Governor makes appointments to Cincinnati State board of trustees
December 17, 2009
Gov. Ted Strickland has filled two vacancies on the board of trustees of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.
Named recently to serve on the nine-member board were:
- Cathy Crain, a retired investment counselor and a well-known arts and civic volunteer in Greater Cincinnati. She will serve the remainder of a term that expires October 30, 2010.
- Robert Ringel, vice president, legal and assistant corporate secretary for Duke Energy. He will serve a term that expires October 31, 2014.
Crain is a retired vice president of the investment firm Scudder, Stevens & Clark, and from 1980-1994 held positions at National City Bank Corp. that included vice president of investments and chairman of charitable investments.
She is active in civic, philanthropic and arts organizations in Greater Cincinnati. She currently serves as President of the Cincinnati Opera Board of Trustees, President of the Cincinnati Parks Foundation, and as a board member of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Fine Arts Fund and the Hamilton County Hospital Commission. She is also an ad hoc member of the City of Cincinnati’s Retirement Commission and is a board member of the WorldWatch Institute in Washington, D.C.
Crain holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; a master’s degree in environmental studies from Cleveland State University and a law degree from the University of Akron.
Ringel, a Cincinnati native, worked in private practice before joining Cinergy Corp. in 2004 prior to its merger with Duke Energy.
He was a partner and associate at the Thompson Hine law firm in Cincinnati from 2001-2004, and was an associate with the Jones Day law firm in Cleveland from 1995-2001.
Ringel earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Indiana University in 1991 before graduating from the Ohio State University College of Law in 1994. He earned a master’s of law degree in taxation from the New York University School of Law in 1995.
Trustees at Ohio’s technical and community colleges serve without compensation.
