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Dr. Lee T. Todd, Jr., President<br />
Lee T. Todd, Jr.<br />
became the 11th<br />
president <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
on July 1, 2001, after<br />
serving as senior vice<br />
president <strong>of</strong> IBM’s<br />
Lotus Development<br />
Corp. President Todd is<br />
the sixth UK alumnus<br />
to hold the presidency.<br />
President Todd has concentrated his efforts<br />
and energies on helping his alma mater achieve a<br />
greater level <strong>of</strong> national prominence. He<br />
launched the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s Top 20<br />
Business Plan in December 2005. The plan is a<br />
quantitative analysis highlighting what it will<br />
take for UK to achieve its state-mandated goal<br />
<strong>of</strong> building a Top 20 public research university.<br />
Widely hailed as the first business plan by a<br />
public university in the nation, UK’s plan has<br />
garnered widespread national attention. It has<br />
been featured by national media outlets and recognized<br />
by peer institutions, as several higher<br />
education leaders have visited UK’s campus to<br />
learn more about the Business Plan approach.<br />
The Top 20 Business Plan has also gained support<br />
throughout the Commonwealth, as the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> General Assembly fully funded the<br />
plan beginning in 2007-08.<br />
President Todd has spearheaded an effort to<br />
revitalize health care in <strong>Kentucky</strong>. In June 2006,<br />
UK unveiled the Commonwealth’s Medical Campus<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Future, a multi-phased project aimed at<br />
providing Kentuckians with cutting-edge, 21st century<br />
health care. As part <strong>of</strong> a revamped academic<br />
medical campus, UK will construct a new, one million<br />
square foot <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> Albert B.<br />
Chandler Hospital, a new College <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy, and<br />
a new <strong>University</strong> Health Service facility. All three <strong>of</strong><br />
those projects are currently in progress.<br />
President Todd is currently a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors and Executive Committee for<br />
the American Council on Education (ACE) and<br />
the National Association <strong>of</strong> State Universities<br />
and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). He also<br />
serves on NASULGC’s Council <strong>of</strong> Presidents.<br />
He serves on the Equitable Resources Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Directors and is chair <strong>of</strong> the National Science<br />
Foundation (NSF) Education and Human<br />
Resources Advisory Committee. He is chair <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Council on Postsecondary Education’s<br />
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,<br />
and Mathematics) Task Force and is also a member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Business Higher Education Forum<br />
and the Council on Competitiveness.<br />
He is married to the former Patricia Brantley, a<br />
UK graduate who earned her master’s degree from<br />
Simmons College in Boston. They have two adult<br />
children, UK graduates Troy and Kathryn.<br />
UK Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees<br />
and Athletic Board<br />
Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Trustees<br />
(as <strong>of</strong> August 2, 2007)<br />
James F. Hardymon, Chair<br />
JoEtta Y. Wickliffe,<br />
Vice Chair<br />
Pamela Robinette May,<br />
Secretary<br />
Mira S. Ball<br />
Stephen P. Branscum<br />
Penelope A. Brown<br />
Dermontti F. Dawson<br />
Jeffrey B. Dembo<br />
Ann Brand Haney<br />
Billy Joe Miles<br />
Sandy Bugie Patterson<br />
Phillip R. Patton<br />
Nick Phelps<br />
Erwin Roberts<br />
Charles R. Sachatello<br />
C. Frank Shoop<br />
Myra Leigh Tobin<br />
Billy B. Wilcoxson<br />
Russ Williams<br />
Ernest J. Yanarella<br />
Athletic Board<br />
(as <strong>of</strong> July 1, 2007)<br />
Frank Butler<br />
Charles Cassis<br />
Dermontti F. Dawson<br />
Luther Deaton<br />
Alan DeSantis<br />
C. M. Gatton<br />
