Ms. Schurtz is the Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State Board of Investment, overseeing investment portfolios valued at $149 billion. Prior to this role, she served as the Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer for the St. Paul Teachers’ Retirement Fund Association. She has been recognized as one of Pension & Investments’ Influential Women in Institutional Investing.
Her other professional affiliations include serving as the CEO of Robeco-Sage, a NY-based asset management firm; investment banking at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray; the technical research group at Knight Equity Markets; and practicing law at Skadden, Arps.
Over the course of her career, she’s served on a number of for-profit and nonprofit boards. She currently serves on the West Point Investment Committee, the Board and Investment Committee of the M.A. Mortenson Company, the National Institute of Retirement Security, and the Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association. Her past Board and Committee service includes the Alerus Financial Corporation, the Okabena Investment Advisory Committee, Children’s Minnesota, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the MacPhail Center for Music, and the Breck School Board of Trustees, where she served as Board President.
Jill graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, and served seven years in the US Army, where she attained the rank of Captain. Following her military service, she received her JD from Columbia Law School.