Several new appointments have been made to the Division I Board of Directors and the Division I Management Council to fill vacancies that occurred at the end of the 2003 NCAA Convention.

The following five presidents were appointed to the Board: Clinton Bristow Jr., Alcorn State University; Peter Likins, University of Arizona; Mark Nordenberg, University of Pittsburgh; Carl Patton, Georgia State University; and R. Gerald Turner, Southern Methodist University. All five of the new members' terms will extend through the 2007 Convention.

In addition, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman joined the Board in October to replace Brit Kirwan, former president at Ohio State University. Coleman's term will extend through January 2005. Also, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, President John White joined the Board in July to serve a term that extends through January 2005.

Nine members were selected to serve four-year terms on the Management Council. They are Helen Grant, associate commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference; Ted Gumbart, associate commissioner of the Atlantic Sun Conference; Kate Hickey, assistant director of athletics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick; Scott Kretchmar, faculty athletics representative at Pennsylvania State University; Bev Lewis, director of women's athletics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Josephine Potuto, faculty athletics representative at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; John Romeo, faculty athletics representative at the University of South Florida; Robin Truiett, senior woman administrator at Loyola College (Maryland); and Robert Vowels, commissioner of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

In addition, three Council members -- R.C. Johnson, athletics director at the University of Memphis; Nancy Lyons, associate director of athletics at Northwestern University; and Dennis Thomas, commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, were selected during the last year to fill immediate vacancies.

Following are biographical sketches of the new members:

Board of Directors

Since becoming Alcorn State president in August 1995, Bristow has doubled the percentage of students attending graduate/professional school, improved retention and established a faculty research incentive program to enhance research in the life sciences, where Alcorn is a national leader in the production of African-American baccalaureate graduates.

Bristow is a member of the Board of Directors of National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, among other boards. He also is president of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. His research efforts have centered on the historical and contemporary development of management theory as it applies to profit and nonprofit organizations.

Before becoming president at Alcorn State, Bristow's administrative experiences included having served as president of the Chicago Board of Education, as dean of the College of Business at Chicago State University, and as vice-president at Olive-Harvey College in Chicago. Bristow holds bachelor's, juris doctor and doctorate degrees from Northwestern University and a master's in business administration from Governors State University in Illinois.

Coleman

Coleman is in her first year as president at Michigan. She is a professor of biological chemistry in the Michigan Medical School and professor of chemistry in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Coleman served as president of the University of Iowa for seven years before becoming Michigan's 13th president last August.

Coleman has served as provost and vice-president for academic affairs (1993-1995) at the University of New Mexico and as vice-chancellor for graduate studies and research (1992-1993) and associate provost and dean of research (1990-1992) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She served 19 years as a member of the biochemistry faculty and as a Cancer Center administrator at the University of Kentucky, where her research focused on the immune system and malignancies.

Her extensive leadership positions in higher education include serving on the Association of American Universities executive committee, the American Council on Education board of directors, and the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

She earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Grinnell College and her doctorate in biochemistry from North Carolina. She also did postdoctoral work at North Carolina and at the University of Texas at Austin.

Likins replaces University of Oregon President David Frohnmayer as the Pacific-10 Conference representative on the Board of Directors.

Likins became Arizona's 18th president in 1997. Before coming to Arizona, Likins was the CEO of Lehigh University for nearly 15 years and the provost of Columbia University, where he also served as professor and dean of the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Before his six years at Columbia, Likins was a 12-year member of the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Likins began his professional life as a development engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, where he was involved in the very early years of spacecraft development. In 1983, he was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and, in the following year, he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Stanford University, a master's degree in the same subject at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctoral degree in engineering mechanics at Stanford.

Nordenberg, chancellor and chief executive officer at Pittsburgh, replaces Francis Lawrence on the Board of Directors.

Nordenberg joined the Pittsburgh law faculty in 1977, then served as dean of the School of Law from 1985 until 1993. He also served the university as interim provost and senior vice-chancellor for academic affairs. He was elected as interim chancellor in 1995 and chancellor a year later.

In 1984, Nordenberg was the initial recipient of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award, an honor now presented annually by the Student Bar Association of the School of Law. In 1985, he was a recipient of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, recognizing teaching excellence university-wide.

