The current board of directors for the AME is:
Justine Clegg, President
Justine is a Florida homebirth Licensed Midwife, Mental Health Counselor, and Certified Lactation Counselor with 35 years
experience in maternal-child health and education. Currently AME Board secretary, and Academic Director for Commonsense
Childbirth School of Midwifery, Justine started the Midwifery degree program at Miami Dade Community College, served as
Midwifery Chair and Professor 1993-2008, and received an Endowed Chair in 2003. She was Council of Licensed Midwifery
Chair, Florida midwifery regulatory agency, 1993-2001, Chair of Miami’ s Fetal and Infant Mortality Review team, 2004-2008,
former Board member of MEAC and NACPM, and helped create NARM’ s certification program.
Breyette Lorntz, Vice President
Breyette Lorntz’ areas of expertise include education women’ s health, global health and multidisciplinary research methods. She
holds advanced degrees in mathematics and education and has lived and worked in ten countries. After six years working in the
UVa School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, she is transitioning to becoming a midwife.
Mary Yglesia, Secretary
Mary Yglesia is a graduate of the Seattle Midwifery School, practiced midwifery briefly in Eastern Washington returning to the school to serve as a school administrator. She was a past Executive Director of SMS and is now the Preceptor Coordinator
and Program Supervisor of Bastyr University's Department of Midwifery. She is on the board of directors of the Midwifery
Education Accreditation Council (MEAC) and the Seattle Girls' Choir. She is the proud mother of three incredible young women
who were all born at home into the hands of a midwife.
Susi Delaney, Treasurer
Susi Delaney is the Clinical Director at Birthwise Midwifery School, located in Bridgton, Maine. She has practiced as a Certified
Professional Midwife since graduating from Birthwise in 2007. She is also a member of the faculty at Birthwise, serving as the
instructor for Skills Practice courses, Independent Research, and Research Methods. She has been a board member of AME since
2009.
Wendy Gordon, CPM, LDM, LM
Wendy is a Certified Professional Midwife and is licensed in Oregon & Washington, with a busy group practice that serves women in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA. She served as a Board member of Seattle Midwifery School prior to its merger with Bastyr University, where she is currently an adjunct faculty member and preceptor for midwifery students. Wendy also serves on the Coordinating Council for the Midwives Alliance Division of Research.
Marla Hicks
Marla Hicks began practicing midwifery in the 1970s after working extensively with midwives and physicians attending
homebirths. She is licensed as a midwife by the Medical Board of California, is a Certified Professional Midwife and is board
certified in Perinatal Nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Marla has attended over a thousand homebirths as a senior midwife and has also worked in hospital labor and delivery units,
ambulatory care settings and a free-standing birth center. She is passionate about preserving homebirth as a safe choice for
pregnant women and their families and is firmly committed to educating future midwives through direct-entry and nurse-
midwifery educational programs. She is Co-Executive Director of Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery and a lead faculty member for
their midwifery education program.
April Kline
April Kline is a Certified Massage Therapist and Craniosacral Therapist, a Certified Professional Midwife, and an instructor at the Midwives College of Utah. She holds her MSM from the Midwives College of Utah and her BS in English and
Psychology from Oberlin College. She is also a Founder of Dar a Luz Network, Inc. April is currently loving life in Dayton,
Ohio with her husband, two young daughters, three cats, a dog, and a goldfish.
Stephanie Salfholm
Stephanie Safholm is the Admissions Advisor for the midwifery program at Bastyr University as well as a practicing
doula and childbirth educator. She was also a faculty and staff member for the former Seattle Midwifery School before
the merger with Bastyr. She brings her background in education and passion for helping to educate midwives to AME.
Stephanie is a midwifery consumer and lives in Seattle with her husband and son.
The strength of this organization depends on diversity of opinion and expertise and broad regional representation. We are currently recruiting additional members to join this dedicated group of leaders. There is so much good work to be done and you may be a great fit for the AME board of directors.