Wendy M. Siegel

Co-Chair, Council of National Trustees

National Jewish Health

As the mastermind behind A Winter’s Evening for the last 30 years, Wendy Siegel has envisioned and then produced magnificent and iconic benefit galas, honoring deserving individuals in the New York Real Estate and Construction industries. Through this annual event alone, she has helped raise more than $55 million for life-changing care and research at National Jewish Health.

Since 2000, Wendy and her husband Stephen B. Siegel have served on the National Jewish Health Council of National Trustees. They have been Council co-chairs since 2006, overseeing a team of more than 275 elected Trustees from across the country who serve as ambassadors and advocates for the hospital.

Together, Wendy and Steve established the Stephen B. and Wendy Siegel Fund for Pediatric Asthma and Allergy Research. In 2013, National Jewish Health established the Wendy Siegel Fund for Leukemia and Cancer. Over the years, Wendy has been recognized with our most prestigious honors, including the Arthur B. Lorber Award, the Chairman’s Award and the President’s Award.

Wendy is President Emerita of the Big Apple Circus, a New York nonprofit that raised money to support pediatric hospitals nationwide. She is a co-founder of the NYU Medical Center KIDS pediatric foundation. She currently serves on the board of directors of the 92NY, and previously served as a board member of the Horace Mann School.

In November 2017, the Rabin Medical Center in Israel, established the Wendy and Stephen B. Siegel Acute Myeloid Leukemia Outpatient Clinic. Wendy is on the board of the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry, where a donor circle established in her honor has (so far) raised more than $6 million, supported more than 2,200 bone marrow matches and enabled 286 lifesaving stem cell and bone marrow transplants.

Wendy spent her professional life in the field of electrical and mechanical engineering. She and Steve have two children Jared (Kasey) and Cassandra (Alex), and grandchildren Grey, Addison, Nolan and Davie.