Linda Hoeschler

Linda L. Hoeschler advises non-profit organizations on program design and organizational positioning, and counsels artists on business and career issues. Her business and non-profit management career centered on the turnaround and building of organizations. She began serving as a Trustee for the Foundation in 1998. She has served as a Director since 2008. From May, 1991 through July, 2003, she was executive director of the St. Paul-based American Composers Forum, which she led from its position as a regional arts group to become the largest composer service organization in the United States. Prior to joining the Forum, Hoeschler worked in the corporate sector, including roles as vice president of the Dayton Hudson (now Target) Corporation, group vice president of National Computer Systems, and president of Landmark Investors, Ltd. From 1976 to 1977 she directed the Minnesota Governor’s Commission on the Arts, and for the seven previous years she worked as writer, editor and arts critic for several Twin Cities newspapers and magazines. Hoeschler has been on several business and charitable boards over the years. She currently serves as trustee for the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, St. John’s University, Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, and Delegation for Friendship Among Women (Past President). She also is on the University of St. Thomas College of Liberal Arts Advisory Board. She is a past member of the Minnesota Governor’s Commission on Education (committee chair), North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (vice chair), and the National Education Policy Information Center. Prior board memberships include the Minnesota Women’s Economic Roundtable (president), Lark String Quartet (president), American Council for the Arts (treasurer), Jerome Foundation (treasurer), Milkweed Editions (chair), Chamber Music America, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ordway Music Theatre, Minnesota Dance Theater, VocalEssence, Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, Landmark Center, Dodge Nature Center, Madison Council of the Library of Congress, United Theological Seminary and University of St. Thomas (executive committee). She was also a company board member of Personnel Decisions Research, Inc. and the Gift Certificate Company. Hoeschler is an honors graduate of Barnard College, and a Herbert Lehman Fellow at the New School University where she received her M.A. with highest honors. She was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree by St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota in May, 2003, and by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul in July, 2003.