Board of Trustees

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

 

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

Laura D. Gates
South Carolina

Trustee and former Board Chair, Wellesley College

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