Orleans Citizens Forum Board of Directors 2025
Mary Wright — President
Although a relatively new participant in the community life of Orleans, Mary has deep roots in the community. She and her husband live in the family home built by her relatives close to 200 years ago. Now retired from a career that connected the public, private and non-profit worlds in the areas of municipal administration, municipal finance and workforce development she is a member of Orleans’ Planning Board, Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners and Wastewater Management Advisory Committee. She also has taken up pickleball and enjoys morning walks with her golden retriever at Kent’s Point.
Tim Counihan
Tim spent 35 years in the semiconductor industry, starting in software development, progressing to running a wafer fab, defining and managing products, and eventually running processor product lines. When he started out all of the applications his components went into were for the military; by the time he retired they were all going into consumer products like cell phones, gaming consoles, and home automation.
Since retiring to Orleans 15 years ago, he and his wife have gut renovated their house on Kescayogansett Pond and he has been involved with the Orleans Pond Coalition, Lifetime Learning at the Snow Library, Lower Cape TV, and the Town’s Finance Committee, its Long Range Capital Planning Committee, and the Water and Sewer Board. He continues to love watching technology evolve.
Julia Enroth
Julia Enroth is a retired Town Administrator having served in that capacity in the Massachusetts communities of Westport, Wellfleet, Longmeadow and Marion. She also served on the Orleans Community Preservation Committee for 15 years , 12 of those years as Chair. In retirement, she is enjoying her roles as mother, grandmother and great-grandmother as well as being active in the First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist Church.
Fritz Luft
Fritz retired to Orleans with his wife in 2018 to enjoy the natural beauty, recreational opportunities and smalltown community life found in Orleans. He previously lived in bucolic Groton, MA, working as a product development engineer and project manager in the semiconductor equipment industry. Since moving to Orleans, Fritz has attended many committee hearings, served as Chair of the 2020 Community Center Feasibility Study taskforce, and initiated the annual Kent’s Point volunteer clean-up day.
Fritz firmly believes that solid, unbiased information is key to a strong democracy and is pleased to contribute however he can to the Orleans Citizen’s Forum in its mission to provide Orleans residents with dynamic, informative programs on critical local issues.
Bill Madden — Treasurer
Roger McDaniel
Growing up in Oklahoma, Roger began his career as a high school English teacher in Brooklyn. But for most of his career, Roger focused primarily on financing major energy and infrastructure projects, first as a lawyer and later as a banker and advisor to companies developing those projects. He retired in 2025. Although most of his life was in the New York City area, he and his wife, Joan Morgan, have been vacationing on the Cape since 1988 (in Orleans since 2014), and they moved to Orleans full-time in 2022.
In addition to OCF, Roger is a member of the Town’s Energy and Climate Action Committee, mentors a young man through Big Brothers Big Sisters, and is active in golf, pickleball, and his poetry group.
Maxine Minkoff — Past President
Maxine Minkoff spent most of her career in Education on a variety of positions including Interim Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent at Wachusett Regional School District, Nauset Middle School Principal and High School math teacher in the Philadelphia public Schools. She spent 15 years as a consultant, training teachers on research-based pedagogy and educational leaders on leadership skills, program evaluation, strategic planning, and systems thinking. She served as the Associate Director of Boston University’s study of the Chelsea School system.
At the Massachusetts Department of Education, Maxine created the Department’s first effort at building a computer database on best educational practices and programs, educational consultants, and exemplary resources for school personnel.
A resident of Orleans currently, Maxine has served as the president of the Orleans Citizens Forum and on various town committees, including the Charter Review Committee.