Chapter Officers
Peggy Rishe
Chapter President
Peggy is a graduate of the University of Illinois where she served as President of the Delta Pi collegiate chapter. Peggy, along with her husband and 2 sons, moved to the Charlotte area in 2005 from Illinois. They love the Queen City! In the fall of 2020, they bought a home on beautiful Lake Norman. She joined the Charlotte Alumnae Chapter in 2017 and has had the honor of serving as its President since 2018. She earned an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Ernestine Block Grisby Award for her service to her alumnae chapter. Her hobbies include gardening, reading, traveling and collecting all things Tri Delta!
Madison Gobbell
Vice President & Reference Chair
Madison is a proud Life Loyal Tri Delta member from the Alpha Lambda chapter at the University of South Carolina. She is blessed by the sisterhood she gained through joining Tri Delta, and she still talks to her best friends from her chapter daily. In her free time, she enjoys hanging out with her husband and her dog. Madison also enjoys cooking, playing tennis, and her favorite hobby, pickleball!
Karen Kaplan
Treasurer
Karen was born and raised in West Virginia. She pledged Tri Delta at WVU and is an avid Mountaineer football fan. Karen has been a long-time active member of the Charlotte Alumnae Chapter and currently serves as Treasurer. She has a son and a daughter and two cats and works as a trademark paralegal at an Uptown law firm.
Lisa Schwartz
Panhellenic Council Chair
Meet Lisa Schwartz, our chapter's Panhellenic Delegate Lisa graduated from the University of Texas Arlington, with a B.B.A, an M.B.A and a Ph.D. in finance. She has been active with the Charlotte Tri Delta Alumnae Chapter since moving to Charlotte in 1998. She currently serves as the Tri Delta representative to the Charlotte Alumnae Panhellenic Council and also serves as the co-VP for Scholarship. Lisa is a Professor of Finance at Wingate University. Running, golfing and traveling are some of her favorite pastimes.
Janet Pierce
Book Club Chair
Janet grew up in Shreveport, LA, and graduated from LSU. She moved to Monroe, LA, for a job with Xerox, and she got involved with the local Tri Delta alumnae chapter. Later, she followed her dream to move to a big city where she connected with the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter. After 6 years in Atlanta, Janet moved to Charlotte, NC, where she met her husband, Dan. She enjoys cooking, theme dinners, gardening, traveling, and discovering the state of NC through hiking. She recently switched to working part time at TIAA.
Andrea Ockers
Zip Code Ambassador
Andrea joined Tri Delta's Alpha Tau Chapter at Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. She has been an active Tri Delta alumnae member in NJ, NY, and now North Carolina. Andrea joined the Charlotte Tri Delta Alumnae Chapter in 2020 and is a Zip Code Ambassador for the Waxhaw area. Andrea works for Citibank as a Project Manager supporting Operations & Technology Business Risk and Control, Privacy and Compliance Services.
Denise Root
Celebration Committee Chair and Zip Code Ambassador
I was born in Ohio. My father was in the Army so we moved a lot and he retired to Florida in 1980 where I stayed to finish elementary school, middle school, high school and then off to Tampa for college. I met my husband at the University of South Florida (He’s a Pi Kappa Alpha) and married him in 1989. We moved to Punta Gorda, FL where I worked in banking. I am a mom of 2 men. One is 32 and is married and lives south of Charlotte. The other is 23 and is finishing up at the University of Alabama. (He’s a Lambda Chi Alpha). We moved to many places because of my husband’s job and settled in Cornelius in 2017 with my parents who have lived with us for almost 20 years. My most recent profession was an event planner and I officially retired in 2018. So now I just plan for fun, without pay ;) My husband is retiring at the end of February so my life will be taking a new path soon!
Anne Smith
Sunshine Committee Co-Chair
Anne was initiated into Tri Delta at West Virginia University and graduated from Ohio State University. She lives in Mount Pleasant, SC, and is married and has three children and two grandsons. She joined the Charlotte Alumnae Chapter in 2020 and volunteers with three collegiate Tri Delta chapters. She enjoys reading, tennis, and traveling.