ANFP, CBDM, NFEF Announce 2025-2026 Leadership
Released: 30-June-2025
Contact Information:
Sarah Dunton
Association of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals
Marketing and Member Engagement Coordinator
sdunton@ANFPonline.org
800.323.1908 x234
St. Charles, IL – The Association of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals (ANFP) is pleased to announce its 2025-2026 leadership. These volunteers took office on June 1. They represent ANFP, the Certifying Board for Dietary Managers (CBDM), and/or the Nutrition & Foodservice Education Foundation (NFEF).
Kenneth D. Owens, CDM, CFPP will serve as ANFP’s Chair of the Board. Owens previously served as Chair-Elect. Owens is the Director of Food Service at Kingwood Pines Hospital in Humble, TX. Owens is serving with prior experience as a Director at Large and Treasurer-Elect.
Marjorie Smith, CDM, CFPP will serve as Chair-Elect. Smith previously served as Treasurer, Director at Large, and Treasurer-Elect. Smith is the Director of Food and Nutrition Services at Good Samaritan St. James in Lewisville, MN.
Robert Milligan, CDM, CFPP will serve as Treasurer, after previously serving as Treasurer-Elect and Director at Large. Milligan is the Dining Services Navigator at TLC Management in Crown Point, IN.
Renee M. Spence, CDM, CFPP will serve as Treasurer-Elect. Spence previously served as a Director at Large. Spence is the Certified Dietary Manager, Nutritionist at L.M.C. Extended Care in Lexington, SC.
Felicia A. Smith, MHA, CDM, CFPP will serve as Immediate Past Chair. Smith previously served as Chair, Chair-Elect, Treasurer, and Treasurer-Elect. She is the Director of Hospitality Services at Memorial Hospital of Converse County in Douglas, WY and has over 24 years of foodservice experience.
Wendy Harbach Hasden; Sarah Jane Winchell, CDM, CFPP; and Jeffrey Wuollet, CDM, CFPP will begin their terms as Directors at Large.
Continuing in their role as Directors at Large are Sona Donayan, EdD, RDN; Hunter Hying, CDM, CFPP; Ellen Lowre, RDN, LDN; Tiffany Nabozny; Joey Rost, CDM, CFPP; Amarilys Saluk, CDM, CFPP; and Regina St Clair, CDM, CFPP.
Joyce Gilbert, PhD, RDN remains the President & CEO of ANFP.
CBDM Announces New Board Members
The Certifying Board for Dietary Managers (CBDM) – the credentialing agency for ANFP – formally announces that Amanda Margaret Page, CDM, CFPP and Dr. Milton L. McGowian, DBA, CDM, CFPP, FMP, MCP have joined the CBDM Board.
Kenneth Hanson, CPM, CDM, CFPP will continue as Chair of the Certifying Board.
Also continuing their service to the Certifying Board are Andrea N. Armstrong, CDM, CFPP; Randall J. Sparrow, CDM, CFPP; Jessica L. Weisbrich, RDN, LD, CDM, CFPP, and Elizabeth Steinhauser.
NFEF Announces Chair and Trustees
Dr. Milton L. McGowian, DBA, CDM, CFPP, FMP, MCP will serve as the new Chair for the Nutrition & Foodservice Education Foundation (NFEF) Board of Trustees. Hunter Hying, CDM, CFPP will serve as Chair Elect.
Robert Milligan, CDM, CFPP will serve on the NFEF Board as Treasurer.
The Immediate Past Chair is Nancy Merkel, CDM, CFPP.
NFEF formally announces Antanesha Patterson, CDM, CFPP and LaToya Preston, CDM, CFPP have joined the NFEF Board as members.
Continuing their service to the Board of Trustees are Kenneth Hanson, CPM, CDM, CFPP; Melissa K. Kern, CDM, CFPP; Shellee Roloff, Lisa Waring, Dorothy M. Radermacher, and Anne Gali, CDM, CFPP.
Congratulations to the new and continuing leaders on the ANFP, CBDM, and NFEF Boards.
ANFP is a national not-for-profit association established in 1960 that represents more than 13,000 professional members dedicated to the mission of providing optimum nutritional care through nutrition and foodservice management. ANFP members work in hospitals, long-term care facilities, correctional facilities and other non-commercial food settings.