Ellen Goldberg Luger is currently Executive Director of the General Mills Foundation and Vice President, General Mills, Inc.  Her responsibilities include leadership and management of the day-to-day operations of the Foundation as well as program responsibilities for arts and culture and the General Mills Africa Women and Children’s Hunger Project grantmaking at the Foundation.

While at General Mills, she served in a cross-functional capacity as an Assistant Marketing Manager for Yoplait’s Strategic Growth Channels business, where she received the Commitment Award for distinguished performance.  She also served as a lobbyist for General Mills at the State Legislature during a rotation through the General Mills’ Public Affairs department.

Prior to joining the General Mills Foundation, in August of 1997, Luger practiced corporate law for 10 years.  Her career began in private practice in New York City and then moved in house as a corporate lawyer for Best Foods.  Upon her return to Minneapolis, Luger practiced and was a partner at Leonard, Street and Deinard, P.A.

Luger graduated from Wellesley College in 1983 and earned a B.A. with honors in Political Science and Sociology.  Luger also graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, served as President of College Government and was a Minnesota finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship.  After Wellesley, Luger earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center where she served as Articles and Notes Editor: The American Criminal Law Review.

Luger’s current volunteer work includes serving as a Trustee of Wellesley College and Breck School, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.  She also serves on the National Council on Foundations Committee on Corporate Grantmaking and is the incoming Vice-Chair of The Conference Board’s Contributions Council.  She recently served as co-chair of Senator Amy Klobuchar’s U.S. District Court Judicial Selection Advisory Committee.

Luger formerly served as President of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association, Vice-Chair and board member of the Minnesota Council on Foundations, Vice-Chair and Trustee of Twin Cities Public Television, Director of the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund, Director of Women Venture, and member of the Minneapolis United Way’s Legal Division Steering Committee.

Luger is married to Andrew Luger, an attorney and partner with Greene Espel, L.L.P. and they have two children, Stephanie age 19 and Joshua age 16.