Chairman: Stuart W. Nolan, Jr., Esq.
Stu Nolan is the founder and managing attorney at LegalWorks Apostolate, PLLC, a law practice that serves individuals, families, lay apostolates, and Church institutions by providing legal representation informed by fidelity to the Magisterium. He earned his law degree from the Catholic University of America and received his undergraduate degree from American University. Stu is a member of the Virginia Bar and is admitted to practice before the Federal Courts of Appeals for the District Columbia and Fourth Circuits. He is general counsel to the Catholic Radio Association and has represented hundreds of Catholic and pro-life apostolates.
Stu is also founder and chairman of the WitnessWorks Foundation for a Culture of Life, a foundation supported in part by his law practice, and he serves as chairman of the National Catholic Committee for Trail Life USA. He is founding troopmaster of Our Lady of Guadalupe Troop 1212, Front Royal, Virginia, a unit of Trail Life USA, on whose board of directors he also serves.
Stu and his wife, Cynthia, have been married for 23 years and have been blessed with five children, ages 8 to 18 years. They are active in parish life at St. John the Baptist parish in Front Royal, Virginia.
Frank Dennehy, MD
Dr. Frank Dennehy attended Georgetown University for college and the Georgetown University School of Medicine for his M.D. degree. He completed a Family Medicine Residency at the Penn State/Hershey-Good Samaritan Family Practice Residency in Pennsylvania. He has practiced in the U.S. Air Force in the past, and many years in small town family practice since then. For a number of years, he has been the Residency Director of a Family Medicine residency training program in Virginia, while continuing to practice in a small town there.
Dr. Dennehy is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the MCV/VCU School of Medicine. He was named the 2010 Virginia Academy of Family Physicians Teacher of the Year.
He is a member of the Catholic Medical Association. Some of his medical interests include Natural Family Planning, NaPro Technology, Medical Ethics, and Sports Medicine.
He and his wife are the homeschooling parents of 4 children.
Stephen Gajdosik
Stephen Gajdosik began his work in Catholic radio in 1997, founding Divine Mercy Radio in the Diocese of La Crosse. He then went on to co-found Starboard Broadcasting, which is today Relevant Radio. For the next 15 years he served as the first president of the Catholic Radio Association. Under Stephen’s direction, the CRA blossomed into a trade association to unite virtually all Catholic radio stations in the United States, as well as several (arch)dioceses in the US, Caribbean, Africa and Pacific in answering the call of the Holy Spirit to evangelize through Catholic radio. He has been involved in all phases of the organization and development of hundreds of lay and diocesan Catholic radio efforts.
From 2005 to 2011 Steve directed the Office of Media Relations for the Diocese of Charleston, SC, working through local media to inform and form the culture at large with the light of the Faith.
Prior to his involvement in Catholic radio Steve managed an agency for the Knights of Columbus where he specialized in business and estate planning.
Steve obtained his Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Mount Senario College and his Masters in Theology from Ave Maria University.
Steve and his wife, Tonia, reside on their farm near Spartanburg, SC and have seven children.
Luke Fier, CPA
Luke Fier is the Director of Finance at Christendom College, a Catholic liberal arts college institutionally committed to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. After attending Christendom College and subsequently earning his bachelors of business administration degree at James Madison University, he worked in the audit practice of a Big 4 accounting firm for five years serving clients in a variety of industries. He then returned to Christendom to serve initially as the controller and now as the director of finance.
Luke is a certified public accountant and a member of both the American Institute of CPAs and the Virginia Society of CPAs. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus.
Luke and his wife, Kristin, have been married for 10 years and have five children, ages 1 to 8 years. Both he and his wife are active volunteering at the school their children attend and coaching local youth soccer in Front Royal, VA where they reside.
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Chairman Emeritus: Patricia Bainbridge, MA
Patricia retired as chairman of HLI's board of directors in October 2015.
A former professor at Michigan State University, Patricia is co-founder and executive director emeritus of Life Decisions International. She serves on the board of directors for Witness Works Foundation and is on the board of advisors for a number of organizations including Pro Vita Advisors, Life Decisions International, and The Haven (a perinatal hospice).
On June 30, 2010 Patricia retired from the Diocese of Rockford, where she built the Respect Life office and served as its director, the Natural Family Planning Coordinator, and a columnist for The Observer, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Rockford. For seven of her ten years with the diocese she also served as chairman of the Department for Life of the Catholic Conference of Illinois.
She has spoken to numerous churches, pregnancy care centers, schools, community groups and pro-life conferences in the United States, Canada, Eastern Europe, and the Carribean. She is best known for her expertise on Planned Parenthood, the refutation of the arguments typically offered to justify abortion, the pro-life image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and her own spiritual journey.
In August of 2010, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, then-chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, presented Patricia with a "People of Life" award for her "lifetime commitment to the pro-life movement."
She and her husband, “Red,” have been married for 50 years.