Blue Mountain College


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


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