Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees Meeting Calendar - 2009 (PDF)
Board of Trustees Meeting Calendar - 2010 (PDF)
J. Robert Ashcroft
Subdistrict 1
First Elected to Board of Trustees: 1982
Occupation: Financial Planner
Education: Bachelor of Business Administration -Graduate work
Evangel University, Springfield, MO
Community:
- Gladstone City Council, 14 years
- City of Gladstone, Past Mayor - 3 terms
- Local government retirement system, since 1982
- Rotary International, since 1975
- Past President
- Past District Governor
- Spelman Medical Foundation, since 2001
David L. Disney
Subdistrict 2,
MCC Board President
First Elected to Board of Trustees: 2000
Occupation: Senior Vice President, J.E. Dunn Construction Company
Education: BS Construction Science, Kansas State University
Community:
- MCC Board of Trustees since 2000
- Executive Board, Boy Scouts of America, Heart of America Council
- Past Board Member, MCC Foundation
- Project Lead the Way Industry Advisory Council
- Past President, The Children's Museum of Kansas City
- Past Board Member, Experiencia
- Past President, Westport House
Richard Charles Tolbert
Subdistrict 3
First Elected to Board of Trustees: 2004
Occupation: Businessman and Minister
Education: Bachelor and Master degrees from Yale University
Community:
- The Minority Caucus of Freedom Inc.
- The Leon Jordan Legacy
- The New Politics Uprising
- The Organized Opposition
- The All Denominational New Church
Jeffrey A. Grubb
Subdistrict 4
MCC Board Vice President
First Elected to Board of Trustees: 1994
Occupation: Attorney
Education: BS Marketing/Management: Northwest Missouri State University
Jurist Doctorate: University of Missouri-Kansas City
Biographical Information: Married with two children.
Graduate of Truman High School in 1979. Son of
two educators: mother (Eleanor Grubb) was in the Fort Osage School District for 11 years as an elementary
counselor; and father (Merlyn Grubb) retired as principal of Spring Branch Elementary after 24 years
in the Independence School District. My wife (Lori Grubb) has a BS in Nursing from Avila College and
works as a Registered Nurse at North Kansas City Hospital. She is active in volunteer work with the Junior
Service League, the Independence School District, and Christ United Methodist Church.
Community:
- BSA Troop 228, Committee Chairman
- BSA Troop 228, Merit Badge Counselor
- Christ United Methodist Church, Early Childhood Advisory Board
- Christ United Methodist Church, past Chairman Board of Trustees
- Christ United Methodist Church, past member Administrative Board
Robert H. Martin
Subdistrict 5
Appointed to the Board of Trustees: 1976
First Elected to Board of Trustees: 1978
Occupation: Attorney
Education: Bachelor of Science, Southern Illinois University
Jurist Doctorate, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Biographical Information: Born in Howard County, Missouri
Veteran, USAF
Married. Father of two sons, Chris R. Martin and Coleman O. Martin, MD
Community:
- Served in the Missouri House of Representatives 1969-1972
- Lee's Summit Rotary, Paul Harris Fellow
- Lee's Summit Chamber of Commerce
- Charter member of the McComas Airport Board
- United States Federal Bar -State of Missouri
- Missouri Bar Association
- Metropolitan Bar Association
- Eastern Jackson County Bar Association
- Bishop's Warden, St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Mariann Tow
Subdistrict 6
Appointed to Board of Trustees: April 2008
Occupation: Teacher, retired
Education: Bachelor of Science, Education, Drake University
Master of Science, English, New York University at Albany
Community:
- Youth Friends, Burke Elementary School classroom reading tutor and mentor
- Southern Communities Coalition, past chairman
- Missouri Federated Women's Clubs, club president
- John Knox Presbyterian, session elder
- Citizen's Association Board, 6th District
- Women's Public Service Network
- Kansas City Planning and Zoning Commission, commissioner
- Missouri Ethics Commission, commissioner
- Focus Kansas City Task Force 1990
- Jackson County Redistricting Commission
- Hickman Mills School District Task Force to develop a gifted and talent program
- Hickman Mills School District Building Use Task Force
- Greater Kansas City Pan-Hellenic Scholarship Chairman