Board Members

​Lake Charlevoix Association Board Members

​Tom Darnton

​President

Tom is a practicing attorney, based in Charlevoix and focused on condominium and property law, with a particular interest in waterfront property issues. He enjoys living on Oyster Bay and monitors the west end of Lake Charlevoix for the Watershed Council’s lake monitoring program. He is a past board member of the Inland Seas Education Association, and a present board member of Lake Charlevoix Association, Charlevoix Historical Society and Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council. He is the chair of the Hayes Township Zoning Board of Appeals and serves as secretary of the township’s Parks and Recreation Committee. He co-chairs the LCA work team that oversees the Boyne City Demonstration Garden Project. He looks for ways to productively work towards the preservation and improvement of the conditions in our Watershed for all forms of life and has a strong belief in collaboration and thoughtful planning.

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Dan Mishler

​V.P.

My wife Martha and I have owned waterfront property on Lake Charlevoix since 1989. We now live on the South Shore near Ye Nyne Olde Holles Golf Club. After full and rewarding careers in teaching in Hartland, Michigan, we are now full-time residents of the area. My teaching career was as a High School Chemistry Teacher, during which I used every reasonable opportunity to fit water quality studies into the curriculum. I also coached football, basketball, and baseball and was the Science Department Chairperson for the district. I am an avid fly fisherman and a member of Trout Unlimited, which had an influence on the fact that all of my graduate coursework was in Aquatic Biology and Stream Ecology. I hope to use this background and my passion for the environment to help the Lake Charlevoix Association in its mission of protecting and preserving our beautiful lake for both current and future users. It will be very satisfying if we can all work together to make sure we leave this place better than we found it.

Howard Warner

​Treasurer

Susan and I have a decades long love of all things Charlevoix. While we have lived all over (Suburban Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Hawaii), we have spent significant time in Charlevoix almost every summer of our lives. As I finished a long finance and legal career in technology companies, we both agreed that Charlevoix was our dream retirement location. The pandemic merely accelerated our decision by a year or two as we bought our dream home on the lake in 2019 but moved here full time in 2020 once the impact of Covid became apparent. My background in legal and finance (I finished my career as the CFO of an advertising technology company bought out by Blackstone private equity) allows me to bring a unique skill set to the board of directors in my role as Treasurer. I love the lake immensely and look forward to working towards protecting it in the coming years.

​John Hoffman

​Secretary

My wife Barbara and I are from Fort Wayne and after spending vacations in Northern Michigan over the years we moved permanently to our home just outside Boyne City on the south side of Lake Charlevoix. I am a retired intellectual property attorney and was in private practice in Washington, DC, and Fort Wayne for over forty years. In addition to serving on the LCA Board, I am active in the Little Traverse Conservancy and Northern Community Mediation. When we wake up each morning and see the beauty of Lake Charlevoix it reminds us of why we moved here. Maintaining the beauty and health of this wonderful natural asset is the motivation for my involvement with the LCA.

​Erin O'Donnell

​Member

Erin O’Donnell is a licensed Realtor with Pat O'Brien & Associates, helping clients buy and sell property. Before moving to Michigan in 2016, Erin had a twenty-year career in political campaign fundraising. She founded a boutique fundraising and event planning firm in Ohio to work with statewide elected officials running for office. Her clients included the Ohio governors, the auditor of state, attorney general, members of congress and the Ohio Supreme Court. She also served as Communications Director and Chief of Staff for the Office of Criminal Justice Services, an agency under the Ohio Governor’s Office. She received her bachelors degree at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1996 while serving as student body president. She and her husband Tim enjoy winter in Charlevoix just as much as summer. They reside near Mt. McSauba with their two dogs, Seamus the alaskan malamute, and Murphy the pug. Erin is the grateful stepmother to Tim’s four adult children: Brenden, Kayla, Elise & Brigit. 

Lyn Jenks

Member

Lyn began her career in healthcare at Hutzel Hospital in the Detroit Medical Center after attending Wayne State University. After moving to Petoskey in 1973, she joined the staff at Lockwood MacDonald Hospital, then Northern Michigan Hospital.  There, she held positions ranging from Director, Administrative Services to Vice President of Marketing and Planning to President of the Hospital Foundation, where she built their corpus to over $35 million. In 2012, she was appointed CEO of Charlevoix Area Hospital, now Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital, where she orchestrated a multi-million dollar turn-around for the organization resulting in five successive years of positive financial performance. Lyn has her own consulting firm specializing in governance, leadership and strategic planning. She has published many articles and one book, “Bananas and Bunny Slippers: 50 Quick Tips for Leaders”.

Sheryl Ryan 

​Member

I have been coming up north to vacation since 1976. My husband Bob and I were in Bay Harbor for about 15 years before buying a home on Lake Charlevoix in 2012. I enjoy nature and wish to protect our beautiful lakes, streams and land. By serving on the Lake Charlevoix Association I am looking forward to contributing my experience to improve our environmental needs. We have three grown daughters and one beautiful grand daughter, Remi. Two of our daughters, Claire and Kate, live in NYC with their husbands . Our youngest daughter, Heather, lives in Bloomfield Hills with her husband and our grand daughter. I am a MSU alum and owned an environmental company in the Detroit area for many years before moving to Charlevoix. I look forward to seeing where I can best serve the community. 

​Julie Stratton

Outreach