Holiday Hart McKiernan
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Holiday Hart McKiernan brings to Lumina Foundation for Education an expertise on tax, organizational and legal issues affecting higher education institutions. As senior vice president and general counsel, McKiernan directs the Foundation’s legal affairs and serves as lead internal counsel.
Before joining Lumina Foundation in 2003, McKiernan was executive director and counsel for Alpha Chi Omega. Before joining Alpha Chi Omega in 1991, she practiced at Baker & Daniels and Leagre & Barnes law firms, concentrating on nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations.
McKiernan is an acknowledged expert on legal, governance and policy issues concerning nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions and a frequent public speaker on these topics.
She serves on the Board of Visitors for DePauw University, the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Community Foundation and the Advisory Board for the Stetson University College of Law Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy.
McKiernan is a Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., and received her law degree, cum laude, from Indiana University.
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