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Board of Directors

Board Officers (FY2007)

Name

Title Location
Margaret "Tog" Newman
Chair
Former Chair, North Carolina Arts Council Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
Todd Parker Lowe
Vice Chair
President, Parthenon LLC Louisville, Kentucky
Pam Breaux
Vice Chair
Assistant Secretary,
Louisiana Office of Cultural Development
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Patrick R. VanHuss
Vice Chair
Arts Advocate Columbia, South Carolina
Scott Shanklin-Peterson
Secretary
Director, Arts Management Program & Associate Professor, School of the Arts College of Charleston Kaiwah Island, South Carolina
Richard Ranta, Ph.D.
Treasurer
Dean of College of Communications and Fine Arts,
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

 

Board Members

Name

Title Location

Betsy Baker

Former Interim Executive Director,
Southern Arts Federation

Atlanta, Georgia

Rich Boyd

Executive Director,
Tennessee Arts Commission

Nashville, Tennessee

Jim Clinton

Executive Director,
Southern Growth Policies Board

Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina

Jeffrey Dunn

Attorney-at-Law

Jacksonville, Florida

Matt Echols

Director, State Government Relations Department, Coca-Cola Company North America

Atlanta, Georgia

Al Head

Executive Director,
Alabama State Council on the Arts

Montgomery, Alabama

Veronique Le Melle

Executive Director,
Louisiana Division of the Arts

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Lori Meadows

Executive Director, Kentucky Arts Council

Frankfort, Kentucky

Dr. Margaret S. Mertz

Executive Director,
Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts

Winston- Salem,
North Carolina

Gloria Moody

President,
Moody Foundation

Birmingham, Alabama

Jean Moore

Retired Director of Division of Languages & Communication,
Northwest Mississippi Community College

Coldwater, Mississippi

William Maurice Nix

Vice President of Marketing and Government Affairs, Palm Beach County Cultural Council

Palm Beach, Florida

Mary Regan

Executive Director,
North Carolina Arts Council

Raleigh, North Carolina

Jan Selman

Executive Director,
Arts Leadership League of GA-ALL-GA

Decatur, Georgia

Sandy Shaughnessy

Executive Director,
Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs

Tallahassee, Florida

Suzette Surkamer, Immediate Past Chair

Executive Director,
South Carolina Arts Commission

Columbia, South Carolina

Hellena Tidwell

Arts Administrator and Volunteer

Atlanta, Georgia

Susan S. Weiner

Executive Director,
Georgia Council for the Arts

Atlanta, Georgia

Malcolm White

Executive Director,
Mississippi Arts Commission

Jackson, Mississippi