Lori Suddick has been selected as the new president and chief executive officer of DMACC. Suddick will be DMACC’s fifth president and will officially start on June 15.
She will be succeeding Rob Denson, who retired in December after 22 years as president, and Liang Chee Wee, who is the interim president.
According to Kevin Halterman, the president of the DMACC Board of Directors and chair of the Presidential Search Committee, “Her expertise in building skilled workforce pipelines and her commitment to teaching and learning excellence make her the ideal person to strengthen DMACC’s mission. We are thrilled to welcome her to the DMACC and Central Iowa communities.”
Suddick has 26 years of experience working at two colleges. She has been the president and chief executive officer of the College of Lake County in Illinois since 2018. During that time, the college saw a 10-percentage-point increase in three-year graduation rates. They also had a 272 percent increase in dual enrollment and significantly increased student retention.
According to a DMACC press release, Suddick also helped create the college’s capital campaign and multimillion-dollar endowment gift. The College of Lake County has been recognized in the Aspen Prize Top 200 U.S Community Colleges. DMACC is also recognized as one of the top 200 U.S. community colleges.
Suddick was also vice president of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College for nine years and worked there for 19 years in faculty roles. At Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, she started as a faculty member and program director in the Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Program. She later served as an associate dean of health sciences and interim dean of the college’s Marinette location.
She started her career as a speech-language pathologist, serving in various medical and rehabilitation settings before transitioning into higher education leadership. She has received recognition for her leadership in student momentum metrics and has served on multiple state and national workplace development, higher education, and non-profit boards.
She received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Speech and Language Pathology from Eastern Michigan University. She also holds a Doctor of Education with a specialization in Career and Technical Education from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She is a first-generation college graduate in her family.
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