The Lutheran Education Association of Houston is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors selected from Lutheran churches in the Houston area. The Board of Directors uses a ‘policy-based’ governance model which gives guidance to the executive director to carry out the mission and vision of the Lutheran Education Association of Houston.
Each campus is led by a head of school, each of whom is accountable to the LEAH Schools executive director.
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Kurt Rosenhagen
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Michael HergenraderMichael Hergenrader has been involved in the LEAH school system since 1997 and has been a board member since 2013. Michael and his wife Christina (a former teacher at Lutheran South Academy) currently live in Katy, Texas with their four children, Catie, Sam, Elisabeth and Nate. After graduating from University of Nebraska, Michael went on to receive his MBA from the University of Texas. Michael is a partner at AliTek consulting, a technology solutions firm in Houston. The Hergenraders attend Memorial Katy Lutheran Church. |
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Jonté Greer
After college, he worked for Air Products and Chemicals for 17 years before moving to Houston in 2001, where he escalated his volunteer and service work, eventually chairing the company’s Ethnically Diverse Gulf Employee (EDGE) resource group. EDGE received corporate‐ wide service and diversity awards four consecutive years, ultimately culminating with the external recognition of the Texas Diversity Council’s 2013 Corporate Commitment Award. He and his wife Tomika have been married for over 17 years. They live in Pearland and attend Epiphany Lutheran Church where they actively support various ministries together with their two daughters, both of whom attend Lutheran South Academy. He has been a member of Epiphany’s Leadership Council since 2010, serving as President from 2012 to 2017. He along with his family are heavily involved with serving in various ministries. |
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Al Hoppe
He has been married for over 45 years to his wife, Marcia. They have two children (Christopher Hoppe, DDS and Michelle Stone, CPA) and nine grandchildren, two of whom (Shea and Sam) go to Westlake Preparatory Lutheran Academy. |
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Jeanette Holt
Her work experience includes banking, personnel placement industry, and executive assistant to now Commercial Real Estate (since 2001). As a real estate broker, she owns J Holt Properties, LLC, located at the Gulf Frwy and Sam Houston Pkwy South. Jeanette specializes in commercial and investment real estate and earned the coveted CCIM designation in 2010. |
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Elizabeth Richmond KillingerSecretary/Treasurer Elizabeth joined the LEAH Board of Directors because of her passion for Christian education and the vital impact it has made in her children’s lives and the role it can play in spreading the love of Jesus and raising up the next generation of leaders. Elizabeth has over 25 years of domestic and international experience in the energy and services industries. She spent the first decade of her career in oilfield services, software development and management consulting working at a Big 4 Firm in the 90s. She left consulting in 2002 and spent the second decade of her career at Reliant and NRG running all areas of customer operations for residential, small commercial and large commercial customers in competitive electricity markets in Texas and the Northeast United States. In 2012, Elizabeth was promoted to president of Reliant. She currently works at NRG as a Section 16 Officer and Executive Vice President, which includes serving as President of NRG Retail and Reliant. In her role, Elizabeth is responsible for directing all aspects of the retail division, a $5 billion competitive energy company which includes the largest national competitive electricity business in the country and the leading portable solar and power business in the U.S.
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Jae K. MooreJae K. Moore has been a member of Memorial Lutheran – Katy church for over 60 years and has served as an elder and on the church council for many years. Jae resides in the Katy area with wife of 43 years, Beverly. They have three children – Jason, Jessica, and Jaemie – who are 4th generation Katy‐ites and graduates of Katy High School. Jae has seven beautiful grandchildren living in the Houston & Dallas areas. Jae is the founder and CEO of Moore Control Systems, Inc. located in Katy, TX and Baytown, TX – providing gas processing, engineering, and construction for the oil and gas midstream industry for 37 years. He holds his electrical contracting license in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Jae currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Gas Processing Suppliers Association and the West Chambers County Chamber of Commerce. |
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Rev. Daniel W. SchepmannPastor Dan Schepmann was born in St. Louis, Missouri and then moved to Houston, where he spent much of his childhood. He is the son of two retired Lutheran educators and has two brothers. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Concordia Lutheran College in Austin; attended Concordia Seminary in St. Louis; and served his vicarage (internship) at Lakeside Lutheran Church in Venice, Florida. He received his Masters of Divinity degree in 1996 from Concordia Seminary He received his first call to serve as associate pastor at Christ Lutheran Church and School in Little Rock, Arkansas and faithfully served that congregation until December 2003. He then moved to Peachtree, Georgia, to serve as senior pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School. In March 2013 he moved to Houston for his current position as senior pastor at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. He and his wife Karisa have been married for 25 years and have three children: Thomas (19), Caroline (14), and Anna (11). Pastor Schepmann has served on various committees and boards within the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod throughout his pastoral career dealing particularly with pastoral leadership, congregational revitalization and growth, district leadership, and has been certified as a Birkman consultant. He has great joy and blessing in serving in his various roles as husband, father, pastor, and friend and by God’s grace, is living on mission of “helping more people live life with Jesus every day. |
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Randy H. Einem
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