Sister Lourdes Leal, CDP, is currently serving on the CDP Leadership Team. A native of San Antonio and alum of Providence Catholic School and Our Lady of the Lake University, she professed vows in the Congregation on June 22, 1961. She has served in ministry in San Antonio in the Northwest Deanery, in Mexico, the Rio Grande Valley and at Our Lady of the Lake University. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts in Speech Pathology from OLLU and her Ph.D. in Communications Disorders from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to 2017, she previously served on the General Council from 1993-1999 and from 2011-2017. She currently serves on the OLLU Board of Trustees.