Boards

Executive Committee

Sue Wilkins, CDM, CFPP
Chair
Wilkins is a Certified Dietary Manager at Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola, Missouri.

Ricky Clark, CDM, CFPP
Chair-Elect
Clark is a Training and Development Coordinator for the Academy for Staff Development in Crozier, Virginia.

Ginger Cater, CDM, CFPP
Secretary-Treasurer
Cater is a Nutritional Assessment Specialist, CES at Westside Living Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

Linda Hackworth, CDM, CFPP
Immediate Past Chair
Hackworth is a Dietary Manager Consultant with Dietary Consultants Inc. in Richmond, Kentucky.

Directors At Large, CDM, CFPP

Paula Bradley, CDM, CFPP
Bradley is a Dietary Supervisor at Protection Valley Manor in Protection, Kansas.

Carolyn Cooper, CDM, CFPP
Cooper is a Food Service Director at Twin Lakes Community in Burlington, North Carolina.

Richard Farmer, CDM, CFPP
Farmer works as a Nutrition Care Specialist at Mennonite Village in Albany, Oregon.

Janice Hemel, CDM, CFPP
Hemel is a Food Service Director at Lane County Hospital in Dighton, Kansas.

Kathryn Massey, CDM, CFPP
Massey is a Dietary Manager at Floyd Valley Hospital in LeMars, Iowa.

Debbie Padilla, CDM, CFPP
Padilla is the Assistant Manager of Nutrition Services at Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mt. Vernon, Missouri.

Directors At Large, Industry

Catherine Cape
Cape is the Director of Leadership Development and Training for Morrison Healthcare Food Services in Atlanta, Georgia.

Paul Gustafson
Gustafson is a Divisional Director of Operations at Orion Operating Services in Columbus, Ohio.

Directors At Large, Supplier Members

Rob Geile
Director of Consultant Services
Hobart-Traulsen
Imperial, MO

Jacqui Gustafson
Vice President of Marketing
Dinex International Inc.
Glastonbury, CT

HCI Liasion
Kristi Salisbury, CDM, CFPP, RD
Mendota Hts, MN

Staff Liason
William St. John, CAE
President & CEO
Dietary Managers Association
St. Charles, IL

Assigned Tasks: To establish and monitor policy governing the certification program, to accept responsibility for the financial management of the program, and to maintain an official roster of certified dietary managers.

Katherine Church, RD, Executive Director (Staff)
Susan Davis Allen, MS, RD, Special Advisor to the CBDM (Wisconsin)
Linda L. Byers, CDM, CFPP (Minnesota)
Debra D. Dawson, CDM, CFPP (Iowa)
Ralph Luedtke (Wisconsin)
Deborah F. McDonald, CDM, CFPP (Texas)
Becky Rude, MS, RD, CDM, CFPP (Minnesota)
Iris Savich (Oregon)
Colleen A. Zenk, CDM, CFPP (Minnesota)

DMA Foundation Board Of Directors
Vicky Kearney, CDM, CFPP, Chair (Missouri)
Erma O’Neil, CDM, CFPP, Immediate Past Chair (Texas)
Linda Hackworth, CDM, CFPP, Secretary-Treasurer/DMA Board Liaison (Kentucky)

Directors
Millie Bailey Zarate, CDM, CFPP – Vendor Liaison to IAC (Simply Thick)
Phillis Fletcher, CDM, CFPP, Past-Chair (Florida)
Rob Geile – DMA Board Vendor Liaison (Hobart-Traulsen)
Jim Hartman, CDM, CFPP (Virginia)
Janice Hemel, CDM, CFPP – DMA Board Liaison (Kansas)
Tim Wayne – Vendor Liaison to IAC (Folgers Coffee)

Executive Director
Marla Isaacs, CAE (Staff)

DMA Foundation Council Of Advisors
Betty Beilstein (Oregon)
Ruth G. Boese (Wisconsin)
Francis M. Bowler, CDM, CFPP (Illinois)
Geneva Conway, CDM, CFPP (New York)
Debra Dawson, CDM, CFPP (Iowa)
Doris Douglas, CDM, CFPP (Tennessee)
Phyllis Ensor, CDM, CFPP (Tennessee)
Linda Halverson, CDM, CFPP (Wisconsin)
Howard Kemp, Jr. (Ohio)
Maurice Latimer, CDM, CFPP (Michigan)
Howard Maxwell, CDM, CFPP (Illinois)
Kristi Salisbury, RD, CDM, CFPP (Minnesota)
Virginia Stoner (Maryland)
Melodie M. Wilkey, CDM, CFPP (Illinois)
Shirley Williams (Florida)
Colleen Zenk, CDM, CFPP (Minnesota)