Board of Trustees
Fisk University
Board of Trustees
Fisk University is a cornerstone of excellence and is marked by its resilience and molded by its unyielding commitment to educate and produce some of the world's best scholars, leaders, and world-changers.
Board of Trustees provides effective oversight and strategy in concert with the president to steward a vibrant and progressive future for the campus. This structure provides for a clear, definitive, and orderly form of governance that is a best practice among institutions of higher education.
Trustees
Below you will find the names and bios of our board members
Frank L. Sims
Interim President
Corporate Vice President (ret.)
Cargill, Inc.,
Georgia
Juliette Pryor ’86, Esq.
Board Chair,
General Counsel
Albertsons Companies
Georgia
JoLinda Herring '85, Esq.
Chair, Development Committee
Executive Committee
Katherine Burnett
Faculty Representative
Marcus D. Cosby ’95, D.Min.
Senior Pastor,
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church,
Texas
David P. Crabtree
Executive Vice President
Brookside Properties, Inc.,
Tennessee
Frank Garrison
Director
M3-Brigade Acquisition Corp II
Tennessee
Lela Wingard Hughes ‘77
JPMorgan Chase Bank (ret.),
New Jersey
Callie Khouri
Writer/Producer/Director,
Tennessee
Stacey Garrett Koju, Esq.
Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Tennessee
Katie Marchetti
Independent Investor and Advisor
Tennessee
Roland Parrish
CEO, Parrish Restaurant Ltd.,
Texas
Surendra Ramanna
Chairman and CEO
TRC Worldwide Engineering, Inc.,
Tennessee
Ronald S. Safer, Esq.
Co-Managing Partner
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP,
Illinois
Kim Seymour, J.D. M.B.A
Etsy
Chief People Officer
New York
Nzinga Shaw
Global Chief DEI Officer
The Recording Academy|GRAMMYS
Frank Simmons '73
Marking by Zip, LLC,
Texas
Janine Smith '84, '87
Raytheon Technologies
Maryland
Edward M. Zimmerman, Esq.
Co-founder and Chair, Tech Group
Lowenstein Sandler
New York
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
Patricia Castles Meadows
Trustee Emerita
CPA & Co-Founder (ret.)
Williams, Crosslin, Sparks, and Vaden,
Tennessee
Robert W. Norton , Hon. D.H.L.
Trustee Emeritus
Sr. Vice President (ret.)
Pfizer, Inc.,
South Carolina