Vice Chair - Hendrink “Hank” G. Meijer
Hendrik “Hank” G. Meijer
TERM AS TRUSTEE
June 1, 1998 through Present
Vice Chairman since 2006
BIOGRAPHY
Hank Meijer is executive chairman of Meijer, Inc, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He joined the family retail business as a grocery clerk at the age of eleven.
After graduating from the University of Michigan he served as editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper in Plymouth, Michigan before rejoining Meijer in 1979 as assistant advertising director.
Hank’s first book, a biography of his grandfather, Hendrik Meijer, appeared in 1985. His second, a biography of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, was published in 2017 by University of Chicago Press.
He is vice chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and serves on the executive committees of the Food Marketing Institute and the National Constitution Center.
He is a member of the Mackinac Island State Parks Commission and a trustee of the Kettering Foundation.