Board of Trustees

Frank L. Sims
Board Chair
Corporate Vice President (ret.)
Cargill, Inc., Georgia

Patricia Castles Meadows
Board Vice Chair
President, Dixie Graphics, Inc.
Tennessee

Kevin D. Rome, Sr., Ph.D.
President, Fisk University
Tennessee

Linda Brown Coleman ’70, Ph.D.
CEO, R & L Group, Inc.
Texas

Marcus D. Cosby ’95, D.Min.
Senior Pastor
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
Texas

David P. Crabtree
Executive Vice President
Brookside Properties, Inc.
Tennessee

Gina R. Davis ‘82, Esq.
Chair, General Alumni Association of Fisk University, Inc.
Illinois

Lela Wingard Hughes ‘77
JPMorgan Chase Bank (ret.)
New Jersey

Callie Khouri
Writer/Producer/Director
Tennessee

Amanda Griscom Little
Journalist and Writer-in-Residence
Vanderbilt University
Tennessee

Stafford Cargill
Faculty Representative
Faculty Assembly Chair

Sydnei Patton
Student Representative
SGA President

Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr. ’69, Ph.D.
Faculty Representative
Tennessee

Kendall P. Norris
CEO, Global Leadership Forum
Missouri

Robert W. Norton , Hon. D.H.L.
Sr. Vice President (ret.)
Pfizer, Inc., South Carolina

Roland Parrish
CEO, Parrish Restaurant Ltd.
Texas

Juliette Pryor, Esq. ’86
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Cox Enterprises, Inc., Georgia

Surendra Ramanna
Chairman and CEO
TRC Worldwide Engineering, Inc.
Tennessee

Ronald S. Safer, Esq.
Co-Managing Partner
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
Illinois

Frank Simmons '73
Marketing by Zip, LLC.
Texas

EMERITUS TRUSTEES

Barbara Landers Bowles ‘68
Trustee Emerita
CEO (ret.) The Kenwood Group
Illinois

Mike Curb, J.D.
Trustee Emeritus
Chairman, Curb Records
Tennessee

Leatrice B. McKissack ’51,Hon. D.H.L.
Trustee Emerita
CEO (ret) McKissack & McKissack
Tennessee

Benjamin R. Rechter, Hon. D.H L.
Trustee Emeritus
President, Rogers Group Invest., Inc.
Tennessee

Cal Turner, Jr.
Trustee Emeritus
Turner Family Foundation
Tennessee