Charlene McMann

Charlene McMann (b. circa 1951 in Chicago, Illinois)

Previously, McMann co-founded and was president of the Chicago Chapter of the Lymphoma Research Foundation, which was that organization's first local chapter. She received the local Chicago Jefferson Award for Public Service for her cancer advocacy in 2008, organizing, fundraising, and leadership. She subsequently became a Member of the National Board of Selectors of the Jefferson Awards for Public Service and launched a national program to promote health, physical activity, and well-being in students.

She has been serving as an executive board member of the Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation since 2017.

Felony plea deal McMann was accused of transferring funds on multiple occasions from the Chicago Blood Cancer Foundation to her own account between 2010 and 2013 while she was executive director. McMann pleaded guilty to a charge of personal use of charitable assets, a felony, on December 1, 2015. She was sentenced on January 27, 2016, to two years' probation and ordered to pay $44,085 to the Chicago-based Cancer Research Foundation, a similar charity.