Board of Trustees

Laura D. Gates
SELC Board Chair
South Carolina
Trustee and former Board Chair, Wellesley College

Joel B. Adams, Jr.
North Carolina
Financial Advisor, Raymond James Financial Services

Dell S. Brooke
Alabama
Board Member and former Board Chair, Alabama Symphony Orchestra

Wendy B. Brown
Virginia
Founder, Center for Nonprofit Excellence; Co-founder, Community Investment Collaborative

Melvin T. Davis
North Carolina
Private Equity Professional

Laura B. Fjeld
North Carolina
Principal, Clear Voice Partners

Jeff M. Gleason
Virginia
President and Executive Director, Southern Environmental Law Center

James G. Hanes III
North Carolina
Owner/Manager, Senah Farm

Donald A. Holzworth
North Carolina
Executive in Residence & Adjunct Professor of Health Policy & Management, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

C. Grey McLean
Virginia
Director, Adiuvans Foundation; President, Albemarle Housing Improvement Program

Deaderick C. Montague
Tennessee
Writer; Capital Campaign Co-Chair, Chattanooga History Center

Jean C. Nelson
Tennessee
Land Trust for Tennessee Founder and Board Member Emeritus

Julie G. Price
Alabama
Sustainability Manager, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Board Member, Cahaba River Society & Freshwater Land Trust

John L.S. Simpkins
North Carolina
President of MDC; Former Vice President of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network and Former General Counsel for the US Agency for International Development

William H.Schlesinger
North Carolina
President Emeritus, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Heath P. Terry
New York
Managing Director, Third Point

C. Grey McLean
SELC Vice Board Chair
Virginia
Director, Adiuvans Foundation

Marcia A. Angle
North Carolina
Retired Public Health Physician

Cathy S. Brown
Tennessee
Secretary, Stewart Home School, Frankfort, KY

Marion A. Cowell, Jr.
North Carolina
Of Counsel, Kilpatrick Stockton, Charlotte Office; Former General Counsel, First Union

J. Stephen Dockery III
North Carolina
Managing Partner, Fidus Partners

Melanie P. Grinney
Alabama
Writer & Photographer; Board of Directors, Alabama Symphony Orchestra

Phyllis D. K. Hildreth
Tennessee
Vice President for Strategy and Institutional Advancement, American Baptist College

Deborah Kennedy Kennard
South Carolina
Former U.S. State Department Attorney focused on international environmental matters and former managing counsel for Mobil Oil Corporation; Board Member Spoleto Festival USA & WINGS

Allen L. McCallie
Tennessee
Partner, Miller & Martin

Edward M. Miller
Virginia
Chair, WestWind Investment Management

Charles W. Patrick, Jr.
South Carolina
Founding member, Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman

B. Clayton Rolader
Georgia
President and COO, Fuqua Capital Corp.

Zakiya A. Seymour
Georgia
Principal Management Consultant, Arcadis Water & Wastewater Business Advisory Services

Thomas F. Taft, Jr.
North Carolina
Chairman & CEO, Taft Family Ventures

William L. Want
South Carolina
Environmental Lawyer; Author, The Law of Wetlands Regulation