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.

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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

Patricia Castles Meadows

Board Vice-Chair
CPA & Co-Founder (ret.)
Williams, Crosslin, Sparks, and Vaden,
Tennessee

JoLinda Herring '85, Esq.

Chair, Development Committee
Executive Committee

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

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

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

Richard Wallace

Vice President
Student Government Association

Saraya Ashley

President
Student Government Association