Dr. Stan Liberty- President, is a native of Maine and earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is President Emeritus of Kettering University, having concluded six years of service as Kettering’s sixth president on June 30, 2011. Upon his retirement, he was lauded for his innovative leadership style, credited with the launch of new academic degree programs and the construction of an innovation center in addition to the development of initiatives that deepened the university’s involvement in the surrounding community. Although retired, he served as Interim President of Bradley University from June 1 – December 31, 2015.
He also served as a professor-in-residence of electrical and computer engineering at Bradley University and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on both part-time and full-time bases between January 2014 and May 2017. While president of Kettering, he served as a member of the Strategic Board of the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce and he served on the Boards of: Kettering University; PalNet (a Flint area higher educational library consortium); the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Michigan, Michigan Virtual University, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, the National Commission for Cooperative Education, the Association of Independent Technological Universities, and the Tri-County Venture Capital Fund I, LLC in Peoria, Illinois.
Presently he serves on the Boards of the Liberty Family Foundation (as president), and Fintiv, Inc. He is also the Manager of Ridgefield Healthcare, LLC, and CEO of S.R. Liberty Consulting Services, LLC. Dr. Liberty went to Kettering from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he had served seven and one-half years as provost and vice president for academic affairs. While at Bradley he was a member of the Board of the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce (PACC), chaired the PACC Transportation Committee, was a member of the PACC Business Advisory Committee, and served on the Peoria Civic Federation Transportation Committee.
He also chaired the Research, Education, and Innovation Team of Peoria NEXT, a science and technology-based economic development initiative, and he was a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Peoria Area World Affairs Council. Before joining Bradley, he served as dean of engineering for 13 1/2 years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as that university’s interim vice chancellor for academic affairs. Under former Nebraska Governors Kay Orr and Ben Nelson, he served as the Nebraska representative on the Science and Technology Council of the States, a working group of the National Governor’s Association.
In 1995 he worked at Transcrypt International, a manufacturer of secure communications products, in a part-time position as director of advanced research and planning. He also served as department chair of electrical engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and as a faculty member at Texas Tech University, where he was the founding director of Texas Tech’s Center for Energy Research, an associate dean of graduate studies, and a member of the Texas Energy Advisory Council.
Prior to his academic career, he was employed as a design engineer by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Dr. Liberty’s research in the 2 areas of mathematical system theory and stochastic control theory was supported by grants from several federal agencies including NSF, NASA, and the Office of Naval Research. The statistical control theory known as “cumulant control” has its origins in his work. In 1976 he was named the “Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor in the United States” by Eta Kappa Nu; He is a 2005 recipient of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering Honor Award for “significant contributions to the advancement of engineering, or meritorious achievements in engineering;” And he was a 2016 recipient of the Cheverus High School (Portland, Maine) Magis Award.
Dr. Liberty is an accomplished musician, having first performed professionally at the age of 13. He has been very active as a coach and leader in youth sports organizations in four states. He is an avid fisherman and a golfer.
April was formerly a passionate educator who strived to encourage and inspire youth to reach their full potential. Ms. Liberty’s efforts to inspire students of all ages have been supported by her music performance degree from the University of Miami, her high school diploma from Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts/New England Conservatory Prep, and her certifications as a Music Together Specialist and O’Connor Violin Method educator. Through the years, Ms. Liberty has taught, mentored, consulted, conducted, and performed locally and internationally in numerous venues. Ms. Liberty has been an educator within the Community Arts Program Conservatory for the Arts, Florida Youth Orchestra Program’s S.T.E.P.S outreach, P.A.C.E Homeschool Enrichment, Henry West Laboratory Elementary School, and served both as an educator and consultant at the Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart.
In addition, Ms. Liberty established her own violin and viola studio serving students all throughout the greater Miami area and founded and directed the first American Music Camp in Maine. Aside from her passion for music education, Ms. Liberty has volunteered her time for the Indego Africa organization and is proud to continue her more than ten years of involvement with the Liberty Family Foundation (“LFF”). While volunteering with LFF, Ms. Liberty has had many beautiful experiences helping to facilitate impactful initiatives. Some of her most memorable initiatives have included helping Nigerian music teachers receive certifications and training within the American music system in the US and serving on the foundation’s scholarship committee providing thousands of dollars in financial aid for deserving Maine college-bound seniors.
Most recently, Ms. Liberty was honored to introduce and support a group of DACA students from UCLA’s NAID Center/Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicano/studies at the White House and Capitol Hill where the students presented their research and provided solutions for DACA reform policies.
Ms. Liberty is currently a Mortgage Loan Originator partnered with one of the largest Mortgage Brokers in the country and is licensed in both Maine and Florida. As a mortgage professional, Ms. Liberty strives to educate and support her clients throughout the lending process and prides herself as a solution-oriented loan officer. She works with first-time home buyers, investors, and commercial loan products. On the home front, Ms. Liberty is a supportive contributor toward her husband’s real estate career and a proud mother of two curious and creative young girls.
Richard graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in accounting/corporate finance. Mr. Liberty has been an award-winning investment professional for over thirty-three years.
During the past fourteen years, Mr. Liberty owned and operated his own investment advisory firm. Prior to that, he was a branch manager of a Wall Street securities firm and an accountant for the international accounting firm Cooper & Lybrand. Mr. Liberty also co-founded an internationally marketed energy drink where he assisted in formula development, packaging, and marketing strategies.
Mr. Liberty has been a Trustee and or Director of several charitable entities and organizations and has been head chaperon for New England Conservatory’s (“NEC”) international orchestral performance tour of Spain and chaperone of many other NEC performance tours including Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela.
Prior to moving to Maine in 2009, Anthony practiced in the Real Estate and Private Client Groups of Morgan Lewis, one of the world’s leading global law firms, resident in the Philadelphia office, where he represented numerous Fortune 100 companies, Forbes 400 families, and Hollywood celebrities. While practicing at a leading Portland Maine law firm, Anthony was named a “rising star” by Superlawyers magazine and handled many high-profile deals, including the sale of the largest resort complex in Maine, and the $100,000,000+ acquisition of a portfolio of wind turbine farms.
Anthony was also the national real estate leasing counsel for the public company, IDEXX. Anthony is a 1998 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he was an all-conference member of the baseball team, and he graduated in 2002 from the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. Anthony is a member of the Board of Directors of the PortOpera, and a member of the Cumberland Club and the Portland Yacht Club.
