Janet L. Steinmayer

Essex, CT/Cambridge, MA/Nantucket.  Janet is the President of Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and prior to that was the President of Mitchell College in New London, CT. She started her career as a corporate lawyer in New York, served as General Counsel for Trans World Airlines and later served as CEO of Centerplate, a large hospitality company serving major league sports and convention center clients throughout North America. Janet is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where she served on the Board of Trustees for 21 years, and the University of Chicago Law School. She is a Trustee Emerita of the Southport School and has enjoyed serving on community and educational boards wherever she lives. Her children have been coming to Nantucket to endure numerous old house renovations on the island since 1996 and are now happy to come – with her grandchildren – to the one she assures them is her last project on the island.