People: Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PEI.N)

Ms. Dorrit J. Bern is Independent Trustee of Pennsylvania R.E.I.T. She is Fritzky Leadership Chair, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, from 2009 to 2010. Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Charming Shoppes, Inc., a multichannel specialty women’s apparel retailer, from 1997 to 2008, and Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 1995 to 1997. Group Vice President, women’s apparel and home furnishings, and other positions, Sears, Roebuck & Co., from 1987 to 1995. Merchandising positions at The Bon Marche and Joske’s, divisions of Allied Department Stores, from 1974 to 1987. Former director, OfficeMax Incorporated, and a member of its audit and compensation committees, from 2006 to 2011. Former director of Southern Company. Member of The Fashion Group International and The Committee of 200, an association of America’s women business leaders. Former member of the board of the National Retail Federation. Member of the board of the Jay H. Baker Retail Initiative at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Instructor for the Wharton School’s continuing education program for corporate board members.