Board of Trustees
Laura D. Gates
SELC Board Chair; Trustee and former Board Chair, Wellesley College
South Carolina
C. Grey McLean
SELC Board Vice Chair; Director, Adiuvans Foundation
Virginia
Joel B. Adams, Jr.
Retired Financial Advisor, Raymond James Financial Services
North Carolina
Marcia A. Angle
Preventive Medicine Physician
North Carolina
Dell S. Brooke
Board Member and former Board Chair, Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Alabama
Wendy B. Brown
Founder, Center for Nonprofit Excellence; Co-founder, Community Investment Collaborative
Virginia
Cathy S. Brown
Secretary, Stewart Home School, Frankfort, KY
Tennessee
Melvin T. Davis
Private Equity Professional
North Carolina
J. Stephen Dockery III
Managing Partner, Fidus Partners
North Carolina
Laura B. Fjeld
Retired Attorney
Former Vice President & General Counsel, University of North Carolina System
North Carolina
DJ Gerken
President and Executive Director
Melanie P. Grinney
Writer & Photographer; Board of Directors, Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Alabama
James G. Hanes III
Owner/Operator, Senah Farm
North Carolina
Phyllis D. K. Hildreth
Vice President for Strategy and Institutional Advancement, American Baptist College
Tennessee
Donald A. Holzworth
Executive in Residence & Adjunct Professor of Health Policy & Management, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
North Carolina
Deborah Kennedy Kennard
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
South Carolina
Allen L. McCallie
Partner, Miller & Martin
Tennessee
Edward M. Miller
Chair, WestWind Investment Management
Virginia
Deaderick C. Montague
First President of Lyndhurst Foundation
Co-founder, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Tennessee
Jean C. Nelson
Land Trust for Tennessee Founder and Board Member Emeritus
Tennessee
Charles W. Patrick, Jr.
Of Counsel and Founding Member, Rogers, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman
South Carolina
Julie G. Price
Assistant Professor Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Alabama
B. Clayton Rolader
President and COO, Fuqua Capital Corp.
Georgia
William H. Schlesinger
President Emeritus, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
North Carolina
Zakiya A. Seymour
Vice President & National Practice Lead of Workforce & Business Transformation North America
Arcadis Global Design & Consultancy Firm
Georgia
John L.S. Simpkins
President of MDC; Former Vice President of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network and Former General Counsel for the US Agency for International Development
North Carolina
Thomas F. Taft, Jr.
Chairman, Taft Family Ventures
Retired Senior Partner Taft, Taft & Haigler
South Carolina
Heath P. Terry
Managing Director, Third Point
New York
William L. Want
Environmental Lawyer; Author, The Law of Wetlands Regulation