Donna (Mulhern) Woodruff was named Associate Director of Athletics for Administration and Student-Athlete Development/Senior Woman Administrator at Stony Brook in April of 2004. On July 20, 2005, she was promoted to Senior Associate Director of Athletics/SWA. A member of the Stony Brook Athletics senior management team, she oversees several administrative units and staff including Athletic Communications, Compliance and Eligibility and Student-Athlete Development, while also supervising women's basketball, women's lacrosse and men's soccer.

Since her arrival at Stony Brook, she has also been named to the NCAA Certification Steering Committee, the Scholarship Coordinating Council, the Student Life Advisory Committee, the Undergraduate Recognition Committee, as well as the President's Five Year Plan Task Force on Multicampus Development. Woodruff has also been trained to serve as a University Diversity Fellow as a part of the President's initiative to address the goal of fostering and promoting positive cross cultural activities for the Stony Brook community. As an institutional SWA within the nine-member America East Conference, Woodruff was selected by her peers to serve a two-year term as the Chair of the SWA Committee (2008-2010). In that role, she serves as a member of the America East Athletic Director's Council.

Woodruff arrived at Stony Brook after serving for seven years as an athletic administrator at both Villanova University and the University of Pennsylvania. The former Director of Administrative Services for Athletics at Villanova, Woodruff represented its 24 teams on residence life, dining services and financial aid issues while coordinating all athletic camp operations. She was also responsible for the oversight of program operations for men's ice hockey, men's crew, men's volleyball, men's water polo and the athletic department equipment room. As a member of the compliance office staff, she was connected to all day-to-day operations and in charge of specific programs such as the NCAA Special Assistance Fund, the Student-Athlete Opportunity Fund and drug testing. During her tenure at Villanova, she spearheaded the Athletic Department Internship Program that supported 18 full-time interns.

Woodruff was also a member of the Villanova University Community Committee and leader of the Villanova Quality Enhancement team. She served on VU's NCAA Certification Steering Committee, the ECAC Field Hockey Selection Committee and as a representative at the first round of the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.

Prior to Villanova Woodruff spent four years as an athletic administrator at the University of Pennsylvania, serving as the contest scheduler for all 34 intercollegiate sports while creating and monitoring contest contracts for each sport. In addition, she collaborated on the coaches' yearly budget process and acted as the department's liaison between facilities and operations personnel, the athletic communications office and the associate athletic directors.

Woodruff began her career as an assistant field hockey coach at Penn in August of 1991. She stayed in that position for five years before assuming the dual role of assistant field hockey coach and athletic administrator. Along with her duties at Penn, from 1993-1996 she was a Regional Administrative Director for the U.S. Field Hockey Association where she was directly responsible for overseeing the USFHA Olympic Development Field Hockey program in Pennsylvania, the largest of 11 regions throughout the nation. She managed and organized over 650 athletes, 80 coaches, 15 athletic trainers and 15 site directors for participation in six months of training sessions following a curriculum developed by the United States National Coaching Staff.

Woodruff earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania where she earned All-America status as a field hockey player. She helped lead her team to the Final Four of the 1988 NCAA Championship and remains the only player in school history to be named to the NCAA All-Tournament team. She also was an All-Ivy and Regional All-America pick in lacrosse. She later went on to receive her Master of Science degree in education in 2000 also from the University of Pennsylvania.