Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees Members & Bios (Current Term)
David Miller ‘84, Chair
Co-Founder / Chief Operating Officer
Our Weekly
Los Angeles, California
Term: 2020 – 2023
Traci Young-Cooper, Ph.D., Vice Chair
Director
Richland School District One
Columbia, South Carolina
Term: 2022 – 2025
Rev. James Williams ‘71, M.Ed, M.Div, D.Min., Treasurer
(Retired) Vice President of Student Affairs
Tri County Technical College
Senior Pastor
Easley Union Missionary Baptist Church
Easley, South Carolina
Term: 2022 – 2025
Reverend Calhoun Walpole, Secretary
The Episcopal Church in South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Arturo Chavez, AIA, LEEP AP
Senior Principal | Architect
Houston, Texas
Term: 2020 - 2023
Reverend Sam Davis ‘79
Pastor, Beulah Grove Baptist Church
Augusta, Georgia
Term: 2020 – 2023
Jerome Geathers ‘72
CEO
Geathers Enterprises, Inc.
Huntsville, North Carolina
Term: 2021 – 2024
LaTonya Gillespie-Johnson, DDS ‘09
Owner
Southern Pearl Dentistry
College Park, Georgia
Term: 2021 – 2024
Solomon Jackson, Jr., L.H.D, D.D.
Philanthropist
Pastor/Founder of Solomon’s Temple
Columbia, South Carolina
Term: 2022 – 2025
John Loveday
Vice President of Innovation and Growth
Rhodes Branding
Columbia, South Carolina
Term: 2022 – 2025
Dan Martin ‘77
Agency Owner
Dan Martin Agency / Allstate Insurance Company
Charleston, South Carolina
Term: 2020 – 2023
Nathaniel Miller
Interim Director, Department of Public Works
Department of Transportation,
Columbia, South Carolina
Term: 2022 - 2025
Linda Flowers McCullough ‘76
President, Voorhees University National Alumni Association
(Retired) Educator, Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta, Georgia
Term: 2022 – 2024
Scott McGregor
Senior Diversity and Inclusion Leader
Cisco Systems
Durham, NC
Term: 2022 - 2025
Michelle Meekins ‘74, Ph.D.
(Retired) Assistant Superintendent for School Leadership
Elementary Schools Group Two
Greenville, South Carolina
Term: 2021 – 2024
Samuel Ntewusu, Ph.D.
Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana
Legon-Accra, Ghana
Term: 2022 – 2025
Fulton Porter, MD
Physician
Flossmoor, Illinois
Term: 2022 – 2023
Sumiyyah Rasheed
CEO
SWH Apparel, LLC
Decatur, Georgia
Term: 2021 – 2024
Leslie Simpson
Attorney
South Carolina Assoc of Counties
Columbia, South Carolina
Term: 2022 – 2025
Leah Taylor ‘64
(Retired) Program Coordinator
Howard University
Denmark, South Carolina
Term: 2022 – 2023
Kevin Voorhees Carroll
Real Estate Advisor
Colliers
Los Angles California
Term: 2022 - 2025
Laverne Lewis Gaskins
Attorney
Law Office Of Laverne Lewis Gaskins P.C
Augusta, GA
Term: 2022 - 2025
Trustee Representatives
Tywana Chenault Hemby ‘00, Ph.D.
Faculty Representative
President, Voorhees University Faculty Senate
Denmark, South Carolina
Simya Levine
President, Voorhees University
Student Government Association
Denmark, South Carolina
Ex-Officio Members
Ronnie Hopkins, Ph.D.
President
Voorhees University
Denmark, South Carolina
Rev. Daniel Wagner
Vicar
St. Sugustine of Canterbury
Aiken, South Carolina
