Diane Holt Frankle
Diane Holt Frankle ’75 is a Trustee of The College of Wooster and chairs the Board of Trustee’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, which provides leadership and support for the Board’s efforts to build competencies, skills, and capacity to engage and lead effectively within, across, and about difference, she also serves on the Board’s Trusteeship and Governance and Mission and Outcomes committees.
Frankle is chairman of the board, chief operating officer and co-founder of Building Bridges Together, a California nonprofit corporation promoting interfaith dialogue among Christians, Jews, and Muslims to develop meaningful relationships and understanding. Since 2013 she and her husband have been promoting interfaith dialogue programs.
Frankle is an active panelist in the Interfaith Speaker Bureau for Islamic Networks Group. She serves on the San Francisco Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit which challenges students and teachers to use history to confront bigotry and hate. She is a senior fellow in the American Leadership Forum — Silicon Valley.
Frankle practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance work with boards of directors and management as a partner with Ware & Freidenrich, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, DLA Piper, Kaye Scholer, and Arnold & Porter; she retired from the practice of law in 2018 to focus on Building Bridges Together. Diane received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, in 1979 and her B.A. from Wooster in Political Science.
