Centre College is controlled by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees. The trustees are divided into six annual classes of not more than six persons. The presiding officer of the Board of Trustees is the chair of the Board, elected annually. The president of the College is the executive officer of the Board and the chief executive officer of the College.
Officers of the Board of Trustees
Mark E. Nunnelly: Chair of the Board
James C. Seabury, III: Vice Chair of the Board
Crit Luallen: Secretary of the Board
John A. Roush: President of the College
Yvonne York Morley: Assistant Secretary of the Board
Trustees
Class Of 2020
Jess Correll
President and Chairman, First Southern Bancorp, Inc.
Stanford, Kentucky
Craig M. Hille
Managing Director, Juggernaut Capital Partners
Cabin John, Maryland
Lea Stromire Johnson
Attorney, Moore and VanAllen
Charlotte, North Carolina
Daryll W. Martin
President, Percipient Resources, Inc.
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Thomas H. Meeker
President and CEO, Churchill Downs Inc., Retired
Louisville, Kentucky
Amul R. Thapar
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for Sixth District
Covington, Kentucky
Class Of 2021
Thomas R. Baeker
Owner and Founder, Ambrabev, LLC
Danville, Kentucky
Jennie Peaslack Carlson
Executive Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer, U.S. Bank, Retired
Edina, Minnesota
Crit Luallen
Former Lieutenant Governor, Commonwealth of Kentucky
Frankfort, Kentucky
John H. Newman
Senior Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, Retired
Naples, Florida
James C. Seabury, III
CEO, Enterprise Solutions
Nashville, Tennessee
James A. Smith
Innovation Consultant
Saint Charles, Illinois
Class Of 2022
Greg W. Caudill
CEO, Farmers National Bank
Danville, Kentucky
Paul W. Chellgren
Operating Partner, Snow Phipps Group, LLC
Villa Hills, Kentucky
Barb Emler
Physician and Pediatric Dentist
Lexington, Kentucky
Beth P. Klein
Officer, Klein Family Foundation
Louisville, Kentucky
Jeffrey L. Mackin
President, Interlock Industries, Inc.
Prospect, Kentucky
Eddy Roberts Jr.
State President, Bell South, Retired
Louisville, Kentucky
Class Of 2023
John R. Barton
Physician
Lexington, Kentucky
Rutheford B. Campbell
Professor of Law, University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Sandra Frazier
CEO/Managing Member, Tandem Public Relations
Louisville, Kentucky
Mark E. Nunnelly
Chairman, AVALT Holdings and Special Limited Partner, Bain Capital
Dover, Massachusetts
Peggy Purdom Patterson
U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky, Retired
Prospect, Kentucky
George W. Privett, Jr.
Physician, Retired
Lexington, Kentucky
Class Of 2024
Anita M. Britton
Attorney, Britton Johnson, PLLC
Versailles, Kentucky
Sheila A. Burks
Corporate Counsel, OFS Fitel, LLC
Alpharetta, Georgia
Angie M. Evans
Manager, Corporate Responsibility, LG&E and KU Energy, LLC
Louisville, Kentucky
Kenneth J. Mardick
President, M3 Resources USA
Birmingham, Alabama
T. Richard Riney
Executive Vice President, CAO and General Counsel, Ventas, Inc.
Louisville, Kentucky
Lee D. Tatum
President, Kentucky Owl Bourbon
Anchorage, Kentucky
Class Of 2025
Benjamin J. Beaton
Squire Patton Boggs
Louisville, Kentucky
William S. Bowmer III
Managing Director, Lincoln International, LLC
Palo Alto, California
Robert L. Elliott
Partner, Houlihan Elliott Hinkle Dispute Resolution, PLLC, Retired
Georgetown, Kentucky
G. Watts Humphrey Jr.
President, GWH Holdings, Inc., Retired
Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Tao Le
Physician
Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Brian Mefford
Executive Director, Office of Entrepreneurship, Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
Alvaton, Kentucky
Life Trustees
Robert T. Brockman
CEO and Chairman, The Reynolds and Reynolds Company
Houston, Texas
J. David Grissom
Chairman, Mayfair Capital
Louisville, Kentucky
Randal B. Kell
President and CEO, The Mark Winkler Company
Annapolis, Maryland
Nelson D. Rodes Jr.
Chairman of the Board, Farmers National Bank of Danville, Retired
Louisville, Kentucky
Trustees Emeriti
Joanne K. Duncan
Inez, Kentucky
Richard L. Frymire
Madisonville, Kentucky
Elizabeth T. Kennan
Danville, Kentucky
Charles J. Luellen
Austin, Texas
Joseph H. Patterson
Charlotte, North Carolina
Lillian H. Press
Lexington, Kentucky
James M. Ratcliffe
Louisville, Kentucky
James L. Rogers, III
Vero Beach, Florida
James D. Rouse
Versailles, Kentucky
Jane L. Stevenson
Owensboro, Kentucky
Margaret A. Stroup
Melbourne, Florida
Kevin D. Taylor
Madison, Wisconsin