Brief Biography

Jill A. Schumann

Jill Schumann, MBA, serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lutheran Services in America. LSA is an alliance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and their over 300 health and human service organizations. Lutheran social ministry organizations form one of the largest nonprofit networks in the country. Together they serve one in 50 Americans each year and have aggregated annual incomes over $16.6 billion.

Prior to her work with LSA, she launched Kairos Health Systems, a nonprofit post acute care alliance, and served in executive roles with non-profit and for-profit organizations including on the senior team of Tressler Lutheran Services. She created ground-breaking programs in post acute healthcare, behavioral health and chemical dependency treatment. She has consulted with church organizations, healthcare, aging services and social service providers particularly around innovative programming for the future. Schumann leads regional and national task forces and project groups, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. She serves on the boards of directors of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, the ELCA Board of Pensions, the Roundtable of National Faith-Based Health and Human Service Organizations and is the current chair of the board of directors of the National Human Service Assembly. For the seventh year in a row in 2009 she was named by the NonProfit Times one of the Top 50 leaders of power and influence in the United States and has been described as an “imaginative social entrepreneur.”

Ms. Schumann holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Mount Saint Mary’s University and did Ph.D. work in history and alcohol studies at Rutgers University.

Reports of the President and CEO

Read the 2009 Report of the President and CEO.