Elected: 2024
Current Term Ends: 2028
Committee: Audit, Building & Grounds
A longtime supporter of numerous local nonprofits and causes, Jerry Dietz is the founder and retired owner of CSP Management, a firm that manages apartment units and provides construction and home maintenance services in the Ithaca area. The company serves a broad spectrum of the rental population, including students, professionals, and low-income families.
The list of organizations Dietz has held leadership roles with is extensive. It includes the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce; Tompkins Center for History and Culture; Cancer Resource Center; Temple Beth-El; Hospicare; the annual Taste of the Nation event aimed at ending childhood hunger; and the annual AIDS Ride for Life, which he helped found in 1999 to raise funds for the Southern Tier AIDS Program. To honor his late wife, Judy Schapiro Dietz ’76, in 2013 he opened the Just Be Cause Not-for-Profit Development Center, which provides low-cost rental spaces to local nonprofit businesses.
Dietz earned his degree in Business Administration from the School of Business in 1975. Ithaca College activities he has been involved with as an alumnus include the Business School Advisory Council, Athletics Advisory Council, President’s Roundtable, Friends of Ithaca College, and Reunion Class Committee. In 2011, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ithaca College Alumni Association.