Marshall University Foundation

McRae Pennington
Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

McRae Pennington is the director of corporate and foundation relations for the Marshall University Foundation Inc. Her primary goal is to facilitate relationships between the foundation and corporate donors.

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 in Louisville, and has worked as a financial advisor for companies in Maryland and Kentucky.

McRae is a graduate of Raceland-Worthington High School in Raceland, Ky.; a 1997 graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., with a bachelor of arts degree in applied music; and a 2001 graduate of the University of Louisville’s Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.