Steve Hricenak<br />
Scott Kelley<br />
Kathi Kern<br />
Frank Shoop<br />
Gerald Smith<br />
William B. Sturgill<br />
Kumble Subbaswamy<br />
Patricia Terrell<br />
Lee T. Todd, Jr.<br />
Bruce Walcott<br />
Emeritus Member<br />
S. T. Roach<br />
Mitch Barnhart, Director <strong>of</strong> <strong>Athletics</strong><br />
Mitch Barnhart is<br />
in his sixth year<br />
as Director <strong>of</strong> <strong>Athletics</strong><br />
for the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>, having set a<br />
clear course for making<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
top athletics programs<br />
in the country.<br />
Hired July 15,<br />
2002, Barnhart has made the desire for overall<br />
excellence the cornerstone <strong>of</strong> Wildcat <strong>Athletics</strong>.<br />
His decision to fully fund all 22 varsity sports<br />
has produced a wave <strong>of</strong> firsts in a number <strong>of</strong><br />
programs, while also allowing UK to achieve its<br />
highest NACDA Directors' Cup finish (33rd in<br />
2005-06) in eight years.<br />
Numerous sports have reached never-before<br />
seen levels <strong>of</strong> success. Baseball won the school’s<br />
first ever Southeastern Conference title in 2006,<br />
following in the SEC championship footsteps <strong>of</strong><br />
women’s tennis, men’s golf and men’s basketball<br />
from 2005. Four Wildcat coaches earned SEC<br />
Coach <strong>of</strong> the Year honors in 2005-06, including<br />
women’s basketball’s Mickie DeMoss, volleyball’s<br />
26 T h i s i s U K Vo l l e y b a l l<br />
Craig Skinner, diving’s Mike Lyden and baseball’s<br />
John Cohen.<br />
The women’s soccer and rifle teams added<br />
league titles in 2006-07, with conference Coach <strong>of</strong><br />
the Year honors going to Warren Lipka and Harry<br />
Mullins, respectively.<br />
Barnhart instructed his staff to seek out new<br />
revenue streams, and that resulted in a record<br />
$80 million multimedia rights agreement with<br />
Host Communications. The additional resources<br />
allow UK to continue its commitment to its student-athletes,<br />
a commitment Barnhart takes personally.<br />
<strong>Athletics</strong> spends $1.5 million annually<br />
on its nationally-renowned CATS Academic<br />
Center and each spring hosts the CATSPYs, an<br />
awards program designed to recognize the very<br />
best in UK <strong>Athletics</strong>.<br />
Other initiatives begun under Barnhart's leadership<br />
include the Big Blue Caravan, which connects<br />
UK to its vast fan base each spring, the UK<br />
<strong>Athletics</strong> Hall <strong>of</strong> Fame, which honors past greats<br />
across all sports, a revamping <strong>of</strong> UK's donor program<br />
that has resulted in record K Fund dollars,<br />
and a 10-year, $10-million commitment to help<br />
fund the <strong>University</strong>'s general scholarship program.<br />
UK also completed the Joe Craft Center, a $30<br />
million expansion <strong>of</strong> Memorial Coliseum that<br />
includes new practice and <strong>of</strong>fice space for a variety<br />
<strong>of</strong> sports, basketball chief among them.<br />
Barnhart's connection to UK's studentathlete<br />
is evident by his personal interaction<br />
and commitment to provide all support services<br />
necessary to meet the needs <strong>of</strong> these students.<br />
Barnhart arrived at <strong>Kentucky</strong> from Oregon<br />
State, where he served four successful years<br />
(1998-2002) as athletics director. Before his<br />
tenure at OSU, he worked at Tennessee for 12<br />
years (1986-98); served as assistant executive<br />
director <strong>of</strong> the SMU Mustang Club (1983-86);<br />
regional director for the Duck Athletic Fund at<br />
Oregon (1983); and was an intern for the Aztec<br />
Athletic Foundation at San Diego State (1982-<br />
1983). Barnhart, 48, is a native <strong>of</strong> Kansas City,<br />
Kan. He received his bachelor degree from<br />
Ottawa <strong>University</strong> (Kansas) in 1981 and a masters<br />
in sports administration from Ohio <strong>University</strong><br />
in 1982. He and his wife, the former<br />
Connie Brown, have three children, Kirby, 19,<br />
Blaire, 16, and Scott, 13.