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New board members
In 2020, Holy Cross College accepted four new members to the Board of Trustees. Welcome to: Dr. Pia de Soleni, Thomas Lange, Thomas Lyons,III, and Irene McPhail
Pia de Solenni
Dr. Pia de Solenni is an internationally recognized Catholic theologian and speaker from California, presenting at Holy Cross College in 2019 about “Women in the Body of Christ.” She earned a Ph. D. in sacred theology summa cum laude from the Pontifi cal University of the Holy Cross, Rome. In addition to the doctorate, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts-Great Books from Thomas Aquinas College, California; a Sacred Theology Baccalaureate from the Pontifi cal University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome; and a Sacred Theology Licentiate from Holy Cross, Rome.
Previously, she worked as the chancellor of the Diocese of Orange serving as the theological consultant to the Offi ce of the Bishop of Orange County located at Christ Cathedral. Dr. de Solenni has served on the Family Research Council and is also a consultant member of the Pontifi cal Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
She is an expert in issues relating to women’s health, life issues, the new feminism, Catholicism, and culture. Her work has appeared in various publications including “The Wall Street Journal Europe,” “The Washington Post,” “National Catholic Reporter,” “Our Sunday Visitor,” and “National Review Online.” She has participated in many radio and television talk shows on various topics including appearances on MSNBC, “Hardball with Chris Matthews”, “The O’Reilly Factor”, CNN, and ABCNews. Dr. de Solenni has been quoted in newspapers nationwide, including The New York Times, The Washington Times, and The Associated Press.
Thomas Lange
Tom Lange’s career in fi nancial advisory services, investment banking, law and public accounting spanned almost forty years. From 1996 through 2020, he was a founding member of Baird’s Distribution team within its Global Industrial Investment Banking Group. Prior to joining Baird, he practiced law for ten years and was a partner in the securities, mergers, and acquisitions practice of the law fi rm of Foley & Lardner. He began his career in the Chicago offi ce of Ernst & Whinney. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame.
From 1999 to 2019, Tom was a member of the Notre Dame Law School Advisory Council. He also served as Chair of the School Advisory Board for his parish school in Tampa, and earlier as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee. He is a member (inactive) of the State Bar of Florida.
He and his wife Tami Tavis Lange, a Notre Dame graduate, have three adult children, also Notre Dame graduates, and currently four grandchildren.
Thomas Lyons,III
Thomas Lyons, III, is a Corporate Associate Attorney with a concentration in US Securities Law and Financial Regulation, representing high profi le cases and advising clients with Barnes & Thornburg. He graduated from Holy Cross College in 2014, with a bachelor’s degree in business.
Upon graduation from Holy Cross College, he completed his Juris Doctor in the fi eld of banking, corporate, fi nance, and securities law at Valparaiso University School of Law and a Legum Magister in the fi eld of banking, corporate, fi nance, and securities law from Georgetown University Law Center.
He is active in the community involved with various organizations and serves on the Board of Directors for Options Charter Schools in Carmel, Indiana. Currently, he is on The Indiana Leadership Forum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofi t educational organization dedicated to preparing Indiana’s most talented free enterprise, limited governmentminded community and business leaders for greater civic involvement, public service and leadership roles throughout the state of Indiana. In fall of 2019, he joined the Indy Chamber Ambassadors, a group of volunteer leaders that engage with Indy Chamber members through volunteering at events and attending ribbon cuttings and grand openings. For over two years, he has served as a member of The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called the Federalist Society, an organization of conservatives and libertarians that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution. He is also a member of the Indiana State Bar Association and Indianapolis Bar Association.
Irene McPhail
Irene McPhail is a founder and senior principal at Leadership Alliance International, Inc. (LAI), a group that partners with organizations to achieve tangible improvements in business results through their Executive and Leadership Development and Organizational Eff ectiveness Consulting. She brings to her consulting practice a unique blend of line and executive management experience, as well as signifi cant executive coaching and management consultation expertise. She served for nearly twenty-fi ve years as an operations and corporate executive in the media and telecommunications industries.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications Arts from the New York Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado in Denver.
