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L E A D E R S H I P
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
DR. LEE T. TODD, JR.
Lee T. Todd, Jr. became the 11th
president of the University of
Kentucky on July 1, 2001, after serving
as senior vice president of IBM’s
Lotus Development Corp. President
Todd is the sixth UK alumnus to
hold the presidency.
President Todd has concentrated
his efforts and energies on helping
his alma mater achieve a greater
level of national prominence. He
launched the University of Kentucky’s Top 20 Business Plan in
December 2005. The plan is a quantitative analysis highlighting
what it will take for UK to achieve its state-mandated goal of
building a Top 20 public research university. Widely hailed as
the first business plan by a public university in the nation, UK’s
plan garnered widespread national attention. It has been featured
by national media outlets and recognized by peer institutions,
as several higher education leaders have visited UK’s campus
to learn more about the Business Plan approach.
President Todd has focused
his efforts and energies
on helping his alma mater
achieve a greater level of
national prominence.
He continues to champion UK’s outreach efforts. President
Todd launched a university-funded research program called the
Commonwealth Collaboratives. The initiative features 36 of UK’s
top research teams, who are focused on solving the intrinsic problems
that have held the state back from reaching its full potential.
It is part of UK’s effort to ensure that its research hits the ground
in Kentucky and changes lives throughout the Commonwealth.
President Todd has spearheaded an effort to revitalize health care
in Kentucky. In June 2006, UK unveiled the Commonwealth’s
Medical Campus of the Future, a multi-phased project aimed at
providing Kentuckians with cutting-edge, 21st century health care.
As part of the revamped academic medical campus, UK will construct
a new, one million square foot University of Kentucky Albert
B. Chandler Hospital and a new College of Pharmacy.
President Todd is currently a member of the Board of Directors
and Vice Chair of the Executive Committee for the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASUL-
GC). He is President of the Southeastern Conference (SEC)
Executive Committee. President Todd serves on the Equitable
Resources Board of Directors and is chair of the Kentucky Council
on Postsecondary Education’s STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics) Task Force. He is chair of the
National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher
Education’s (NCCI) Leveraging Excellence Award selection panel.
President Todd also is a member of the Business Higher Education
Forum and the Council on Competitiveness.
He is married to the former Patricia Brantley, a UK graduate
who earned her master’s degree from Simmons College in Boston.
They have two adult children, UK graduates Troy and Kathryn.
UK BOARD OF TRUSTEES
AND ATHLETIC BOARD
Board of Trustees
(as of July 14, 2008)
Mira S. Ball, Chair
Stephen P. Branscum,
Vice Chair
Pamela Robinette May,
Secretary
Edward Britt Brockman
Penelope A. Brown
Jo Hern Curris
Dermontti F. Dawson
Ann Brand Haney
James F. Hardymon
Everett McCorvey
Billy Joe Miles
Tyler Montell
Sandy Bugie Patterson
Phillip R. Patton
Erwin Roberts
Charles R. Sachatello
C. Frank Shoop
JoEtta Y. Wickliffe
Russ Williams
Ernest J. Yanarella
Athletic Board
(as of July 1, 2008)
Charles W. Arnold
Frank Butler
Charles Cassis
Dermontti F. Dawson
Luther Deaton
Alan DeSantis
C. M. Gatton
Scott Kelley
Kathi Kern
Frank Shoop
Gerald Smith
William B. Sturgill
Kumble Subbaswamy
Patricia Terrell
Lee T. Todd, Jr.
Bruce Walcott
Emeritus Member
S. T. Roach
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