Blue Mountain College, a Mississippi nonprofit corporation supported by the Mississippi Baptist Convention, is operated by a Board of Trustees which consists of no fewer than fifteen and no more than twenty-four members.  At the present time, the College has eighteen trustees who are elected by the Mississippi Baptist Convention after having been recommended by the Blue Mountain College Board of Trustees and the Nominating Committee of the Mississippi Baptist Convention. Trustees elected by the Mississippi Baptist Convention take office January 1 following their election and serve a three-year term which expires on December 31 three years thereafter.  Trustees may be re-elected for another three-year term. Any former trustee may be reelected, notwithstanding previous service of two or more consecutive terms, after a one-year period of not serving as a trustee.  The current list of members of the Board of Trustees for Blue Mountain College, which includes information related to professional position, is as follows:

Name	Professional Position	Hometown / State
Terms Expire 2008
Richard T. "Dick" Bennett	Attorney  Bennett, Lotterhos, Sulser & Wilson, P.A.  Jackson, Mississippi	Clinton, Mississippi
Norman Gillespie	Judge	Oxford, Mississippi
Kenneth Hester	Pastor  First Baptist Church  Pontotoc, Mississippi	Pontotoc, Mississippi
Linda Bishop Johnson *	Realtor  Memphis, Tennessee	Memphis, Tennessee
Lamar McDonald	Business Executive	Meridian, Mississippi
Jane Anderson Preston *	Business Owner	Booneville, Mississippi
Terms Expire 2009
Harold Wayne Hankins	Business Owner  Hankins, Inc.  Ripley, Mississippi	Ripley, Mississippi
Jean Anderson Morgan *	Business Owner	Swainsboro, Georgia
Jeanette Collier Phillips *	Retired Professor  The University of Mississippi	Oxford, Mississippi
Judith A. Swanberg *	Member  First Baptist Church  Laurel, Mississippi	Laurel, Mississippi
Tommy Vinson *	Associate Pastor  First Baptist Church  Collierville, Tennessee	Collierville, Tennessee
Nick Walters	State Director  USDA Rural Development	Ridgeland, Mississippi
Terms Expire 2010
Linda Gholston *	Director  Sanctuary Hospice House	Tupelo, Mississippi
David Hamilton *	Pastor  West Heights Baptist Church
Joy Hurt Hill *	Speech/Language Pathologist  Mississippi State Department of Health  Early Intervention Program	Starkville, Mississippi
James M. Lewis *	Pastor  DeSoto Hills Baptist Church	Southaven, Mississippi
Sam Patterson	Businessman	Tupelo, Mississippi
Mike Staten	Vice President  Bank of New Albany  New Albany, Mississippi	New Albany, Mississippi
Executive Committee Mike Staten, Chair Linda Gholston, Vice Chair Harold Wayne Hankins, Secretary James M. Lewis, Member Bettye Rogers Coward, Ex officio

       * Blue Mountain College graduate