Marion Rich

Marion Rich

MEMBER

Marion Rich has been a Pinellas County resident for 36 years. She grew up in Massillon, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati with undergraduate and graduate degrees in communication arts and film studies.

Marion was a professor of communications at St. Petersburg College for 10 years. She began her community volunteer work in 1990 with the Junior League of Clearwater Dunedin. Her training through the Junior League led her into the next 30 years of volunteer leadership in the Tampa Bay region. Marion has served in leadership positions on several nonprofit boards, including 211 Tampa Bay Cares (20 years/past board chairman), Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation (immediate past board chair), the Junior League of Clearwater Dunedin (past president), Film Foundation of Tampa Bay (founder and past chair), the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida (former executive vice-president), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay, and Ruth Eckerd Hall.

Today, Marion serves on the Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation board of trustees, the Morton Plant Mease Health Care board of directors, Morton Plant Mease Community Health Needs, and the Morton Plant Mease Clinical Excellence committee. She also serves on the 211 Tampa Bay Cares board of directors and the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida board of directors.

Outside the Tampa Bay region, Marion serves on the Film at Lincoln Center board of trustees in New York City and the national Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation board of trustees.

Marion has also chaired major fundraising events for Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation, American Heart Association, Junior League of Clearwater-Dunedin, Film Foundation of Tampa Bay, 211 Tampa Bay Cares, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Girl Scouts of West Central Florida.

The Greater Clearwater Chamber of Commerce recognized Marion as Ms. Clearwater in 2002, the same year she received a Woman of Distinction award from the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida. In 2017 Marion was inducted into the GSWCF Women of Distinction Hall of Fame.

Marion has a son, Tom, who lives in Jupiter, Florida, and a daughter, Mimi, who resides in New York City.