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
Jacquelyn Denton Alton
President
Almeda Travel
Texas
Barbara Landers Bowles
Trustee Emerita
CEO (ret.)
The Kenwood Group
Illinois
Shirley Brown, Ph.D.
Faculty Representative
Vice Provost
Sociology Professor
Tennessee
Linda Brown Coleman, Ph.D.
CEO
R & L Group, Inc.
Texas
Marcus D. Cosby, Ph. D.
Senior Pastor
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
Texas
David P. Crabtree
Executive Vice President
Brookside Properties, Inc.
Tennessee
Mike Curb, J.D.
Trustee Emeritus
Chairman
Curb Records
Tennessee
Gina R. Davis, Esq.
Chair
General Alumni Association of Fisk University, Inc.
Illinois
Patty Litton Delony
Principal (ret.)
Delony Associates, Inc.
Illinois
Phyllis Freeman, Ph.D.
Faculty Representative
Biology Professor
Tennessee
Stacey Garrett Koju, Esq.
Corporate Secretary
Tennessee
Lela Wingard Hughes
JPMorgan Chase Bank (ret.)
New Jersey
Anita Estell, Esq.
President & CEO
Estell Group
District of Columbia
Callie Khouri
Writer/Producer/Director
Tennessee
Amanda Griscom Little
Journalist and Writer-in-Residence
Vanderbilt University
Tennessee
Cynthia R. McIntyre, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President
Council on Competitiveness
District of Columbia
Leatrice B. McKissack
Hon. D.H.L.
Trustee Emerita
CEO (ret)
McKissack & McKissack
Tennessee
Gregory S. Nixon, Esq.
Chief Administrative Officer and
Chief Legal Officer
DynCorp Int.
Virginia
Kendall P. Norris
Director
Deloitte
Tennessee
Robert W. Norton
Hon. D. H. L.
Sr. Vice President (ret.)
Pfizer, Inc.
South Carolina
Juliette Pryor, Esq.
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Cox Enterprises, Inc
Georgia
Surendra Ramanna
Chairman and CEO
TRC Worldwide Engineering, Inc.
Tennessee
Benjamin R. Rechter
Hon. D. H. L.
Trustee Emeritus
President
Rogers Group Investment, Inc
Tennessee
Kevin D. Rome, Sr.
President
Georgia
Ronald S. Safer, Esq.
Co-Managing Partner
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
Illinois
Frank Simmons '73
Marketing by Zip, LLC.
Texas
Cal Turner, Jr.
Trustee Emeritus
Turner Family Foundation
Tennessee
Rashaun L. Williams
General Partner
MVP ALL-STAR Fund LLC
Manhattan Venture Partners
California