Cathy E. Minehan ’68, who served as a University of Rochester Board of Trustees member for 20 years before becoming a life trustee in May 2015, has been re-elected by the Board to serve again as a voting trustee.
Minehan is former chief executive officer and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and is well known for her work in national and international payment systems. She has also served as dean of the School of Management at Simmons College in Boston, and is managing director of Arlington Advisory Partners, the Boston-based business services provider. Minehan has been chair of the Massachusetts General Hospital Board of Trustees since 2008. She is the first woman to lead that hospital’s governing body in the organization’s 200-year history.
“Cathy has made exceptional contributions to the Board and the University over many decades of distinguished service, and I’m very happy to have the chance to work more closely with her,” said Board Chair Danny Wegman. “Thanks to the generosity of Cathy and her husband, the University has been strengthened in many key areas, particularly in being able to provide greater support for outstanding faculty and students. Welcome back, Cathy!”
“I am delighted that Cathy has returned as a voting trustee,” said University President and CEO Joel Seligman. “She is a highly respected leader who brings extraordinary financial, health care, and management expertise that will be invaluable as we move the University to The Next Level.”
Minehan’s ties to Rochester span generations. She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University in 1968. Her father, Harry Jones, was a 1957 graduate; her son, Brian Minehan, is a 2004 graduate; and her daughter-in-law, Cherie Minehan, is a 2005 graduate. She began as a trustee of the University in 1995, and was chair of the Board’s executive committee from May 2003 to May 2012. She had a consequential role in the Board’s audit and risk assessment committee, among other Board committees.
Minehan recently served as a national co-chair of The Meliora Challenge, the University’s $1.2 billion comprehensive campaign that concluded in June 2016 and raised more than $1.37 billion. Her leadership helped drive giving from more than 200,000 donors and exceed the campaign goal by more than $168 million.
In 2014, Minehan and her husband, Jerry Corrigan, committed an additional $1 million of support to the Cathy E. Minehan and E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Scholarship, which they established at the University in 2004. She and her husband additionally established the Corrigan-Minehan Professorship in Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences in 2007. They are also charter members of the George Eastman Circle, the University’s leadership annual giving society.
Minehan also holds an MBA from New York University, which she received with distinction in 1977.
