Paige Ernste
Regional Account Executive at Baylor GeneticsPaige Ernste is a human genetics expert specializing in pediatric rare disease. Paige currently works for Baylor Genetics as a Regional Account Executive where she helps neurologists, geneticists, and genetic counselors leverage cutting edge genetic testing in order to help families identify genetic abnormalities in their children and identify treatment options for them.
Prior to joining the genetic testing industry, she worked as a genetic counselor at Vanderbilt Medical Center in their genomic medicine division. She graduated with a degree in Biochemistry from Drake University and earned her Master of Science in Human Genetics from Sarah Lawrence College.
Paige has lived in Nashville for more than five years and is a parishioner at St. Ann Catholic Church. Paige is actively involved in the parish and currently leads St. Ann’s hospitality committee. In her free time Paige enjoys Pilates, baking, and spending time with her handsome, smart, funny, kind, generous, handsome, tall, strong, and handsome fiancé who definitely did not write this bio.
Mark Robinson
All American Sign CompanyA Nashville native, Mark Robinson grew up on the west side of town. He attended St. Henry’s School and Montgomery Bell Academy before heading East to earn his Bachelors in Business from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
After graduating, he moved back to Nashville, got married, and started working in the commercial sign industry in 1988 — specializing in fleet/vehicle graphics. He had a brief stint in construction and security system sales in the mid 90s, then went back to commercial signs. As well as taking on paper routes for the Tennessean and the Wall Street Journal through the 90s.
In 2000, he started his own commercial sign business, All American Sign Company. Which he still owns and runs today.
Over the years in the diocese, Mark has served on the Assumption Parish Council for 5+ years, coached numerous parochial league basketball teams, been a Fraternus Captain, and is a member of Dominican Dads.
Mark and his wife Jeanne have 6 kids, 5 grandchildren, and 1 invincible bunny rabbit, Oreo. They attend St. Mary’s of the Seven Sorrows downtown. Together, they enjoy hiking in the Smokies at their Townsend cabin or in any National Park their Airstream will take them.
Fr. Luke Wilgenbusch
Father Luke J. Wilgenbusch, STL is a priest of the Diocese of Nashville. The youngest
of four children, Fr. Wilgenbusch grew up in the Nashville area and attended St. Edward
School and Father Ryan High School. After graduating, he completed one year of college
at the University of Notre Dame before deciding to follow God’s call to discern a
vocation to the priesthood.
In 2015, Fr. Wilgenbusch graduated from the Pontifical College Josephinum with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and the Humanities. He then attended the Pontifical North American College in Rome, receiving a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. On May 25th, 2019 Fr. Wilgenbusch was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of the Incarnation by the Most Reverend J. Mark Spalding.
After ordination, Fr. Wilgenbusch returned to Rome to complete further studies and received a License in Sacred Theology from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas. His license thesis work was on the doctrine of purgatory, and he wrote a book on the same topic entitled Saved as Through Fire: A Thomistic Account of Purgatory, Satisfaction, and Temporal Punishment that was published by Emmaus Academic in the fall of 2023.
Upon returning to the Diocese, Fr. Wilgenbusch served for two years as Parochial Vicar
at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Hendersonville, TN and as Associate Director
of Vocations. In 2022 he was assigned to serve as the Director of Vocations.
Beginning in the summer of 2023, Fr. Wilgenbusch has been assigned to undertake studies for the License in Canon Law (JCL) at the Catholic University of America in their summer program.