Board of Trustees

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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

Laverne Lewis Gaskins

Attorney
Law Office Of Laverne Lewis Gaskins P.C
Augusta, GA
Term: 2022 - 2025

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

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

Hopkins

Ronnie Hopkins, Ph.D.

President
Voorhees University
Denmark, South Carolina

Rev. Daniel Wagner

Vicar
St. Sugustine of Canterbury
Aiken, South Carolina

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