HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Hutchinson Community Foundation announces leadership transitions and additions to its board of directors.
Jon Richardson has assumed the role of chair alongside current vice chair Shane Iwashige. Richardson joined the board in 2020 and succeeds Dashona Mahoney, whose three-year term as board chair expired in 2025. She has been a board member since 2017 and continues to serve the foundation as immediate past board chair. Iwashige’s board service began in 2023.
Abby Stockebrand, a board member since 2022, has replaced outgoing director Michelle Inskeep as treasurer. Inskeep’s five-year term on the board expired in December.
In addition to leadership changes, the foundation has welcomed Patricia Macke Dick, John Fan, M.D., and Darrell Pankratz to its board.
-Macke Dick retired in January 2025 after serving for 36 years as a Kansas District Court Judge for Reno County, with 18 of those years spent as chief judge. Prior to her judicial career, she was a partner with Branine, Chalfant & Hill, Hutchinson.
She has been a member of or served on numerous national, state and local professional associations, task forces and boards, including the Kansas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees, Kansas Council of Chief Judges, Kansas District Judges Association as president, and as a U.S. Supreme Court appointee to the S.R.S Liaison Committee.
Locally, she serves on the Victory Village board of directors, as a Hospice & HomeCare of Reno County volunteer, and as a member of PEO Chapter JR. Previously, she served on the boards of the Ulster Project of Hutchinson, Hutchinson Hospital, Mid-Kansas Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale, Hutchinson Salvation Army and Buhler Sunshine Home. She was also elected to the Buhler City Council.
She has three adult children and has lived with her husband in Buhler since 1982.
-John Fan is a physician, shareholder and department vice chairman at Hutchinson Clinic.
His associations include the Society of Chinese American Physician Entrepreneurs and the Medical Executive Committee of Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He has been a 20-year volunteer for the Central Kansas Polio Survivors Support Group.
Fan has also participated in various state and national professional boards, committees and societies.
He attended Zhongshan University School of Medicine.
He has two adult children and resides with his wife in Hutchinson.
-Darrell Pankratz is executive chairman of AVE-PLP LLC. From 1989 to 2008, he was the owner and general manager of Pankratz Implement Co. before merging with Prairieland Partners LLC, where he was chief executive officer for six years.
Prior to his career in agriculture, Pankratz was an administrator at Ulysses High School.
Active in the community, he also serves as an independent director at First National Bank and has previously served as a Hutchinson Community College trustee and as a member of the KANSASWORKS board.
Pankratz is a graduate of Bethel College and Wichita State University.
He and his wife have three adult children and live in Hutchinson.
Hutchinson Community Foundation’s mission is to inspire philanthropy, leadership and collaboration to strengthen Reno County. Since 1989, the foundation has granted more than $115 million to organizations.
