Sarah Carlsen, current NH+C Board chair, is an executive coach at Carlsen Coaching and Consulting. With the right tools, efforts toward shared vision, healthy culture, self-understanding and responsibility, Sarah has helped the most challenged teams use their talents to create a greater good that lasts.

Appointed: January, 2019.  Currently serving her second full term.

Rick Estenson is a retired banker for First National Bank of Northfield. Before that he was a manager in the brokerage industry for Wells Fargo and Piper Jaffray. He graduated from Luther College with and accounting degree, and has lived in Northfield for 34 years.

Appointed: June, 2021. Currently serving his second full term.

Michael Hemesath is a professor of economics at Carleton College. He and his family have lived in Northfield for over 25 years.

Appointed: January, 2022. Currently serving his partial term.

Katie Lane is a Senior Account Manager at McKesson Medical-Surgical. She has over 10 years of experience in healthcare and medical supply distribution, focusing on technology and creating workflow efficiencies.  

Appointed: January, 2023. Currently serving her first full term.

Robert Morrison is the Director of Client Services and Operations at Rust Consulting Inc. and also a Community Faculty at Metropolitan State University where he teachs various courses in Management Information Systems. He also serves as the vice-chair for the Northfield Hospital Foundation board.

Appointed: January, 2022. Currently serving his first full term.

Crystal and her husband Justin have lived in the Northfield area for 17 years. She has worked in Human Resources for almost 10 years, mostly in a generalist role supporting organizations with as few as 20 employees to over 1,200. In her free time, she enjoys watching her daughter and son play sports.

Appointed: January, 2023. Currently serving her first full term.

Mayor Rhonda Pownell graduated from St. Olaf College with a degree in social work. She has served 16 years on the city council, her first 8 years as councilor at-large and the last 8 years as Mayor. She has lived in Northfield for 35 years.  She and her husband David have five beautiful children.

Appointed: January, 2022. Currently serving her first full term.

Jami Reister, MD, is a former family physician at Northfield Hospital + Clinics and currently serves as a city councilor and volunteer on a number of city boards and committees.

She and her husband, Randolph Reister, MD, have raised their three young adult children in the amazing Northfield community for the past eighteen years.

Appointed: January, 2022. Currently serving her first full term.

For a total of 35 years Fred Rogers served as Chief Financial Officer at three different institutions – Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University and Carleton College – before retiring in 2020.  In Northfield, he has served as a board member and President of the Northfield Economic Development Authority and is currently a board member and the past chair of the board of the Northfield Hospital + Clinics and a trustee of the First United Church of Christ.  He is a member of the Northfield Rotary Club.

Appointed: January, 2021. Currently serving his second full term.