MPA Foundation Leadership
The Foundation is managed by a Board of Trustees consisting of five trustees, all of whom are past presidents of the Michigan Press Association. Trustees hold office for one year and election to the offices of president and secretary-treasurer are made yearly by the Board of Trustees at the annual meeting of the Michigan Press Association in January of each year.
Executive Officers
President
Dirk Milliman
MPA President 1996
Vice President
Lonnie Peppler-Moyer
MPA President 2008
Secretary-Treasurer
Bill Speer
MPA President 2015
Board Members
Paul Bedient
MNI President 1998
Jenny Anderson
MPA President 2011
Chris Huckle
MPA President 2013
Jim Young
MPA President 2012
Brad Thompson
MPA President 2018
Marcia Loader
MPA President 2006
Margaret Trimer
Delta Dental
Jim Wojcik
J-school Central Michigan University
Janet Nellis Mendler
Retired Journalism Educator
Rich Perlberg
MPA President 2002
Richard Lamb
Presque Isle County Advance
James Tarrant
Executive Director
Kevin Hook
MPA President 2019