MIDDLETOWN – Mater Dei Prep elected Kathryn A. McLaughlin as the new chair of its board of trustees. McLaughlin is a 1972 graduate of Mater Dei and one of the founding trustees of Mater Dei Prep during its successful 2015 transition to an independent Catholic school. She is also a member of its hall of fame and was honored at the school’s Seraph Strong Gala in February.
McLaughlin is a practicing attorney and founding partner of her own law firm, where she has practiced law for the past 25 years. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and her juris doctor from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she served as an editor of the Cardozo Law Review. She has been a member of several Mater Dei Prep committees and formed the Women’s Leadership Initiative which has created programs and raised funds to support and promote young women in academics and athletics at Mater Dei Prep.
McLaughlin succeeds Simon Bosco as chair of the board. Bosco will remain on the board and as a member of its executive and finance committees.
“I cannot imagine a finer successor as chair than Kathy McLaughlin whose devotion to Mater Dei Prep has been manifest from its rebirth in 2015,” said Bosco.
“I am excited and energized by the opportunity that this role presents, and I am grateful to Dr. Bosco for his exceptional leadership, and his willingness to continue providing his expertise and guidance,” McLaughlin said.
“I am mindful of the challenges ahead, but I know of no other school so well poised to meet them. Mater Dei has a special place in my heart, as it does in so many others, and a unique position of faith-based education in the community. I look forward to working with the many people who comprise our community our faculty and staff, our students and their families, our alumni, the Parish of St. Mary’s, and the many others who participate in the Mater Dei Prep community, and who have given so generously of their time, talents, and resources.”
The article originally appeared in the July 9 – 15, 2020 print edition of The Two River Times.
