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

South Carolina