Skip to main content

Are you a part of LCAA? #join-now

Leaders at Lunch

Past Honorees

2025 Leaders at Lunch Honoree with our LC Board Members

(Pictured from L-R: Nicole Deary, Lutricia Eberly, George M. Book, Jr, Carley Miller, Major General Hill, Preeti Ghosh, Ashley Kurtz, Jay Cattron, John Friend, and Kellan Lowe)

At each Leaders at Lunch program, we look to recognize the accomplishments of local leaders throughout Cumberland County. The following leaders have been honored over the years for their personification of leadership, their ability to overcome obstacles, innovation in their field, or how they have shown courage through difficult situations.

  • 2025

    Major General David C. Hill, 53rd Commandant of the U.S. Army War College

  • 2024

    Danielle M. Conway, Dean and Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law

  • 2023

    Sharina Johnson, CEO & Co-Founder of Arcana Recovery

  • 2022

    Spring Program: Honoring the Carlisle Family YMCA Capital Campaign Leaders
    Honorees: Hubert X. Gilroy, Martson Law Offices; Ray ‘Buz’ Wolfe, Jr, Wolfe & Company Realtors; and Marcia Drozdowski, Carlisle Family YMCA

    Fall Program: Honoring the UPMC Street Feet Program
    Denise Ackroyd, RN, BSN, WTA-C, Laura Martz, RN, BSN, MBA, and Shawna Souder, MSN, RN, CWOCN, CFCN

  • 2021

    Spring Program: Resilience in Leadership
    Honorees: Ashleigh Goss, Market Cross Pub; Jim Rowe, Rising Sun Consultants; Bert & Shelly Wendeln, Spatacular Escapes

    Fall Program: Honoring the Hampden Township Veterans' Recognition Committee
    Honorees: Bryan Anthony, David Getz, Mark Guida, and Georgeann Maguire

  • 2020

    Spring Program: Cumberland County Treatment & Opioid Courts
    Honorees: District Attorney Skip Ebert, Judge Al Masland, and Judge Jessica Brewbaker

    Fall Program: Community Heroes: Leading Through Crisis
    Honorees: Ryan Heishman, Allen Distribution; Scott Karns, Karns Quality Foods; Beth Kempf, Community CARES

  • 2019

    Spring Program Honoree: Major General John Kem, U.S. Army War College

    Fall Program: 30th Anniversary Celebration

  • 2018

    Spring Program Honoree: Margee Ensign, Dickinson College

    Fall Program Honoree: Laurie Carter, Shippensburg University

  • 2017

    Spring Program Honoree: Dan Sunderland, Sun Motor Cars Inc.

    Fall Program Honoree: Dr. Dilip Abayasekara, Dr. Dilip LLC

  • 2016

    Spring Program Honoree:Norm J. Jones, Harvard University

    Fall Program Honoree:Tracey C. Jones, Tremendous Leadership

  • 2015

    Spring Program Honoree:Marcia Dale Weary, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet

    Fall Program Honoree: The Honorable Patricia H. Vance, Pennsylvania Senate

  • 2014

    Spring & Fall Program: 25th Anniversary Celebration

  • 2013

    Spring Program Honoree: Dennis Marion, Deputy Secretary, PA Office of Mental Health & Substance Abuse

    Fall Program Honoree: Ronald Leitzel, Owner & CEO of Mountz Jewelers

  • 2012

    Spring Program Honoree: Mark Butler, President & CEO, Ollie’s Bargain Outlet

    Fall Program Honoree: Bob Marquette, President & CEO, Members 1st Federal Credit Union

  • 2011

    Spring Program Honoree: Bill Miller, Co-Founder & Co-Owner of Carlisle Events

    Fall Program Honoree: Sister Romaine Niemeyer, SCC, President & CEO of Holy Spirit Health System

  • 2010

    Spring Program Honoree: William Durden, President of Dickinson College

    Fall Program Honoree: Taylor Andrews, Chief Public Defender Cumberland County

  • 2009

    Spring Program: Entrepreneurialism in a Changing Economy
    Honorees: Omar Shute, Executive Director, Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation; Damien Elias, Chairman & CEO, CampusDoor, Inc.; and Jennifer Delaye, President & CEO, JDK Catering Inc.

    Fall Program Honoree: Luke Drayer, CEO & Founder of Drayer Physical Therapy Institute

  • 2008

    Spring Program Honoree: Major General Robert M. Williams, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks

    Fall Program Honoree: Dr. Tony F. Ceddia, President of Shippensburg University

  • 2007

    Spring Program Honoree: James Powers, Jr, Pennsylvania Homeland Security Director

    Fall Program Honoree: John Resnick, Legends of Success

  • 2005

    Program Honoree: Steve Sheetz, Chairman of the Board, Sheetz, Inc.

  • 2004

    Spring Program Honoree: Eugene Hickok, Ph.D, Under Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education

    Fall Program Honoree: Anita M. Smith, President & CEO of Capital Blue Cross

  • 2003

    Fall Program Honoree: Tony Schiano, President & CEO of Giant Food Stores Inc.

MENU CLOSE