He has published books, articles and reports in civil litigation, his area of scholarly specialty, and he has served as a member of both the United States Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Civil Procedural Rules Committee.

Nordenberg earned his bachelor's degree at Thiel College in 1970 and a juris doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1973.

Patton became president of Georgia State in July 1992 and has helped one of the nation's largest urban research universities become a vital part of the downtown Atlanta community. He launched a university-wide planning effort that (1) secured private funding sources for building projects; (2) established a campus identity based on a central campus corridor; (3) grouped campus functions; (4) developed a research focus and receiving classification by the Carnegie Foundation as a Research Extensive University; and (5) created a university endowment.

Patton's focus on improved campus infrastructure, recruitment of world-class faculty and strengthened academic programs has resulted in increased recognition for Georgia State through national rankings, peer journals and media reports.

Patton previously was the vice-president for academic affairs at the University of Toledo. He also has served in faculty and administrative positions at the University of Illinois, Champaign, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

He holds doctoral and master's degrees in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in urban planning and public administration from Illinois. Patton obtained his bachelor's degree in community planning from the University of Cincinnati.

The Southern Methodist University president joins the Board of Directors, replacing Bob Lawless as a Western Athletic Conference representative.

Turner became the Southern Methodist CEO in 1995, and has just led the university through the largest major gifts campaign for any institution in North Texas. Ending in May 2002, the campaign generated more than $532 million in gifts and pledges. The five-year campaign raised funds for 80 new endowments for academic purposes, 171 new scholarships, 16 new endowed faculty chairs or professorships, 28 new student-life initiatives, and full or partial funding for 14 new or renovated facilities.

Beyond the campus, Turner serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the National Merit Foundation. He is president of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas. He also serves on the boards of the United Way of Dallas, the Methodist Hospital Foundation, the Salvation Army of Dallas and three publicly traded companies.

Turner earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Abilene Christian University and master's and doctorate degrees in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

White

The Arkansas CEO replaced University of South Carolina, Columbia, President John Palms on the Board earlier in the academic year and will serve a term that extends through January 2005.

White has been chancellor at Arkansas for five years and has focused his attention on improvements in research, instruction and outreach at the university. In 2002, Arkansas was named a Truman Foundation Honor Institution for its prowess in producing undergraduates who compete and win prestigious Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarships.

White came to Arkansas from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was dean of engineering and where he had served on the faculty for 22 years. From 1988 to 1991, he served as assistant director for engineering at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.

White received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Arkansas in 1961. His graduate work in industrial engineering was conducted at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (master's degree) and Ohio State University (Ph.D.).

Management Council

Grant

Grant joins the Management Council, replacing Florida International University Athletics Director Rick Mello as the Sun Belt representative.

Grant has spent two years as Sun Belt associate commissioner for compliance. Her responsibilities include NCAA rules education/
interpretations and oversight of the conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and NCAA Special Assistance Fund. Grant also coordinates the league's annual compliance seminar, coaches certification program and National Letter of Intent Program. In addition, Grant shares duties as Sun Belt senior woman administrator.

Before joining the Sun Belt, Grant was a membership services representative at the NCAA national office for two years. Before that, she was a longtime administrator at the the University of Southern Mississippi, where she served most recently as senior woman administrator and associate athletics director. She also served as compliance coordinator, head volleyball coach, head softball coach and head tennis coach during her tenure there.

Grant earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees at Southern Mississippi in 1980 and 1987, respectively.

Gumbart

The associate commissioner of the Atlantic Sun replaces Atlantic Sun Commissioner Bill Bibb on the Management Council.

Gumbart joined the Atlantic Sun Conference staff in November of 1991 as its first assistant commissioner and was promoted to associate commissioner in 1997. He oversees championships, marketing and communications, and he administers various officiating programs. Gumbart also coordinates the league's television package.

Gumbart served for four years on the Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet, where he was a member of the certified events subcommittee and the administrative subcommittee.

Before joining the Atlantic Sun staff, Gumbart worked at Stetson University from 1985 to 1991. He served as assistant information director for three years and earned his master's degree in business administration in 1987. Promoted to director in 1988, Gumbart also taught undergraduate marketing and consumer behavior courses as an adjunct professor at Stetson. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics and business at Lafayette College in 1984.

