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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
Greenup County, Ky., native joins Marshall Foundation
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – McRae Pennington, a Greenup County, Ky., native, has “returned home” to accept a recently created position with the Marshall University Foundation, Inc.
Pennington is the new Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Marshall. She started her new job, in which she works to facilitate relationships between the Foundation and corporate donors, on March 7.
“As a young professional there weren’t many opportunities in this area, but I never closed the door to coming back home,” Pennington said. “This work feels more important than the traditional corporate job. The university’s such a large part of the community.”
Before coming to Marshall, Pennington worked in Dayton, Ohio, as a regional sales executive with LexisNexis. A licensed attorney in Kentucky, she worked for the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office from March 2000 through August 2001, and later was a financial advisor for companies in Maryland and Kentucky.
“It is the Foundation’s intent to be more active in building corporate partnerships for Marshall,” Glen Kerkian, executive director of the Foundation, said. “McRae’s recent position with LexisNexis and experience with several national companies gives her a good grounding in understanding how foundations operate.”
Pennington is a 1993 graduate of Raceland-Worthington High School in Raceland, Ky., a 1997 graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., with a B.A. in Applied Music, and a 2001 graduate of the University of Louisville’s Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.
“I initially thought I would be more in arts administration, but I ended up in the corporate world,” Pennington said. “I have done fund raising in the volunteer world.”
Pennington said she sang in the annual SCORES competition at Marshall while she was a student at Raceland, and also sang in performances with the Huntington Outdoor Theatre and the Musical Arts Guild in Huntington.