Categories newsmakers | 1960sPosted on 2013/11/13Lee M. Mitchell ’65 Lee M. Mitchell ’65 was elected chair of the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that since 1934 has been dedicated to improving economic development, quality of life, and equity of opportunity in the greater Chicago metropolitan region. A partner with Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, he has been a member of the MPC board for 22 years and has already served as board chair once previously, in addition to holding other offices as well. A government major at Wesleyan, he earned a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago.