President
Lincoln University
820 Chestnut Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101

Phone: 573-681-5042

E-mail: mahoney@lincolnu.edu

Appointment Term: Apr 16, 2010 to At the Pleasure of the Governor

Mahoney became the eighteenth president of Lincoln University of Missouri on February 1, 2005. At the June 2007 meeting of the American Association of University Professors, Lincoln University was recognized as Dr. Mahoney received the Ralph S. Brown Award for Shared Governance.

President Mahoney serves on the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the United Way of Central Missouri Board of Directors, the St. Mary’s Health Center Board of Directors, and the Capital Region Medical Center Board of Governors. She is a member of the Jefferson City Breakfast Rotary Club as well as the Zonta Club of Jefferson City, Missouri. In November 2008, she was named to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Presidents Council.

On May 12, 2009, President Mahoney was selected as the 2009 Zonta Woman of Achievement during the 10th Annual Yellow Rose Luncheon held at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City, Missouri.

In June 2009, Dr. Mahoney was elected by her peers to serve a two year term as President of the Missouri Council on Public Higher Education (COPHE), a member-based organization of the presidents and chancellors of the state's public 4-year institutions.

In January 2010, President Mahoney was appointed to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Council of State Representatives and to the AASCU Presidential Advisory Committee Stewards of Place II Initiative. She was appointed to a two year term on the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Board of Directors and in February 2010, she will begin a two year term on the Executive Committee for the APLU Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence (CADE).

Dr. Mahoney initiated her undergraduate career at Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas, and returned to her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, to attend and graduate summa cum laude with the B.S. degree in mathematics from Siena College. She received the M.S. degree in 1972 and the Ph.D. degree in 1984, both in mathematics, from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

(Updated 4-26-10)