificate in the Clinical Nurse Specialist Program and recently she passed the Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification test. From 1999 to 2006, she was clinical coordinator for Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Health Learning Center. Currently she is the clinical coordinator for medicine at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital. Meyer has been a vice president on the RPSL Nurses Alumni Association board for two terms and chairs its Young Alumni Task Force.

Jerald William Hoekstra, of St. Anne, Illinois, senior partner of Hoekstra Farms, LLC, was   elected as an annual trustee at Rush University Medical Center. He earned his degree from Southern Illinois University. Over the years, he has served on several voluntary boards. He is currently   vice chairman of Riverside Healthcare, which is affiliated with Rush as a member hospital of the Rush System for Health.  Hoekstra is also chairman of the Riverside Healthcare Governance Board, the Riverside Healthcare Finance Committee, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and has also served as vice chairman of the Kankakee Community College Board of Trustees.

Susan Crown, of Chicago, has been a general trustee at Rush since 1986 and for more than 10 years chaired the Nominations and Trustee Planning (now Nominations and Governance) Committee. Since January 2006, she has chaired the Facilities Committee. She has been a member of the Executive Committee since 1988. She also currently serves on the Campaign Committee. Crown is vice president of Henry Crown & Company.

William M. Goodyear, of Chicago, has been a general trustee at Rush since 1995 and since 2004 has served as chairman of the Finance Committee. Prior to that time, he was a member of the combined Finance and Audit Committee. He has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2000. Goodyear is chairman and chief executive officer of Navigant Consulting, Inc.

Robert L. Heidrick, of Chicago, has been a general trustee at Rush since 2000 and since 2006 has served as chairman of the Nominations and Governance Committee. He has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2006 and is also active on the Corporate Campaign Committee and the Campaign Committee, as well as the Leadership Committee for the Rush Heart and Vascular Institute. Heidrick is the retired vice chairman and managing director of Global Industrial Practice for Spencer Stuart. He remains an advisor to the firm.

Donald G. Lubin, Esq., of Highland Park, has been a general trustee at Rush since 1977 and has been a member of the Executive Committee since 1978. He served on the Interinstitutional Affairs Committee, when it was active in the 1980s and 1990s; the Campaign for Rush Campaign Committee in the 1990s; and the Facilities Committee for the past ten years. From 2001 until May of 2008 he served as chairman of the Anchor Cross Society, and is currently active on the Nominations and Governance Committee and the Campaign Committee (including its predecessor the Leadership Gifts Committee). Lubin is a partner with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.

The Rush Board of Trustees consists of 90 individuals who serve voluntarily and who represent the community, corporate and non-profit business leadership. The Board is the ultimate decision-making body of Rush University Medical Center and provides general oversight and guidance to senior management of Rush.