Seven new members elected to Board of Trustees

Press Release:

Fairfield University announced the election of seven new trustees to its Board of Trustees, including six graduates and four members who have served previous terms on the board.

First-time board members are Sheila Kearney Davidson, senior vice president and general counsel for New York Life Insurance Company, class of 1983; Clinton A. Lewis, Jr., vice president, sales, Pfizer, Inc., class of 1988; and Thomas P. Loughlin, managing director, Jefferson Wells International, class of 1980.

Sheila Kearney Davidson is a senior vice president and general counsel of New York Life Insurance Company where she serves on the Executive Management Committee, which directs the policies and procedures for the company.

A 1983 graduate of Fairfield with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics, awarded cum laude, she earned her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from George Washington University in 1986. She was with the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., before joining New York Life in 1991 as an associate counsel in the Office of the General Counsel. After a steady rise in the company, Davidson assumed responsibility for the Corporate Compliance Department in 1997 and was selected senior vice president in 1998. In May of 2000, she was appointed General Counsel.

A native of Paterson, N.J., Davidson resides in New York City with her husband, Anthony, and their two sons.

Clinton A. Lewis Jr., began his career with Pfizer, Inc., in 1988 as a sales representative, following his graduation from Fairfield University with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. He rose through the ranks, holding several managerial positions, including regional manager of the New England Region for Pratt. Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Pfizer; and general manager of Pfizer Caribbean.

While with Pfizer, he earned an M.B. A. in marketing at Fairleigh Dickenson University, awarded in 1993. Earlier this year, he was named vice president of sales with Pfizer, Inc.

Mr. Lewis serves on the board of directors of the New York affiliate of INROADS, an organization that encourages talented minority youth to become leaders in the corporate world and in their communities. He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. and a member of Fairfield University’s Multicultural Scholarship Committee. A native of Queens, N.Y., Lewis and his wife, Teresa, reside in Baldwin, N.Y., with their son.

Thomas P. Loughlin, who grew up in Stratford, Conn., earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Fairfield University in 1980 and is a CPA, licensed in both Washington, D.C. and Connecticut. He began his career with KPMG LLP in 1979, rising to the positions of Director of Strategic Investments, chief risk officer, and finally chief financial and administrative officer and partner. When KPMG became Bearing Point, Inc. in 1999, Loughlin was named managing director.

Last year Loughlin was recruited by Jefferson Wells International in McLean, Va., for the position of managing director and assigned to turn around an underperforming business unit. Within five months, he successfully transformed the unit into one of the top five U.S. practices in gross margin.

Nominated by the U.S. Secretary of Education to chair the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board in 1996, Loughlin directed the authorization of 24 public charter schools, operating on 27 campuses, and serving 9,000 students, the largest such initiative in the United States. He established nationally renowned approval and accountability protocols and testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress and Mayoral and City Council hearings. He also serves as treasurer of the Juan Carlos Rincones Dance Theatre.

From 1990 to 1996 he was a board member of the Washington Project for the Arts. He and his wife, Kathi, live in Washington, D.C., with their two daughters.

Returning to the board are E. Gerald Corrigan ’63, managing director at Goldman, Sachs ‘ Co. and former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Diane Oakley ’75, former vice president of TIAA-CREF; Joseph A. DiMenna ’80, managing director of Zweig-DiMenna Associates LLC in New York; and Francis (Fay) T. Vincent, Jr., former commissioner of Major League Baseball.