Norman C. Bay
Attorney

• Previously chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission after serving as director of the Office of Enforcement.
• Before joining the FERC, was a law professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law.
• Spent more than a decade in the U.S. Department of Justice and was U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico.
• Earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth and law degree from Harvard.
• Serves as a public member of the committee.
• Term 3 of 3 expires August 2026.

Tricia Turley Brandenburg
Executive Associate Athletics Director/SWA at Army West Point

• Earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University
• Earned her Master of Science degree in Leadership from Northeastern University
• Ohio University – Senior Associate Director of Athletics
• University of Massachusetts – Associate Athletic Director for Compliance Services
• Northeastern University – Assistant AD for Compliance/Senior Woman Administrator/Associate AD for Compliance and Enrollment Services 
• Term 1 of 3 expires August 2024

Jody Conradt
Retired Head Women’s Basketball Coach; Special Assistant to Athletics at the University of Texas

• Retired from coaching in 2007 after a career spanning 40 years, including induction into both the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from Baylor.
• Term 3 of 3 expires August 2026.

Susan Cross-Lipnickey
Senior Associate AD for Compliance and Student-Athlete Resources/SWA at Xavier University

• Prior to Xavier, amassed decades of experience at Miami (Ohio), including serving as the institution’s Faculty Athletics Representative for 15 years. 
• Previously served on the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee and the Division I Leadership Council.
• Has been a practicing attorney since 1991. 
• A graduate of Slippery Rock with a master's degree from Purdue, a Ph.D. from Ohio State and J.D. from Northern Kentucky.
• Term 1 of 3 expires August 2025.

Rich Ensor
Former Commissioner of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

• Served as MAAC commissioner from 1988 to 2023.
• Past member of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee and past president of the Collegiate Commissioners Association.
• Serves on the boards of the Sports Lawyers Association, the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, WBCA, Philadelphia Sports Congress and NACDA’s IAAA ADs.
• Served multiple terms on the NCAA Division I Council and served as chair of the Women’s Basketball Oversight Committee.
• Term 2 of 3 expires August 2025.

Kendra Greene
North Carolina Central University - SWA/Senior Associate AD for Internal Operations

• Earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and a focus in pre-law from Michigan State University
• Earned her Master of Education in higher education administration with an emphasis in intercollegiate athletic administration from Oklahoma
• Florida A&M University – Associate Athletics Director for Compliance/SWA
• Alabama State University – Senior Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations
• Delaware State University – Associate Athletics Director for Compliance
• University of the District of Columbia – Associate Athletics Director for Academics/SWA 
• Term 1 of 3 expires August 2024

Jeremy Jordan
Dean of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University

• Also serves as senior advisor to the Chancellor for Sport and Higher Education.
• Prior to Syracuse, he served as the Faculty Athletics Representative & Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Temple, where he was also a professor of Sport and Recreation Management. 
• Previously held faculty positions at Miami, Mississippi State and Memphis, and served as the athletic director at La Sierra. 
• A graduate of La Sierra with a master’s from Utah and a Ph.D. from Ohio State. 
• Term 1 of 3 expires August 2025. 

Cassandra Kirk
Chief Magistrate Judge – Atlanta, GA

• Public member
• Earned her B.A. from Williams College
• Earned her J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law
• Juvenile Court Judge – Fulton County
• Term 1 of 3 expires August 2024

Jason Leonard
Executive Director of Athletics Compliance at Oklahoma; Vice Chair of the Committee on Infractions

• Responsible for the oversite of all daily athletics compliance operations and rules education efforts and serves as lead investigator on all rules violations investigations and reporting.
• Previously worked as associate general counsel in Oklahoma’s legal department.
• Earned undergraduate and law degrees from Oklahoma.
• Term 3 of 3 expires August 2026.

Stephen A. Madva
Attorney

• Retired chair and partner with the law firm Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads, LLP.
• Was also appointed head of the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Prison System by Philadelphia’s then-mayor.
• Served as chairman of the board of governors of St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
• Elected a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
• Earned undergraduate degree from Yale and law degree from Pennsylvania.
• Serves as a public member of the committee.
• Term 3 of 3 expires August 2025.

Vince Nicastro
Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the Big East Conference

• Nearly 30 years of administrative experience in college sports.
• Before joining the Big East, served as associate director of the Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for Study of Sports Law at Villanova.
• Before his academic post, served as Villanova director of athletics for 15 years.
• Earned degrees from Bloomsburg and Saint Joseph’s.
• Term 3 of 3 expires August 2025.

Kay Norton
President Emerita of Northern Colorado; Chair of the Committee on Infractions

• Served as founding chair of the NCAA Division I Presidential Forum, serving as the Big Sky Athletic Conference representative to the Forum and to its predecessor organization, the Presidential Advisory Group. 
• Shepherded Northern Colorado through its transition from Division II to Division I and membership in the Big Sky. 
• Served as a Northern Colorado board member and then as general counsel.
• Practiced law for 22 years, primarily in an inhouse corporate counsel role. 
• Graduate of Wellesley and of the Denver College of Law.
• Term 2 of 3 will expire August 2024.

Roderick Perry
Former Director of Athletics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

• Has extensive collegiate experience in strategic planning, budget management, compliance, public relations and donor cultivation.
• Before IUPUI, served in administrative posts at Wright State, Florida and Auburn.
• Earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from Auburn and doctorate in educational leadership from Dayton.
• Term 3 of 3 expires August 2026.

Jill Redmond
Deputy Commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference

• Prior to the Missouri Valley Conference, oversaw the A-10’s compliance and governance efforts as Senior Associate Commissioner.
• Previously worked at Richmond, Dartmouth and Benedictine (Illinois).
• Earned her undergraduate degree from DePaul and her master’s in business administration from Benedictine.
• Term 2 of 3 expires August 2026.

David RobertsSpecial Advisor to Southern California

Before joining Southern California, was a partner with Paul, Hastings, Janofsy & Walker in Los Angeles, and later was the founding and managing partner of Roberts, Raspe & Blanton LLP.

• Practiced law as a litigator in complex commercial cases in Southern California for more than 30 years.
• Earned undergraduate degree from UC Davis, where he was a Kodak Small College All-American football student-athlete, and law degree from Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law.
• Term 3 of 3 expires August 2024.

Mary Schutten
Executive Vice President and Provost at Central Michigan

• Previously served as dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at San Jose State.
• Served as associate dean and professor at Grand Valley State and held faculty roles at Western Michigan, Calvin and Dordt College.
• Earned her Ph.D. of physical education from Indiana, a Master of Arts from Long Beach State and a Bachelor of Arts from Calvin.
• Term 2 of 3 expires August 2025.

Jim Stapleton
President and CEO of B&R Consultants

• Attorney who has owned and operated a leading Governmental Affairs and Consulting firm since 1997.
• Former Senior Vice President of Business Affairs of the Detroit Tigers.
• Assisted in the formation of a group that purchased the Minnesota Vikings franchise in 2006.
• Served a 10-year term as a gubernatorially appointed Regent at Eastern Michigan.
• Served a 10-year term as Alumni Student-Athlete Representative on Michigan’s Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics.
• Serves as a public member of the committee. Term 1 of 3 expires August 2025.