UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees select 61 new members for the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Visitors

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees selected 61 alumni and friends to serve on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Visitors for a four-year term starting July 1, 2023.  

Selected members serve as ambassadors to inform their communities about the University’s priorities and, in turn, educate the University on how it can best serve communities around the world. The board is comprised of more than 200 members across the country who actively engage and assist the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz. Members also offer their professional expertise and experience while serving on one or more of five subcommittees. In that capacity, members partner with Honors Carolina to recruit top-tier students to Carolina, mentor current students as they navigate their transition to the workforce and respond to the need for ongoing communication with local, state and federal leaders.    

Jane Ellison of Wilmington, North Carolina, will serve as chair with Alge Crumpler of Atlanta, Ga., as vice chair. Jesse Cureton of Charlotte, North Carolina, will serve as the immediate past chair.  

The new members are alphabetically listed below by North Carolina counties and by locations outside of North Carolina.  

North Carolina 

Brunswick County: Michele Langford of Calabash   

Buncombe County: Leah Ashburn of Asheville 

Cumberland County: Samuel Bright of Fayetteville 

Durham County: Ralph Mensah and Lynn M. Perry of Durham 

Edgecombe County: William Leland of Tarboro  

Gaston County: Bradley Overcash of Belmont  

Guilford County: Jay Kenerly of Greensboro 

Johnston County: Thomas Lock of Smithfield 

Macon County: John Mitchener of Highlands 

Mecklenburg County: Dianne Bailey; Walter Bridgeman; Graham Cosper; Sinisa Haberle; E. Bradley Jones; Sanjib Mohanty; Elizabeth Murphy; Geoffrey Nance; and Brandi Newman; and McNeill Wester of Charlotte; and Patricia Cotham of Matthews 

New Hanover County: Lucien Ellison of Wilmington  

Orange County: Susan Allison; Mary M. Chandler; Sterling McCracken; and Barbara Senich of Chapel Hill 

Roberson County: Katherine Bosma of Lumberton  

Pitt County: Laura Jones of Greenville 

Union County: Gwenevere Parker of Monroe and Tejesh Patel of Waxhaw  

Wake County: Michael Ferguson; John Hardin; Sam Hayes; Taunya Land; Julia Lisella; Donna Preiss; R. Paul Rieker; William J Smith; and Virginia Webb of Raleigh; and Jenna Robinson of Cary 

California  

Dan Ashley of San Francisco 

Connecticut  

Tiernan Cavanna of Darien 

Florida 

Eugenia Donahoo of Jacksonville; Arthur Gallagher of Coral Gables; and Christopher Ruth of Delray Beach  

Georgia 

Christian Charnaux; Amol Naik; and Thomas Pulliam of Atlanta 

Maryland 

Andrew Tsui of Hyattsville      

Massachusetts  

Ilana Finley of Boston  

New Jersey 

Caroline Godfrey of Morristown and Rose Prey of Princeton  

New York  

Parke Chapman of Briarcliff Manor  

South Carolina  

Wesley Carter of Charleston and Linda Dahlgren of Greenville  

Tennessee  

Adam Cook of Knoxville  

Texas 

William Beckworth of Fort Worth; Henry Hamilton of Houston; and W. Michael Hyatt of Dallas 

Virginia  

Calvin Hall of Williamsburg and Daniel Morrison of Alexandria