Thursday, March 29, 2012

2012 Champion Award to be Awarded to P. Kelly Tompkins

The Champion Award recognizes and honors individuals for their long-standing commitment and dedication to the mission and vision of the Alzheimer’s Association. 

This year we honor P. Kelly Tompkins whose exemplary fundraising skills have helped raise the level of corporate support for the Association for the last several years, while also serving to increase awareness of both Alzheimer’s disease and the services of the Alzheimer’s Association.   

A former board member of the Cleveland Area Chapter, he currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Magnificat High School.  He also serves on the Great Lakes Science Center Board.  In 2005-2006, Mr. Tompkins served as the 95th president of the Cleveland Bar Association and is a past Chair of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Visiting Committee. 

Professionally, Kelly Tompkins is Executive Vice President – Legal, Government Affairs and Sustainability & Chief Legal Officer at Cliffs Natural Resources, Inc., an international mining and natural resources company with operations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Brazil.  He has responsibility for global legal, labor and public affairs, Cliffs’ ongoing relationships with all U.S. and international government and regulatory bodies and the execution and reporting of the company’s increasingly critical sustainable development practices. 

He joined Cliffs in May 2010, having previously been executive vice president and chief financial officer of RPM International, a NYSE-listed, global specialty chemical company. 

Mr. Tompkins received his B.S. degree from Mercyhurst College and his J.D. degree from Cleveland –Marshall College of Law in 1981.  He and his wife, Cathy live in Westlake. 

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