Ron Wellman, the director of athletics at Wake Forest, Doug Fullerton, commissioner of the Big Sky Conference and Big 12 Conference Commissioner Dan Beebe will join the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee beginning September 1.

The new members will replace Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive, George Mason Director of Athletics Tom O’Connor and Utah Director of Athletics Chris Hill when their terms expire.

Wellman assumed the top position in the athletics department at Wake Forest in 1992. He is a graduate of Bowling Green and was a pitcher on the baseball team. After earning a master’s degree there, Wellman joined the faculty and basketball, football and baseball coaching staffs at Elmhurst College in 1971. In 1977, he became the school’s director of athletics, serving in that role until being named head baseball coach at Northwestern in 1981.

He was named director of athletics at Mankato State (now Minnesota State Mankato) in 1986. A year later, he was named to the same position at Illinois State University, where he remained until moving on to Wake Forest.

Fullerton is in his 14th year as commissioner of the Big Sky, taking over that position in 1995 after 11 years as director of athletics at Montana State. He also spent three years as assistant athletics director and three years as assistant men’s basketball coach there. He received his undergraduate degree from California Western University (now U.S. International), and earned his master’s degree from Montana State.

In 2003-04, Fullerton was selected by his fellow commissioners to serve as president of the Collegiate Commissioners Association, becoming the first Football Championship Subdivision commissioner to serve in that capacity.

Beebe has been with the Big 12 since 2003, first serving as senior associate commissioner and chief financial officer before being named commissioner in 2007. He received degrees from Walla Walla Community College and Cal Poly Pomona, as well as a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1982.

From there he joined the NCAA’s enforcement staff for four years before taking over for one year as assistant director of athletics at Wichita State. In 1988, he returned to the NCAA national office as director of enforcement, and from 1989-2003, Beebe was commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference.