Martha is a real estate Broker, licensed since 1991. She has volunteered in public schools for years, been on Boards for MADD, a public school board, church council, a school Foundation and serves on the Board of the MN Association of Realtors. She has lived in Minnesota most of her life. She believes in service and helping your fellow neighbor and family.

‘I enjoyed serving the local public schools in many capacities for 17 years, and now volunteer in Mpls. schools. I have great faith in our youth and look forward to how they better our world.’

John Nuechterlein has been a member of St. Mark’s for 20 years. He served on the Church Council (Vestry) for three terms over that time, and the Stewardship Committee for four years.

He also co-chaired the Sesquicentennial Planning Committee in 2008, an effort that published significant oral histories of congregation members and commissioned the hymn Open Our Lips, O God, To Sing for the Anniversary Service of Celebration.

John has been an integral part of the Music Ministry for his entire 20-year history at the church. He served on the Organ Restoration Committee in 2012 and has been the lead volunteer for the Music Series for over 15 years. He has also been a member of the Cathedral Choir since 1998.

John recently retired as President/CEO of the American Composers Forum based in St. Paul, and lives in St. Louis Park with his husband, Dan.

Molly was introduced to St. Mark’s through her partner Julie Neal, a long-time St. Mark’s member and lifelong Episcopalian. They were married in 2014 and have been together for over 24 years.

She was born and raised in North St. Paul and has always lived in the Twin Cities area. After graduating from St. Mary’s University in Winona, she began her professional career in customer service at US West and West Publishing. Earning a Masters in Telecommunications took her career path in a new direction leading to consulting roles at GE IT Solutions and Maryville Technologies. However, ultimately, she found her niche spending more than 20 years in enterprise sales for BMC Software, CA Technologies and finally as an Enterprise Account Executive for ServiceNow.

She has served as a board member for the Mixed Blood Theater since 2008.

A lifelong Episcopalian, Barbara first joined St. Mark’s in 1971. She sang in the choir for 23 years and also served on the Wells Board for 3 years until leaving Minneapolis for Dallas, where she lived for 24 years until returning to Minneapolis in February 2018. While in Minneapolis, she worked for 18 years for First Bank System, primarily in retail lending, but ending her career there in the FBS Foundation with responsibility for arts giving. She did some contract work for both the Bush Foundation and the Cowles Media Foundation before leaving Minneapolis. While in Texas, she spent 15 years in the Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center as a Clinical Coordinator. Her interactions with cancer patients and the 40+ physicians were a high point of her career there.

Rev. Lane Hensley joined the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mark in November 2023 as Interim Dean. He graduated from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in 2001 and served as Rector at various churches. During a sabbatical in 2018, he answered the call to spend the remainder of his active ministry in transitional ministry as a trained and intentional Interim Rector. He became a voting member of the Wells Foundation Board upon his appointment.

Jim Arnold joined St. Mark’s in 2019 and has served in various capacities, including working in the Welcome Center, Wednesday pilgrimages, and Roundtable dinners.  A lifelong Minnesotan, he was a management professor in the MBA program at the University of St. Thomas for 19 years. During his career, Jim owned two businesses and worked in both large and small corporations. He holds a doctorate in leadership and now devotes his time to volunteering with numerous non-profit organizations, including board positions with the International Business Ethics Case Competition and Theatre in the Round. 

Harriet McCleary retired from St. Olaf College in May of 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Voice, Emerita. She still teaches voice at her home studio. She is a member of the Cathedral Choir, serves as vocal coach to the Choristers, and volunteers for Sunday Night Supper. Dr. McCleary has been a member of St. Mark’s since 1998.

Dave is a semi-retired marketing and advertising professional, who has served in the U.S. Navy Reserve and worked with Dayton Hudson Corporation and Medtronic.

Dave and wife Mary Nickel, a Nurse Practitioner who specializes in Ob-Gyn health care, are long-time members of St. Mark’s. They have two daughters, two grandchildren and two “bonus” grandkids.

Dave is a graduate of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa with a degree in Music Education. He has sung in many church choirs, including St. Mark’s Cathedral Choir and the Summer Singers. He has held board positions with the Minnesota Dachshund Club, as president, and the Summer Singers, and has been a volunteer with the Minnesota Reading Corps. Dave and Mary have bred and finished championships on more than 20 of their long-haired dachshunds.

John retired from university teaching in 2019 and moved to Minneapolis with his wife, Mary, to be closer to family. They have been members of St. Mark’s since 2021. John’s latent professional interests include British history and the evolution of social welfare institutions in the US. Confirmed in the Church of England, he has belonged to Episcopal, Methodist, and Christian Reformed congregations while living in various Midwestern locales.

Since arriving in the Twin Cities, he has enjoyed volunteer tutoring, outdoor activities, and spectator sports, and looks forward to the day when the Twins and the Loons sit atop their respective leagues.

Linda is a consultant, educator and business leader. She and her husband own Leadership Vision Consulting based in Minneapolis. Linda’s doctorate is in Intercultural Studies, and her specific area of study was the adaptive capacities of multi-national leaders within Europe. Her dissertation focused on how successful leaders navigate change within in a dynamic of multiple cultures, beliefs, ethnicities, ages and languages.

As a consultant, Linda brings decades of experience working with people, teams and organizations all over the world. Her unique approach is rooted in drawing out individual identity through Strengths, team building and talent development. Linda has a heart for stirring God’s love in the world through connection, excellence and generosity.

Linda Schubring and her husband Brian made St. Marks their church home after visiting the Cathedral during “Doors Open Minneapolis” in May of 2019.

Bill was a long-time parishioner at St.Mark’s. A former President and Treasurer of the Wells Foundation, Bill had an extensive background in the Twin Cities non-profit community as well as holding administrative positions in the for-profit sector. Bill died in 2021.

Bob was born in Boston in 1931, and after spending four years at an Episcopalian school, he attended Princeton University followed by Columbia University Medical School. He came to Minnesota after a stint as a U.S. Army doctor.

He and his wife Kathie had four children. Kathie was a dancer, and she and Bob were major philanthropists and patrons of the arts in the Twin Cities area. They endowed the restoration of the Goodale Theatre at the Cowles Center, the former Shubert Theater.

Bob said that the Wells Board “offers involvement in social problems or ills which are beyond the help of just medical aid.” He found operating through the Board a rewarding experience. Kathie was very involved with the social service grantees and supported many of them personally.

Bob died in 2014, and Kathie died in 2020.