About the Order The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta is one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilization. The 13,500 Knights and Dames remain true to its principles – nurturing, witnessing and protecting the faith and serving the poor and the sick.
The American Association Founded in 1927 as the first association of the Order of Malta in the Americas, the association is headquartered in New York City with over 2,000 Knights, Dames and volunteers in over 30 Areas working with the poor, sick, and incarcerated and giving witness to the Catholic faith.
Spirituality Knights and Dames join the Order of Malta to pursue their spiritual growth over a path laid out by Blessed Gerard more than nine hundred years ago, seeking to nurture and witness the Faith and assist the sick and the poor.
Spirituality in Action Members are involved in hands-on work at over 100 hundred organizations, including food banks, hospitals, pregnancy support centers, homeless shelters and mentoring programs for at risk children.
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Kenneth R. Craig, KM
New York City Area, Member since 2004
Ken joined the Order as an Auxiliary in 2001 and became a Knight in 2004. He has been an annual Lourdes pilgrim since 2003 and Pilgrimage Co-President since 2014. Ken was a member of the Board of Councillors from 2009 – 2014 and again beginning in 2017. Ken was Secretary of the Malta Human Services Foundation Board from 2015 – 2018 and serves as Master of Ceremonies for the annual Investiture weekend.
Ken is Co-Chair of the Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Wisconsin. He has been actively involved with the global Order, championing the Association’s participation in the International Camp for Young Disabled and the Blessed Gerard Retreat in Rome for young members of the Order. In 2014, Ken was appointed by the Grand Chancellor as Observer to the Australian Association and Subpriory of the Immaculate Conception. He has served as NY Area Treasurer, Auxiliary Coordinator, and for many years, raised funds for the Lourdes Pilgrimage and Terence Cardinal Cooke Hospital by designing and selling Order of Malta-branded merchandise.
Ken holds a Bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Management and International Business from New York University. He has worked as a technology and operations executive in the investment banking industry for almost thirty years. Ken serves on the Staten Island Catholic Schools board. Ken and his wife, Suzanne, reside in Manhattan and are parishioners at Holy Trinity Parish where they are Extraordinary Ministers.
Thomas J. Reedy, KMOb
Florida – Naples Area, Member since 2002
Tom Reedy was elected Vice Hospitaller of the American Association in 2010. He was elected Hospitaller in 2012. Tom is currently a member of the Board of Councillors. He has been Chair of Communications, Chair of Admissions and Formation, and of the Nominating Committee. He serves on the Executive Committee.
Additionally, Tom served as the Illinois Area Chair from 2007 to 2013. Tom has participated in 8 Lourdes Pilgrimages and served as Team Captain on 5 of the Pilgrimages. He became a Knight in Obedience in 2012 and is a member of the Sub Priory of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Tom has served on the Catholic Charity Board of Advisors. He was President of the Chicago Chapter of Legatus from 2005-2008. He is recently retired and was the Managing Director of Reedy Industries.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Tom and his wife, Missy, a member of the Order, have two grown children and live in Naples, Florida.
Rory Kelleher, GCMOb
New York City Area, Member since 2004
Rory Kelleher was elected as Secretary in 2023. He has served on the Board of Councillors since 2020, chairs the By-Law/Legal Committee, serves on the Executive Committee and has previously served on the Finance and Area Support and Development Committees. He joined the Order in 2004 and became a Knight in Obedience in 2016.
Since 2004, Rory has served as a volunteer with other Order of Malta members at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in New York. He also volunteers at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick. He served as Area Co-Chair for New York City from 2008-2014 and currently serves as Co-Chair for the Area for Membership and Grants. He has participated with the Order in 9 Lourdes pilgrimages and a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of ArchCare, the continuing care community of the Archdiocese of New York. He was a Director of Catholic Guardian Services, a social service agency sponsored by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York from 2003-2018, including 10 years as Board Chair. He has served his Parish of St. Thomas More as Parish Council President, Chair of the Finance Council, Lector and Eucharistic Minister.
A graduate of Fordham College (BA) and Columbia University School of Law (JD), Rory has practiced law at major law firms in New York and London, and currently in individual practice, with a focus on corporate and equipment finance, leasing and securitization.
Rory and his wife Camille, a member of the Order, have three grown children and three grandchildren, and live in New York City.
Laure C. Aubuchon, DM
New York City Area, Member since 1997
Laure was elected to the Board of Councillors in 2019 where she currently chairs the Finance Committee and is on the Grants Committee. She has participated in 15 Lourdes pilgrimages. For the last seventeen years, Laure has served on the Lourdes Pilgrimage Medical Committee and is currently on the Strategic Planning Pilgrimage Committee.
Laure is a founding board member of Malta House in Norwalk, CT, a home for pregnant, homeless women and is on the leadership team for the current capital campaign to relocate and expand the capacity of Malta House.
Currently, she serves on the board of Catholic Charities of Fairfield County where she is on the Executive Committee, and in 2016, was the co- chair of the Capital Campaign for the New Covenant House in Stamford, CT, a program of Catholic Charities, where she is also on the Advisory Board. She was a trustee of Assumption College for 21 years. She is on the board of the W.E. Aubuchon Co., Inc, a family owned business started by her grandfather in 1908. For 8 years, Laure was a Eucharist Minister at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital.
A graduate of Smith College (BA), Boston College (MA) and Harvard University (MBA), Laure spent 19 years at W. R. Grace. Following 9/11, she joined the Bloomberg administration as head of International Business Development for New York City at the NYC Economic Development Corporation. She currently works in commercial real estate.
Anne G. Peach, DM
Florida – Naples Area, Member since 2016
Anne has served as a member of the Board of Councillors for the past four years, supporting a variety of committees. For the past two years she has chaired the grants committee and served as a board representative on Malta Human Services Foundation. Anne has served as a nurse volunteer on the Lourdes pilgrimage since 2009 and is a member of the Lourdes Medical Selection Committee. Anne is a nurse and youth chaperone each summer in Lourdes and is a member of Lourdes Hospitalite.
It was in 2004 that Anne was honored to be chosen as a “malade” with Hope Carter as her sponsor. Her pilgrimage to Lourdes was a life changing experience. Through the mentorship and encouragement by Hope and other members of the Order, Anne became involved first as a nurse volunteer and since 2016 as a Dame. She continues to travel annually to serve in Lourdes including this past summer. Most importantly, she believes in “Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum” – “Protect the Faith and Serve the Poor”.
Vice President and Partner in Future Vision Group II, LLC, Anne is a senior executive high reliability coach working with health care executives worldwide on improving patient safety, quality, culture, and engagement. She is former Chief Nursing Executive and hospital administrator for an eight-hospital health system.
Anne serves as an extraordinary eucharistic minister and minister of the sick at Holy Family Catholic Church in Orlando, FL.
She is a member and past club president in Rotary International. A volunteer at Give Kids the World in Kissimmee, FL, she welcomes Make a Wish families from around the world each week.
Anne and her husband of 46 years, Ken Peach, KM, have three sons and two granddaughters and live in Orlando, FL.
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