Mrs. Colaianni is a 1965 graduate of Cardinal Mooney and is currently the Nursing Director of the Mahoning County District Board of Health. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cardinal Mooney Alumni Association and has served as both as President and Vice-President of the Association. Mrs. Colaianni has served as chairman of the school’s Career Day event for seven years and worked as a volunteer for The Cardinal Challenge, the Alumni Association’s annual fundraising campaign. A state speech champion in 1965, she has served as a speech judge for twenty-seven years and has coached speech at Mooney for the past ten years. 

As a member of St. Luke parish, Mrs. Colaianni is a member and past president of the Parish Council. She has served on the New Church Building Committee and Finance Committee and currently serves as a Lector and Eucharistic Minister at the parish. 

She graduated from Carlow College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing Science and also earned a Master of Science degree in Community Health Nursing from Case Western Reserve University. She is a member of the Ohio and American Public Health Associations and serves on the boards of the Eastern Ohio Area Health Education Network, Turning Point Counseling Services, and Forum Health Diabetes Help Advisory Committee. Mooney principal, Sr. Jane Marie Kudlacz noted that “Diana can always find time in her busy schedule to help the students of Cardinal Mooney and at the same time, she is an effective representative in the community for the values that she learned while a student here.”

Mrs. Colaianni and her husband, Dean, are the parents of four children: David, Steven, Maria and Robert, all are Cardinal Mooney graduates.