Rutherford Pool is owned by the City of Ypsilanti. The pool is governed by a volunteer board called Friends of Rutherford Pool. Below are our current board members.

Jessica Faul is the current president of the board. She loves the pool because of the sense of community there. It is a fun place to see friends and neighbors and meet new people. Jessica works at the University of Michigan as an epidemiologist. Her perfect day would include gardening or spending time outside with people she loves. Good food is a must too!

Stephanie Hart is our treasurer. Her favorite part of the pool is that she loves seeing neighbors and their families being active and running into each other! “There is such a great feeling of being a part of your community when you are there.” Her profession is being an administrator in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. Her perfect day would be waking up without an alarm and taking off for an adventure in the woods or on the water with family or friends.

Sarah Borgstadt is the secretary for the Board. Her first memories of the pool include learning to swim during summer lessons. “I now get to enjoy the pool with my own kids. I work as a nurse at Mott PACU. My perfect day includes any time spent by water, sun, and family. “

Kristen Teasdale Enjoys how welcoming, fun, and safe it feels to visit the pool. She loves family swim! Such a great activity for stir crazy young kids in the evening. Kristen has spent most of her career in the nonprofit world, including arts & culture, hunger relief, adult education, and community gardening and food resources. Currently, she works at WCC as a Program Manager in the Lifelong Learning department where she oversees the Creative Arts, Languages, Senior Programming, and many more enrichment classes. Her idea of a perfect day is for the kids to sleep through the night and nobody wakes up until 9 am! The rest of it is all gravy if that happens! For my dream-perfect day though, I'd take a nice cup of coffee, an hour at the gym, a trip to the farmers market followed by an alfresco lunch with a Caprese salad. Follow that up with an afternoon nap in a hammock in 78-degree breezy weather, grill up something tasty for dinner and walk over to the pool for family swim before winding down for the day.

Joel Rutherford is the son of Jesse Rutherford for whom the pool is named. Joel feels that the pool welcomes everyone. Joel is a retired Air Traffic Controller. His idea of a perfect day is to take my grandkids to Rutherford Pool and seeing the fun they have.

M. Jeanice Townsend My favorite thing about the pool is its history and the pool's commitment to the community. The success of the pool is built on the board's commitment to providing a quality recreation venue that is clean, safe, fun, and memorable. Jeanice is a realtor. Her perfect day consists of no commitments. Doing simply nothing; but relaxing.

Eric His favorite part of the pool is the deep end! By day he is a house painter and by night he is a musician. Eric reports that his favorite day would start with a lazy morning with 2 extra cups of coffee, then either XC skiing or biking thru lunch, lunch, hunker down in the kitchen, and make some seriously good food.

Evalyn Yanna Evalyn is the newest member of the Board. She brings a wide array of technical skills and helps to update the website and send out announcements. Her perfect day is usually spent on a cruise ship visiting a tropical paradise, but since she also has a full-time career - spending time at Rutherford Pool is a close second!