On July 1, Sister Margaret Mary Hinz, Associate Director for the Graham School of Management’s Graduate Program at the Orland Park Campus, will begin her five year tenure as one of the Sisters of Mercy’s West Midwest Leadership Team’s six members in Omaha, Nebraska with Sister Sue Sanders from the Chicago campus.
The West Midwest Community is among six geographic divisions of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and administers an area stretching from Detroit to San Francisco. According to Sister Hinz, this region contains almost 700 Sisters of Mercy.
“I’m very honored and excited to be able to serve my sisters” said Sister Hinz of her election to the leadership team.
She believes her biggest challenge in her new position will likely be the amount of travel that administering such a large area will require, but she said her goal is to “be an effective member of the team, to serve the Sisters of Mercy of the West Midwest community as best [she] possibly can and to move [them] forward in the next five years in whatever way [they] are led by the Holy Spirit.”
Sister Hinz is a native of Chicago who received a Bachelor of Arts in math education at what was then Saint Xavier College. It is here that she said she originally met the Sisters of Mercy and decided to join them.
She received an MBA from Saint Ambrose College, holds a Nursing Home Administrator’s license in the state of Illinois and has worked at acute hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals and nursing homes.
Sister Joy Clough, a fellow Sister of Mercy at Saint Xavier, said “Saint Xavier, especially the Graham School and the Orland Park Campus staff, is going to miss Sister Margaret Mary. Her commitment to Graham School graduate students has been a real service to them, and that type of commitment to individuals is a real gift that she brings to the leadership role for the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community.”
Sister Hinz said that she will miss the students more than anything at Saint Xavier. “I have really enjoyed working with these MBA students. I’ve enjoyed the atmosphere of the Orland Park campus, and I’m very grateful to have worked with the faculty and other administrative staff within the Graham School of Management.”
Tony Bara
Editor in Chief