Ted McKee was sworn in as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on June 20, 1994 and became Chief Judge of that court on May 4, 2010. He graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 1975 where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and earned several honors for outstanding academic performance. He began his legal career at a large Philadelphia law firm, but left there in 1977 to begin his career in public service. He has since been an Assistant United States Attorney, Deputy Solicitor in the Law Department of the City of Philadelphia, and General Counsel to the Philadelphia Parking Authority. He was elected to a 10-year term as a Judge of the Court of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania in 1984. While a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Judge McKee chaired the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission. He was appointed to the Court of Appeals by President Clinton shortly after being retained for a second 10 year term on the Court of Common Pleas. Judge McKee serves on the boards of directors of several nonprofit organizations and institutions including the Vera Institute of Justice, Syracuse University and the National Constitution Center. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors of Temple Law School, an honorary member of the Board of Visitors of Syracuse University Law School, and has been an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Project to revise the sentencing provisions of the Model Penal Code. Before becoming Chief Judge of the Third Circuit, he served on the Criminal Law Committee of the United States Judicial Conference. Most recently, Judge McKee was appointed to serve as a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on Law and Justice, and is one of the inaugural members of the Council on Criminal Justice, a national thinktank comprised of leading scholars, lawyers and judges that focuses on issues related to criminal justice and criminal justice reform. Judge McKee’s official travels have included Ghana, where he taught law and worked with the Ghanaian Supreme Court; as well as Russia, where he had the honor of addressing the Council of the Russian Judiciary on the Independence of the American Judiciary.

Mary Kay Meeks-Hank began working at Face to Face in 2008 and has served as its Executive Director for the past fifteen years. Ms. Meeks-Hank is responsible for visioning, implementing strategic direction, and oversight of programmatic and administrative functions. Under her leadership, Face to Face has expanded from one employee to 26 full time and 3 part-time staff members, and an active cohort of close to 1,000 volunteers. In 2016 she oversaw a $5M capital campaign that significantly expanded and modernized the Face to Face building to include a full-service commercial kitchen, new program and office space. Renovation of the building’s ground floor transformed the space into pre-school classrooms in a partnership with Mercy Neighborhood Ministries which currently operates a Head Start program there. The growth of Face to Face has been organic and has resulted from listening to the needs of its guests and prioritizing programs that address them. Her commitment to Face to Face, those living in poverty, and the broader Germantown community is unwavering. Prior to her work at Face to Face, she was an adjunct professor of sociology at LaSalle University and was a child welfare social worker and supervisor. Mary Kay earned a BA in sociology from Chestnut Hill College; an MA in sociology from Fordham University; and Certification in Executive Leadership from the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College. Mary Kay lives in Glenside with her husband, John, and has two adult daughters, Tara and Erin.