LFL Board of Directors

Lutherans For Life Board of Directors
	Diane Schroeder (LCMS) – President – and her husband, Carl, are parents of four children. Diane has been active in LFL since 1985 when she helped organize the DuPage County chapter in northern Illinois. She also participated in starting the Illinois federation of LFL and served as its president until her election as an at-large member of the national LFL board of directors in 2000. In 1991, she helped organize Word of Hope (formerly known as LFL Healing Hearts), the post-abortion outreach ministry of LFL. She is also on staff at CareNet Pregnancy Services of DuPage as Director of Communications. Diane and her family are members of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Elmhurst, Illinois.
	Rodney Rathmann (LCMS) – Vice-President – taught and served as administrator of Lutheran schools in Minnesota and Ohio before joining the editorial staff of Concordia Publishing House where he now serves as the senior editor of day and midweek school materials. Rodney was a member of the LCMS Sanctity of Life Task Force. He and his wife, Dawn, attend Christ Memorial Lutheran Church in suburban St. Louis. They are the parents of two grown sons and have one grandson.
	Stacey Harding (LCMS) – Secretary – is the owner of Harding Law. She earned a J.D. of Law from Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska. She and her husband, Randy, have three girls. Stacey has served on a congregational endowment fund committee, as the chair of the stewardship ministry action team, representative for the Lutheran Church Extension Fund, and planned giving director for a stewardship campaign.
	Richard A. Greiner (LCMS) – Treasurer – and his wife Laura, of Dansville, Michigan, have nine children. Richard is the owner and CEO of Greiner Construction Inc. He serves on many community associations and is actively involved at St. Matthew Lutheran Church. Greiner’s business experience dates back to the 1970s and includes construction, investment, real estate, and military service. Greiner has extensive international missionary travel experience.
	Diane Chadwick (LCMS) is active in her local church in the handbell choir, choir, and as assistant youth counselor, 7th and 8th grade Sunday school teacher, and a Lutheran Women’s Missionary League member. She is an administrative assistant in a local community bank. Active in LFL since 1988, Diane served as a resource secretary for LFL of Wisconsin for five years prior to being elected president. Diane chaired the host committees for the LFL Conventions in Milwaukee (1993) and Appleton (2002). Diane has three grown children, three foster children, and eleven grandchildren.
	Connie Davis (LCMS) – State Representative – and her husband, Terry, are the parents of three sons. She has served as president of LFL of Michigan since 1993 and serves as a federation representative on the national board. Connie helped organize and served as president of the Loving Arms chapter of LFL in Macomb County (1985-1994). Connie has served on the Michigan LFL board of directors as Christian growth chairman and chapter development chairman. She currently serves on the advisory board of Compassion Pregnancy Center, a CPC spearheaded by Loving Arms LFL. Connie speaks to Bible classes, church organizations, and parochial schools on pro-life issues. Her husband is the principal of St. Peter Lutheran School in Macomb and serves as Lutheran schools representative on the LFL of Michigan board of directors.
	John Eidsmoe (AFLC) – is a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and Alabama State Defense Force Colonel, Headquarters Judge Advocate, Deputy Chaplain and Training Officer. He is Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law Emeritus at the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama, where his students have twice given him the Outstanding Professor Award, and serves as Senior Staff Attorney at the Alabama Supreme Court. He is an ordained pastor with the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations and a constitutional attorney who has defended home schools, Christian schools, the right of students to study the Bible in public schools, and the right of public officials to display the Ten Commandments. He has authored 13 books and numerous audio and video lecture series. He holds six academic degrees in law, theology and political science, as well as graduating from the Air Command & Staff College and the Air War College. A Third Degree Black Belt with the American Taekwondo Foundation, Colonel Eidsmoe serves as Alabama Representative for the Gospel Martial Arts Union, is an avid horseman and skier. He and his wife Marlene have been married since 1970, have three children (David, Kirsten, and Justin) and live in rural Pike Road, Alabama.
	Rev. Everette E. Greene (LCMS) – was born March 6, 1961, in Baltimore, Maryland where he grew up. He attended Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, from 1979-1983, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He went on from there to attend Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1983-1985 at which time he left school to help his then ailing parents. After leaving school he had various jobs, most involving his occupational second love, driving. He drove everything from armored cars to armored tractor-trailers, regular tractor-trailers and finally motor coaches (charter buses). During this time his mother went on to her eternal rest in 1987. His father has had many strokes but is now doing well. In 1997 he met Rhonda Sherrice Smith and her daughter Paige. He and Rhonda were married on Christmas Eve that same year. In the summer of 2000 he returned to his studies, this time at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. After completing his classroom preparation, he was assigned to Ebenezer Lutheran Church-Greensboro, NC. There he served as Vicar for a year. He received his Master of Arts in Theology in 2003. On April 7, 2003, he received his call to be pastor at St. Philip Lutheran Church, Chattanooga, TN. He was ordained on June 29, 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was installed as pastor at St. Philip on July 6, 2003. On January 6, 2006 he became pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Jeanne D. Mackay (LCMS) – State Representative – is president of Lutherans For Life of Kansas, Inc. Since 1980 she has been involved in starting local LFL chapters wherever she and her family have lived: Perryville, Springfield and Kansas City, Missouri, and Johnson County, Kansas. In 1985 she founded Lutherans For Life of Missouri and served as president from 1985-1994. In 1996 she worked alongside Dr. Jean Garton and Jean Heise in organizing the Women of Hope Conference held in Kansas City. Before her work with LFL started, and before she was married, she worked as a parish worker in two churches, and worked with Lutheran Youth Encounter for seven years as team scheduler, music director, and music performer. Jeanne has a parish work diploma from the Lutheran Bible Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Travel and Tourism from Maple Woods Community College, Kansas City, Missouri. She continues to take college courses in business and journalism. She is married to Jay Mackay. They live in Lenexa, Kansas, and have six children and eight grandchildren.
	Dr. Samuel S. Murray (LCMS) – was born and raised in California, studied art and biochemistry at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, worked in a factory for six months and then traveled in Europe for six months. Dr. Murray attended graduate school, followed by medical school, at the University of Minnesota. Upon completion of his internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, he accepted a faculty position at UCLA and is now a Professor of Medicine there while also working at the VA and County hospitals associated with UCLA. Dr. Murray and his wife, Elsa, have two daughters. Dr. Murray conducts research on bone growth factors and is the chairman of the VA committee (for Los Angeles) charged with protecting human research subjects. He has a special interest in reproductive technology and a life-long interest in the zoology of microscopic animals as well as “the origin of life.”
	Eric Otten (LCMS) – is a Naval Aviator stationed in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School where he earned an MBA in financial management. A certified financial manager (CFM), Eric has experience in finance and budgeting as well as his military experience in aviation operations, aviation safety, and search and rescue. He serves as Vice-President of Texas Lutherans for Life. He and his wife Kim have two sons.
	Beth Schaible (CLBA) – has been involved with Lutherans For Life since 1981. She served as program coordinator for the Greater Grand Forks (ND) LFL in 1984 and as president of the Fargo Moorhead chapter of Lutherans For Life (1986-1998; 2000-2002). While president, Beth coordinated and emceed their annual banquet. In 1995, she was elected to serve on the board of directors of LFL of North Dakota and served as secretary from 1996-2006. She was elected to the National Lutherans For Life Board of Directors in 2004. Beth is a pediatric occupational therapist and works in an early intervention program with children from birth to age three. From 1987-2004, she served as a board member of Life Coalition in Fargo. Beth and her husband, Cal, have two children. They reside in Fargo, North Dakota.