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Board of Directors
The board of Watkins College of Art includes many luminaries in the arts, business, and philanthropy ecosystems—all of whom are passionate about the quality of the work being done at the college.
Board of Trustees
Officers
Steve Sirls (Chair)
Taylor H. Henry (Treasurer)
Commissioners/Trustees
Susan A. Basham
James H. Clayton III
Walter Knestrick
Trustees
Beth Scott Clayton Amos
Joan Cheek
Stephanie Conner
Tory Fitzgibbon
Brooke Porter Hawkins
Mary J. Hawkins
James R. Kelley
Kristin Laine
Laurence M. (Larry) Papel
Samantha Saturn
Santi Tefel
Laura Turner
William (Bill) Warfield
Waddell H. Wright
Trustees Emeriti
Ward DeWitt, Jr.
Ralph T. Glassford
Lee Ann Hawkins
Lucille Nabors
Paulette Whitworth
Ex Officio
J. Kline, PhD, President, Watkins College of Art
Bill Lee, Governor, State of Tennessee
Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General, State of Tennessee