Trustees

L. Neil Williams Jr. — Chairman

Atlanta, Georgia

Williams is the retired Managing Partner of the law firm Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta and a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Vasser Woolley Foundation, Trustee of the Halle Foundation, Trustee of Trinity Presbyterian Church and is a member of the Board of Directors of Printpack, Inc., Acuity Brands, Inc., and Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. He also is the former Chairman of the Board of Duke University and of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta.

Mary D. B. T. Semans — Chair Emerita

1920 - 2012

Semans was the great-niece of James B. Duke, founder of The Duke Endowment. She was an Emerita Member of the Boards of Trustees of Duke University and its Kenan Institute of Ethics. In addition, she was Chair of the Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee, Honorary Trustee of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Trustee Emerita of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Semans also was an Honorary Member of the Conservation Trust of North Carolina and served on the Friends of Duke University Library and on the Board of Visitors for Duke University Medical Center. Read more about her inspiring life.

Mary D. T. Jones — Vice Chairman

Abingdon, Virginia

Jones is Chairman of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and serves on the boards of the Virginia Historical Society, the Richmond and Bristol Junior League and the Washington County Public Library Foundation. She is a former Trustee of Emory and Henry College, and has served as a board member of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Virginia Arts Commission.

Minor M. Shaw — Vice Chairman

Greenville, South Carolina

Shaw is President of the Micco Corporation. She serves as Chairman of the Daniel-Mickel Foundation and is Vice-Chair of the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport Commission. She is a board member of the S.C. Governors School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation, MDC, Hollingsworth Funds, South Carolina ETV Communications, Palmetto Institute, Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Piedmont Natural Gas, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina and Columbia Nations Funds.

William G. Anlyan, M.D.

Durham, North Carolina

Anlyan is Chancellor Emeritus of Duke University Medical Center. Currently, he is a member of the Board of the National Health Museum in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Anlyan has been Chairman of the Board of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Association of Academic Health Centers, the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and Research!America, and serves on numerous other boards.

William Barnet III

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Barnet is CEO of The Barnet Company and Barnet Development Company and just completed a second term as Mayor of Spartanburg, S.C. Currently, he serves on the board of Duke Energy Corporation and the Palmetto Institute.

Dennis M. Campbell, Ph.D.

Woodberry Forest, Virginia

Campbell is Headmaster of Woodberry Forest School. For many years he was Dean of the Divinity School and Professor of Theology at Duke University. Previously, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Family Health International, the Boys and Girls Club of Orange County, the Virginia Association of Independent Schools and the Piedmont Environmental Council and a Trustee of the International Coalition of Boys' Schools. He has chaired the Board of WHTJ Commonwealth Public Television and is a member of the board of the National Association of Boarding Schools.

Ravenel B. Curry III

New York, New York

Curry is the President and Co-founder of Eagle Capital Management in New York. He has served as a Trustee of Furman University, as President of the Furman University Alumni Board and as Chair of the New Jersey Higher Education Assistance Authority. Currently, Curry is a Trustee of the Manhattan Institute, the New York Hall of Science, the New-York Historical Society and the Genetics Endowment of South Carolina.

Constance F. Gray

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Gray is a former planner-coordinator for the Center for Human Services Research at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, served as consultant for the Community Action Program Directors on Leadership Training at the Center for Creative Leadership and was a member of the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees. Currently, Gray serves on the Carson Council for Rachel’s Network in Washington, D.C., and is on the Board of Trustees of the Anglican Communion Compass Rose Society.

Thomas S. Kenan III

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Kenan is Director and Vice Chairman of the Board of Flagler System, Inc. He is Director of the four William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund Foundations and a Trustee of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, the Executive Mansion Fine Arts Fund and the Randleigh Foundation Trust. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Semans Art Fund of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Foundation.

Charles C. Lucas III

Charlotte, North Carolina

Lucas is the General Counsel of Elevation LLC. Currently, he serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and on the Board of Visitors of the Duke University School of Law. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Lynwood Foundation, and the Boards of Advisors of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Wilhelmina M. Reuben-Cooke

Fairfax Station, Virginia

Reuben-Cooke is a Professor of Law at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia where previously she served as the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. She is an Emerita Member of the Board of Trustees of Duke University, having served as a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Academic Affairs and Honorary Degree committees.

Russell M. Robinson II

Charlotte, North Carolina

Robinson is a Founding Partner of the law firm Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. Currently, he serves as a Trustee of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte and the United Way of the Central Carolinas and Chairman of the UNC Charlotte Investment Fund, Inc. Robinson is a member of the American Law Institute, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Board of Visitors for Duke University Law School.

Jean G. Spaulding, M.D.

Durham, North Carolina

Spaulding is in the private practice of psychiatry, Jean G. Spaulding, M.D., P.C. Currently, she serves as Director of Cardinal Health Corporation, is on the Advisory Board of Bright Horizons and serves on the boards of Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation and the Durham board of Wachovia Bank of North Carolina. In addition, she is Chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

Kenneth D. Weeks Jr., M.D.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Weeks is a cardiologist, sleep specialist and researcher with Novant Health-Presbyterian Sleep Health Center, Charlotte, N.C. Formerly, he was a cardiologist and researcher with Mid Carolina Cardiology, which he co-founded. He serves on the Leadership Circle of United Way of Central Carolinas and has served as a Trustee of Davidson College and as Board Chairman of Novant Health. Weeks is an instructor and mentor for the pre-medical program at Davidson College, and is on the Medical Advisory Council for Duke University Medical Center.