Hickey

Hickey joins the Council as a Big East Conference representative, taking over for Georgetown University Senior Woman Administrator Pat Thomas.

Hickey joined the Rutgers staff in January 1999 as an assistant athletics director. Her responsibilities at Rutgers include overseeing the NCAA compliance program with emphasis on the football and men's and women's basketball programs. She also is responsible for the day-to-day oversight for nine Olympic sports programs.

Before her appointment at Rutgers, Hickey served as assistant director for compliance at the Big East. In that role, she served as a primary liaison between the NCAA and the 13 conference members, conducting NCAA rules-education programs for coaches and administrators in the conference, working with the National Letter of Intent program and serving as the primary liaison to the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse.

Before that, Hickey was on the staff of the Southern Conference, working in both the championships and compliance areas before being appointed assistant commissioner in May 1995.

She began her career in college athletics as an operations supervisor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1992.

Hickey received her undergraduate degree in health and physical education from the University of Rhode Island in 1992 and her master's degree in sport administration from North Carolina in 1994.

Johnson

Johnson, whose term on the Council lasts through January 2006, joined the group in October. He replaces former Conference USA Commissioner Mike Slive, who will continue to serve on the Council in his new role as commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.

Johnson came to Memphis in February 1996. Since then, he has hired high-profile coaches in football, basketball and baseball, and has initiated the start of an $8 million capital campaign, the largest in school history.

Johnson formerly was the athletics director at Temple University, where he was responsible for directing a program with more than 500 student-athletes in 20 men's and women's sports. He served in that capacity from 1994 to 1996. Before that, Johnson served six years as director of athletics at Miami University (Ohio) and eight years as athletics director at Eastern Illinois University. He was the associate athletics director at the University of Northern Iowa from 1974 to 1980.

Johnson also served as an assistant football coach at Minnesota State University-Mankato from 1968 to 1974. He also coached at Youngstown State University during the 1967 and 1968 seasons. Before that, Johnson was an assistant coach at Northern Iowa the University of Iowa.

Johnson holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Iowa and a master's in physical education from Northern Iowa.

Kretchmar

The Penn State faculty athletics representative replaces fellow FAR Percy Bates from the University of Michigan on the Management Council as a Big Ten Conference representative.

Kretchmar is a professor of exercise and sport science in the kinesiology department, a staff he chaired from 1984 to 1990 and again as interim department head this past year.

He received his bachelor's degree in physical education from Oberlin College in 1966 and his doctorate from the University of Southern California five years later. He has held academic positions at Emporia State University, the State University of New York at Brockport and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

At Penn State, Kretchmar has served as chair of the university faculty senate, and he recently was inducted into The Learning Consortium Teacher's Hall of Fame.

Lewis

Lewis takes over as a Southeastern Conference representative on the Council for Damon Evans, senior associate director of athletics at the University of Georgia.

Lewis is in her 22nd season at Arkansas, having come to the Fayetteville campus originally as the Lady Razorbacks' cross country and track coach. The 2002-03 season marks Lewis' 14th at the helm of the women's athletics department.

During her time as athletics director, every Lady Razorback sport has achieved a new pinnacle, from basketball reaching the Women's Final Four in 1998 to a national runner-up finish in cross country and a third-place finish in indoor track. In 2001, Lewis received one of her greatest personal honors as longtime university benefactors Bob and Marilyn Bogel requested that Arkansas' $6 million facility for the Lady Razorbacks be named the Bev Lewis Center for Women's Athletics. Three years earlier, she was voted into the university's Hall of Honor.

Her NCAA committee service includes stints on the track and field and soccer committees. She recently completed a term on the Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet, serving as chair of the bracket/format subcommittee.

Lewis earned her bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University in 1979 and her master's from Purdue University before her arrival at Arkansas in 1981.

Lyons

Lyons will serve as a Big Ten Conference representative to the Council through January 2005. She has been an associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator at Northwestern since 1996.

Lyons' duties at the Big Ten include serving on the administrators council, sports management committee, compliance coordinators committee and the academics and eligibility subcommittee.

