Trustees Emeriti


Trustees obtain emeritus status when they serve at least one full term of six years and attain the age of 70. By custom, if a trustee is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, he or she achieves emeritus status after serving a full term and retiring from the episcopacy. Emeriti members may attend board and committee meetings but do not vote.

  •  J. David Allen 67C 70D 75DR
  • Richard Julian Bagby 62C 66M 67MR 72MR
  • Ellen Agnor Bailey 63C 87B
  • Thomas D. Bell Jr. 
  • Arthur M. Blank 
  • Henry L. Bowden Jr. 74L
  • Susan A. Cahoon 68C
  • Thomas G. Cousins
  • G. Lindsey Davis 
  • Walter M. Deriso Jr. 68C 72L
  • Robert E. Fannin 67T 70T
  • James L. Ferman Jr. 65B
  • Russell R. French 67C
  • James R. Gavin III 70G
  • Charles Benjamin Ginden 55C
  • John T. Glover 68C
  • Laura Jones Hardman 67C
  • Sue Haupert-Johnson 95T
  • C. Robert Henrikson 72L
  • M. Douglas Ivester 
  • Charles H. Jenkins Jr. 64B 65B
  • Ben F. Johnson III
  • Ruth J. Katz
  • William N. Kelley
  • Muhtar Kent
  • Jonathan K. Layne 79B 79L
  • Steven H. Lipstein 78C
  • Charles H. McTier 61B
  • John F. Morgan Sr. 67Ox 69B
  • Sam A. Nunn Jr. 61L 62L
  • George D. Overend 64C
  • Rhoda A. Peters 
  • J. Neal Purcell 61Ox 63B
  • Wendell S. Reilly 80C
  • Katherine T. Rohrer 74C
  • Gary W. Rollins 
  • Diane Wilkins Savage 71C
  • Lynn Heilbrun Stahl 76C
  • Alvin M. Sugarman 60B 88G
  • James E. Swanson Sr. 
  • Mary Virginia Taylor 75T
  • Chilton Davis Varner 76L
  • Felker W. Ward Jr. 71L
  • B. Michael Watson 74T
  • William H. Willimon 73T
  • E. Jenner Wood III