Penn State Board Of Trustees Re-Elects
Hintz As Chairman, Baldwin As Vice-Chairman
January 17, 2003
University Park, Pa. – Edward R. Hintz, Jr., president of the New York-based private money management firm Hintz, Holman, and Hecksher, Inc., and Cynthia Baldwin, judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, were re-elected chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of Penn State's Board of Trustees today (Jan. 17).

Hintz represents business and industry endeavors and was first elected to the Board of Trustees in July 1994, and has been re-elected for succeeding terms. He served as vice chairman from 1998-2000, and was first elected chair in January 2001.

A 1959 graduate of Penn State, Hintz went on to earn an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1963. He began his career as an investment manager and analyst, working for several top firms in the securities field before founding Hintz, Holman, and Hecksher, Inc. in 1974. The firm has been cited in The Wall Street Journal and other publications as having an outstanding long-term investment record.

Hintz spearheaded the University's second major capital campaign, A Grand Destiny: The Penn State Campaign. He and his wife, Helen Skade Hintz, have provided a broad range of philanthropic support to Penn State, including a 1997 pledge of $5 million that, among other academic priorities, has helped fund the new Hintz Family Alumni Center on the University Park campus.

Baldwin, the first African American female judge elected to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, is a gubernatorial appointee to the Board of Trustees and was first elected vice chairman of the Board in 2001. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Penn State, and her J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law and holds an adjunct law faculty post at Duquesne University. She served as chair of Penn State's international alumni association from 1991-1993.

Baldwin was chosen as a Fulbright Scholar for the summer of 1994 and lectured at the University of Zimbabwe Law Faculty in Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence. While there, she assisted in the development of a trial advocacy program and interacted with the members of the Supreme Court on constitutional issues in the cases coming before them.

A seasoned attorney, Baldwin has been associated with several law firms and served as attorney-in-charge in the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Civil Litigation Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association and of the Pennsylvania Bar Association where she served on the Board of Governors and in the House of Delegates.

All other current officers of the Board of Trustees also were re-elected for another term: Paula R. Ammerman, associate secretary; Carolyn A. Dolbin, Joan L. Coble, and Diane J. Shaw, assistant secretaries; Gary C. Schultz, treasurer; and David F. Marshall, Deborah M. Meder, and Joseph J. Doncsecz, assistant treasurers.

In accordance with the bylaws of the University, President Graham B. Spanier serves as ex officio secretary of the Board.

The Board also elected members to serve on its executive committee, which is comprised of nine elected members plus the president of the University and the president of the Board as ex officio members. Trustees elected to the executive board are: Cynthia A. Baldwin, Charles C. Brosius, Mary G. Beahm, Steve A. Garban, David R. Jones, Joel N. Myers, L.J. Rowell, Jr., Carl T. Shaffer and William L. Weiss.

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Contacts:
Paula Ammerman (814) 865-2521 pra4@psu.edu
Tysen Kendig  (814) 865-7517tysen@psu.edu