Todd J. Regis

Chair
Retired, Recorder/Officer and Director of Legislative & Community Affairs for United Food & Commercial Workers Local 951
Email: regis1tj@cmich.edu
Term Expires: December 31, 2030
Board Committees:
- Audit Committee (chair)
Todd J. Regis was appointed to the Board of
Trustees by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in February 2023 for an eight year term
expiring December 31, 2030. He is now retired from his role as the
Recorder/Officer and Director of Legislative & Community Affairs for United
Food & Commercial Workers Local 951, the largest private sector union local
in Michigan. The UFCW represents over 1.3 million members working in industries
including retail, meat packing, food processing and manufacturing, hospitality,
agriculture, cannabis, chemical trades, security, textiles and healthcare in
the United States and Canada. Mr. Regis has extensive experience in organizing,
contract negotiations, problem-solving, grievance handling, arbitrations and
legislative policy learned in his 40 years of membership and 34 years as a
staff member.
Prior to serving in his most recent
position, which he was elected to in January 2023, his roles at UFCW 951 have
included serving as a Vice President, Director of Contract Administration,
Political Director, Director of Organizing and representative. Since 2006, he
served as Chairman and director of the UFCW Local 951 Foundation, a 501(c)(3)
that assists UFCW member families and communities throughout Michigan. Mr.
Regis was instrumental in soliciting over 125,000 pounds of food donations and
over 90 semi-trucks of bottled water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in
Flint at the beginning of their water crisis in 2016.
Mr. Regis is a fifth-generation native of
Hickory Corners, MI and has previously served on the Certificate of Needs
Commission, Michigan Food Policy Commission, Michigan Food Security Commission,
and the Michigan Commission of Agriculture, serving as chairman in 2010. He has
also served on numerous community boards including the Potter Park Zoo Board
and Alpha Kappa Psi National Foundation board.
Mr. Regis holds a BBA from Western Michigan
University. He is a proud shareholder/owner of the Green Bay Packers and enjoys
history, traveling, using his grills and smoker for generational meals and
spending time with his family, especially outdoors at a campfire. He lives in
Brownstown Township with the love of his life Sandy, and they have four
children and a grandson.