Sister Mary Madonna Ashton, CSJ, will begin as Delegate to Religious on Jan. 17.

For more than 20 years, Sister Ashton was the president/CEO of St. Mary’s Hos­p­ital and Re­ha­bilitation Center in Min­nea­polis, then spent eight years as Min­ne­sota’s State Commissioner of Health.

In 1991, she began organizing and ma­n­aging 11 neighborhood clinics (St. Mary’s Health Clinics) for low-income, medically uninsured people. In 2000, she began volunteer service in retirement.

OFFICIAL

Archbishop John C. Nienstedt has made the following appointment in the Archdio­cese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis:
Effective Jan. 17, 2011:

Sister Mary Madonna Ashton, CSJ: Dele­gate for Religious, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.