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

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

Interim 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
Vivian Iloabuchi

Student Representative,
Class of '20
Vice President,
Student Government Association
Nigeria
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

Andreas Nelson

Student Representative
Class of '20
President,
Student Government Association
Illinois
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.
Nzinga Shaw
Frank Simmons '73

Marking by Zip, LLC,
Texas

Janine Smith '84, '87

Raytheon Technologies
Maryland
Edward M. Zimmerman, Esq.