Before joining the Northwestern staff, Lyons was an associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator at Southern Connecticut State University from 1993 to 1996. Before that, Lyons held various positions in athletics administration at Boston University from 1984 to 1993. She also taught and coached (field hockey, basketball and softball) at the high-school level for five years.

Lyons has a bachelor's degree from Bridgewater State College and a master's in education from Boston U.

Potuto

The Nebraska FAR replaces Gerald Lage, the FAR at Oklahoma State University, as a Big 12 Conference representative on the Management Council.

Potuto became Nebraska's faculty representative to the NCAA and Big 12 Conference in May 1997.

She is a member of the Division I Committee on Infractions as well as the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Committee.

Well-known for her expertise in gender equity, Potuto also is a past adviser to the Uniform Law Commissioners Committee, and she also drafted rules governing search and seizure and hearings for the Nebraska Racing Commission. Potuto currently serves on a committee to study the NCAA governance structure, appointed by the Division I-A Athletic Directors Association.

Potuto, who teaches constitutional, procedural and criminal law, joined the Nebraska law faculty as an assistant professor in 1974. She has been a visiting professor of law at several universities, including the University of Arizona; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick; the University of Oregon; the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Seton Hall University.

Potuto earned her bachelor's degree in journalism at Rutgers' Douglass College and her master's degree in English literature at Seton Hall in 1971. She received her juris doctorate at the Rutgers Law College in 1974.

Romeo

Romeo becomes a Conference USA representative to the Council, replacing University of Louisville Athletics Director Tom Jurich.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College, a master's from the University of Idaho and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Romeo has been a professor of biology at South Florida since 1977. He is a former chair and former graduate director, and he currently directs the school's biology honors program.

Romeo is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chemical Ecology, a monthly scientific journal, and of Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, a yearly symposium volume on various topics.

As a research scientist, Romeo's expertise is in plant biochemistry and chemical ecology.

He currently is the FAR for Conference USA, and his committee service includes the medical waivers committee and the legislative review committee.

Thomas

Thomas joined the Management Council earlier this year, replacing Charles Harris. Thomas also replaced Harris as commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in July 2002.

Thomas formerly was the athletics director at Hampton University since 1990. Under his watch, Hampton won league football titles in 1997 and 1998 and men's basketball crowns in 2001 and 2002. The basketball program also was known for defeating second-seeded Iowa State University as a No. 15 seed two years ago.

Thomas became affiliated with the MEAC when he was named head football coach at South Carolina State in 1986. One year later, he guided the Bulldogs to their first winning season in four years. Before that, Thomas was an assistant coach and defensive coordinator at Alcorn State University from 1985 to 1986. Before that, he was an assistant coach at Northeast Louisiana State University after graduating form Alcorn State in 1974.

Thomas earned a doctorate in physical education from University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, in 1984.

Truiett

The Loyola (Maryland) SWA assumes the Council's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference seat previously held by MAAC Commissioner Rich Ensor.

Truiett is in her fourth season at Loyola, where in addition to her SWA duties, she oversees the athletics department's NCAA compliance issues as an assistant athletics director.

Truiett came to Loyola from Wagner College, where she served as an assistant athletics director/senior woman administrator for one year. Before that, she was Wagner's compliance coordinator and academic counselor.

A 1995 graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, Truiett earned a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology. She also has a master's degree in human performance and sport studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She currently is in the process of earning her doctorate in educational administration from Morgan State University.

Truiett previously served on the Division I Women's Lacrosse Committee and as a member of the Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance cabinet.

Vowels

The SWAC commissioner replaces interim SWAC Commissioner James Frank on the Management Council.

Vowels became the fourth commissioner of the SWAC in December. He came to the league office from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, where he served as commissioner for three years. During his tenure there, Vowels negotiated the league's first multiyear football and basketball television agreement and the conference's first licensing and merchandising agreements. He also developed the league's first corporate-partner program and student-athlete participant gift program. He also was a steward in the expansion of the conference to 11 institutions.

Before that, Vowels was the associate commissioner of the Big Ten Conference and an assistant director of athletics at Vanderbilt University. He holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a juris doctor degree from North Carolina Central University Law School.