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Mary Thompson is a Trustee at the College of Saint Benedict. Mary was previously a Reporter for CNBC from May 2000 to July 2016. During their sixteen year career at CNBC, they covered a wide range of stories, from the financial crisis, to the Madoff Scandal, to Hurricane Katrina, to the implementation of the latest iteration of bank reform, the Dodd Frank Act.

As a general assignment reporter, they often described herself as a utility infielder. In addition to covering the banking and insurance beats, they were also CNBC's point person on executive compensation and created a series called "Where the Jobs Are," which looked at how companies in desperate need of skilled labor were working to fill the gap.

Mary backed up reporters at the New York Stock Exchange, the NYMEX, the Nasdaq and covered a number of economic stories.

After JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon testified before Congress on the firm's $6 billion dollar trading loss, they were the only reporter to whom they granted an interview. Dimon was one of a number of high profile CEOs they had one-on-one interviews with during their career at CNBC, the others including, among others, the top executives at Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, AIG and Procter and Gamble.

Her reporting on the Madoff scandal earned their the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for TV Breaking News. In 2005 they were part of a team that received a National

Mary Thompson has a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.