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
Board Chair
Corporate Vice President (ret.)
Cargill, Inc.,
Georgia
Patricia Castles Meadows
Board Vice-Chair
CPA & Co-Founder (ret.)
Williams, Crosslin, Sparks, and Vaden,
Tennessee
Vann R. Newkirk, Sr. Ph.D
18th University President
Marcus D. Cosby ’95, D.Min.
Senior Pastor,
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church,
Texas
David P. Crabtree
Executive Vice President
Brookside Properties, Inc.,
Tennessee
Holly Hamby
Faculty Representative
JoLinda Herring '85, Esq.
Chair, Development Committee
Executive Committee
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
Steven Morgan, Ph.D.
Faculty Representative
Faculty Assembly Chair
Tennessee
Robert W. Norton , Hon. D.H.L.
Sr. Vice President (ret.)
Pfizer, Inc.,
South Carolina
Roland Parrish
CEO, Parrish Restaurant Ltd.,
Texas
Juliette Pryor ’86, Esq.
Executive Vice President,
General Counsel
Albertsons Companies
Georgia
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, Esq.
WW
Cheif People Officer
New York
Nzinga Shaw
President
TurnkeyZRG
Georgia
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
Richard Wallace
Vice President
Student Government Association
Saraya Ashley
President
Student Government Association
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