Paul LeClerc, president and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library, Kathy Magliato ’85, one of the few female cardiothoracic surgeons in the world, and Kelly M. Williams ’86, a global financial executive, have joined the College's Board of Trustees.
LeClerc has been with the New York Public Library since 1993. He was a professor of French at Union from 1966 through 1979 and chair of Modern Languages from 1971 through 1977. From 1988 to 1993, he was president of Hunter College in New York City. Last February, he received Union’s inaugural John Bigelow Medal, which recognizes friends of the College who have contributed to the advancement of humanity. He received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Union in 1997.
LeClerc is a scholar of 18th-century French literature and the author or co-editor of five volumes on writers of the French Enlightenment. He is a trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation, and a director of the National Book Foundation and the American Academy in Rome.
Magliato, the director of Women’s Cardiac Services at Saint John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif., is at the forefront of a national campaign to promote awareness of heart disease in women. She is the former head of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center artificial heart program. At Union, Magliato earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude in chemistry and biology. She comes from a family of Union graduates, including her father, Nicholas Magliato, Sr. ’58, late uncle Frank J. Magliato '56 and sister Nancy (Magliato) Jensen '81.
Williams is the managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston’s Asset Management Division, which includes part of the Union endowment and more than $8 billion of U.S. investments in roughly 450 private equity funds. Williams earned a law degree from New York University in 1989 and spent her early career in global finance law at Prudential. She was inducted into the New York City YWCA’s Academy of Women Leaders in 2007. At Union, she earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in political science and mathematics.
The chairman of the board is Frank L. Messa ’73 of Saratoga Springs. Messa retired in 2005 as senior vice president for International Strategies of Ayco Co., a Saratoga Springs-based financial services and planning firm that was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2003.