Metropolitan State welcomes new trustees

Joseph C. Ellis II, Minneapolis, and Bev Turner, Woodbury, are newly-elected trustees to the Metropolitan State University Foundation.

Ellis is the vice president and regional sales director of The Private Bank and Affluent Market Segments for the Great Lakes and Eastern Regions of Wells Fargo’s Wealth Management Group. He has been with Wells Fargo for more than 13 years.

Turner is vice president of government relations for The Travelers Companies. She originally joined the company in 1998 as senior corporate counsel. She holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and a juris doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School.

The Metropolitan State University Foundation generates private and public support for Metropolitan State University and assists the university in accomplishing its mission and maintaining its leadership role as an innovator in higher education.