Spelman College Board of Trustees
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The board provides strategic leadership to the College by employing its members' expertise in everything from finance and international affairs to philanthropy and science.
Our responsibilities
A trustee acts as a member of the governing board of Spelman College which is responsible for basic oversight and governance of the institution including election of the President of the College; basic educational and fiscal policy; the granting of degrees; and promotion and tenure of faculty based on the recommendation of the President. The Board’s authority as a governing body is set forth in the Bylaws and is not managerial or operational in nature. Individual trustees have no authority independent of the Board.
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Cathy Daniels
Chief of Staff and Secretary of the College
Ray Galloway
Clerk of the Board of Trustees and Assistant
to the Secretary of the College
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Meet the Board
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| Gwendolyn Adams Norton
B.A., College of William and Mary
Executive Program, Louisiana State University,
Graduate School of Banking of the South
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2008
City of Residence:
New York, New York |
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| Claire “Yum” Arnold
CEO, Leapfrog Services
B.A., Mary Baldwin College
Honorary Doctorate, Mary Baldwin College
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2008
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Theodore Aronson
Founder, Aronson+Johnson+Ortiz
B.S., University of Pennsylvania,
The Wharton School of Business,
M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania,
The Wharton School of Business
Vice Chair of the Board
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2004
City of Residence:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Aurelia “Rea” Brazeal, C’65
Foreign Service Officer (retired)
B.A., Spelman College
Master’s Degree,
Columbia University
Advanced Study, JFK School, Harvard University
Honorary Doctorate,
Spelman College
Spelman College Board of Trustees: First Elected in 1989
City of Residence:
Washington, D.C.
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| Rosalind G. Brewer C’84
Division President-Southeast Operations,
Wal-Mart Stores U.S.
B.S, Spelman College
Advanced Management Program, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business
Vice Chair and Secretary
of the Board
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2006
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Janine Brown
Chair, Alston & Bird’s Global Strategies Group
B.A., University of Michigan
Jurist Doctorate, Duke University
Chair, Board Affairs Committee
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2008
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia
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| Stuart Burgdoerfer
Chief Financial Officer, Limited Brands
B.A., Indiana University
M.B.A., Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2006;
Chair of the Audit Committee
City of Residence:
Columbus, Ohio |
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| Kimberly B. Davis, C'81
President, JPMorgan Chase Foundation
B.A., Spelman College
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2008
City of Residence:
New Rochelle, New York |
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| Jerri DeVard, *C'79
B.A., Spelman College
M.B.A, Clark Atlanta University
Vice Chair and Chair-Elect of the Board
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2005
City of Residence:
New York, New York |
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| Evelynn Hammonds, Ph.D., C'76
Dean, Harvard College
B.S., Spelman College
B.E.E., Georgia Institute of Technology
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Harvard University | Honorary Degree, Spelman
Chair, Faculty Affairs & Educational Policy Committee Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2008
City of Residence:
Cambridge, MA |
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| Rose Harris Johnson *C'57
B.A., Spelman College
M.Ed., National College of Education
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2005
City of Residence:
Evanston, Illinois
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| Yvonne R. Jackson*C'70
President, BeecherJackson
B.A., Spelman College
Management Development Certificate, Harvard University Business School
Chair of the Board
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 1996
City of Residence:
Miami, Florida
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| Terry L. Jones
Managing General Partner, Syncom Venture Partners
B.S., Trinity College
Master’s Degree, George Washington University
M.B.A., Harvard University
Chair, Buildings and Grounds Committee
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2003
City of Residence:
Washington, DC
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| Susan A. McLaughlin
President/CEO of Vick Park Associates
B.S., University of Nebraska Chair, Human Resources Committee
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2002
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia
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| Cynthia Neal Spence, C'78
Associate Professor, Spelman College
B.A., Spelman College
Master’s Degree and Ph.D., Rutgers University
Certificate, Management and Leadership in Education, Harvard University
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2009
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia
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| Vicki R. Palmer
B.A., Rhodes College
M.B.A., University of Memphis
Honorary Doctorate, Cambridge College
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 1995
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia
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| Anne Eleanor Roosevelt
Enterprise Wide Leader, The Boeing Company
B.A., Stanford University
Master’s Degree, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair, Student Affairs Committee
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2002
City of Residence:
Chicago, Illinois
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| Lovette Twyman Russell, C'83
Community Advocate and Volunteer
B.A., Spelman College
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2009
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia
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| Bradley T. Sheares, Ph.D.
B.S., Fisk University
Ph.D., Perdue University
National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow
Lucille P. Markey Scholar at the Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chair, Audit, Budget and Finance Committee
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2004
City of Residence:
Washington, D.C.
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| Ronda Stryker
Director, Stryker Corporation
B.A., University of Northern Colorado
Master’s Degree, Western Michigan University
Vice Chair of the Board
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 1997
City of Residence:
Portage, Michigan
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| Beverly Daniel Tatum
President, Spelman College
B.A., Wesleyan University
Master’s Degree, Hartford Seminary
Master’s Degree and Ph.D., University of Michigan
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Ex Officio
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Kathy N. Waller
Vice President and Chief of Internal Audit, The Coca-Cola Company
B.A., University of Rochester
M.B.A., William E. Simon School of Business Administration, University of Rochester
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2009
City of Residence:
Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Ph.D., C'96
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern
University
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
B.A., Spelman College
Master’s and Ph.D., Harvard University
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 2009
City of Residence:
Evanston, Illinois
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| Christina A. Whatley, 2011
Junior, Spelman College
Spelman College Board of Trustees
Student Trustee:
Elected in 2008
City of Residence:
Washington, D.C. |
Representatives:
Deidra L. Fryer, C’8, NAASC President
Mark Maloney Faculty Council President
Morgan Pierce, C’2010 SSGA President
Life Trustees:
Laura Chasin
Peggy Dulany, Ed.D.
Marian Wright Edelman, Esq., C’60
Russell Edgerton, Ph.D.
Robert Holland, Jr.
Donald L. Hollowell, Esq.
June Gary Hopps, Ph.D., C’60
Elizabeth McCormack, Ph.D.
G.G. Michelson
Mabel Smythe-Haith, Ph.D., C’37
Carolyn D. Yancey
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