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