Board Members

Mr. Etienne is an attorney.  He has served as Senior Counsel in the legal departments of Stepan Company and Baxter International Inc.  At Baxter he led a team responsible for Environment, Health & Safety legal and auditing services; Trade Compliance; and certain Ethics and Compliance matters for Baxter’s businesses and facilities worldwide. While at Baxter, he helped to launch the company’s first Sustainability Report (now Corporate Responsibility Report) and the company’s Code of Conduct. Prior to Baxter, Mr. Etienne practiced law in the Chicago office of the global law firm Sidley Austin LLP.

Mr. Etienne was also a public-school Middle School teacher for a short while and served for more than 15 years on the Board of Regents of Trinity International University.  He is a graduate of Trinity College (IL) and the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign.

Peter and his wife Marci, whose three children attended District 95 schools, have been a member of Heritage Church and its predecessors in Lake Zurich for over twenty-five years.  

Mrs. Dannegger received her BS in Elementary Education at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign and received certifications in ESL and Bilingual Education from National Louis University. She has worked as an elementary bilingual, dual-language, and ESL teacher where she helped pilot and develop local districts’ dual-language and bilingual programs. She currently subs at the elementary level, is actively involved in the PTO, and manages the various sports and activities of her four boys. 

Mrs. Dannegger and her husband have resided in the district since 2008. They have four boys who currently attend elementary, middle, and high school. They have both been actively involved in the community, including being on the executive committee for LZBSA. In her free time, she enjoys watching her boys play sports, volunteering in the schools and community, and traveling.

Dr. Pinter is a college educator of Criminal Justice and Sociology. She earned her PhD in Sociology from Loyola University at Chicago as well as an MA in Criminal Justice/Criminology, Law and Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has taught at Loyola, UIC, Carroll University, the College of Lake County, and Harper College. She is also an academic and career advisor to university students. Before being a college instructor, she worked in behavioral health. Her research focuses on victimology and intersectionality.

As a District 95 School Board member, Dr. Pinter is excited to bring more members of the community into the wonderful activities that the district has created. She is focused on equity and academic excellence for all kids and the inclusion of various voices of the community into the halls of the schools. She is also focused on student, faculty, and staff safety and will pull her Criminal Justice background into that goal. She has two children in the district, one child in junior high and another in elementary school. Her husband was also a LZHS grad and he proposed to her in the classroom they met in at LZHS!

 In his final year of undergraduate at Illinois State University, Mark Haave took an internship with a local private bank where he worked in different departments and learned about the banking industry. Today, Mark is a Vice President at Huntington National Bank with 19+ years of industry experience. His strong leadership qualities and creative problem-solving abilities have allowed him to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced business environment. Mark played an integral role in the development and implementation of a financial institution’s Paycheck Protection Program which helped small business owners during the pandemic. As a member of Huntington National Bank’s Regional banking team, Mark is managing a growing book of business clients consisting of a wide array of transactions varying in size, type, and complexity.

Mark was born and raised in Arlington Heights and currently lives in Lake Zurich with his wife and two children. In his free time, Mark likes to spend time with his family, golf, and coach his children’s sports teams.