Search Committee

The Presidential Search Committee includes W&L trustees, faculty, staff, and students, and is chaired by John Robinson ’94, who has served on the Board of Trustees since 2020 and currently chair’s the Board’s Governance Committee.

Presidential Search Committee Members:

• John Robinson ’94, Trustee and Chair
• Wali Bacdayan ’92, Rector of the Board of Trustees
• Aliaa Bassiouny, Lawrence Term Professor of Finance
• Caleb Dance, Associate Professor of Classics
• Michelle Drumbl, Robert O. Bentley Clinical Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, W&L School of Law
• Jack Huffard ’90 P’28, Trustee
• John Jensen ’01, Executive Director of Alumni and Career Services 
• Geordy Johnson ’05, Trustee
• Andrea Lepage, Pamela H. Simpson Professor of Art History
• Samantha McLemore ’02, Trustee
• Joelle Phillips ’95L, Trustee
• Sally Stone Richmond, Vice President of Admissions and Financial Aid
• Brodie Riordan ’03, Trustee
• Jack Sharman ’83, P’20, ’22, Trustee
• Lloyd Tanlu, Ehrick Kilner Haight Term Associate Professor of Accounting
• Jonathan Wortham ’04, Trustee
• John Beekman Youngblood ’27, Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Student Body

Search Committee Staff:

• Maria Feeley ’97L, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel (Administrative Liaison)
• Jessica Willett ’95, Vice President of Communications and Strategic Initiatives and Secretary of the University (Administrative Liaison)
• Katherine Brinkley, Director of Board Operations (Administrative Support)