| Dr. Olin Cook
Chair
266 South Enid Avenue
Russellville, AR 72801
Term Expires: 2014 | Dr. Olin Cook of Russellville was appointed to the Coordinating Board in May 2008 and is serving a term that will expire in 2014. A retired educator, Dr. Cook has served as the Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Arkansas Tech University and for 10 years as the Director for the Department of Higher Education. He has served on several boards, including the River Valley Shelter for Battered Women and Children. Dr. Cook has also served as the Chair of the House Education Committee and is a former State Representative. |
| Dr. Charles Allen
Vice-Chair
11 Bayonne Court
Little Rock, AR 72223
Term Expires: 2013 | Dr. Charles Allen of Little Rock was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2007 and is serving a term that will expire in 2013. Dr. Allen serves as a business and industry representative and is the chief administrative officer for the Correction’s School System of Arkansas. Dr. Allen has 40 years of experience as an educator and has served as superintendent for three Arkansas School districts, a county school supervisor, a high school principal, and an educational supervisor with the Arkansas Department of Education. |
| Ms. Sarah Argue
Secretary
1117 N. Bryan Street
Little Rock, AR 72207
Term Expires: 2015 | Ms. Sarah Argue of Little Rock was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2009 and is serving a term that will expire in 2015. A graduate of Wellesly College in Massachusetts and the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Ms. Argue spent three years teaching fourth-and fifth-graders in inner-city Boston. |
| Dr. Joe Bennett
P.O. Box 969
Harrison, AR 72602
Term Expires: 2013 | Dr. Joe Bennett of Harrison was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2007 and is serving a term that will expire in 2013. Dr. Bennett serves as a business and industry representative and is a retired medical doctor who operated a private radiology practice at Boone County Medical Center. He also served as the hospital’s chief of staff and on the Advisory Commission to the Arkansas Board of Higher Education from 1972-75. He was chairman of the North Arkansas Community College Board of Trustees from 1992-2000. |
| Mr. Bob L. Burns
2005 Karen Circle
Magnolia, AR 71753
Term Expires: 2015 | Bob L. Burns of Magnolia was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2007 to fill a remaining term that expired in 2009 and is currently serving his second term, which will expire in 2015. Mr. Burns previously served as a university Board of Trustee member and is currently the chairman and CEO of Farmers Bank and Trust in Magnolia. He is a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, where he served with the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. He has served on several boards, including Chairman of the Southern Arkansas University Board of Trustees and as a board member on the Arkansas Counsel of Economic Education. |
| Mr. Bob Crafton
707 North E Street
Rogers, AR 72756
Term Expires: 2011 | Bob H Crafton of Rogers was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2009 and is serving a term that will expire in 2011. He graduated from Arkansas Tech with an Associate of Science Degree and the University of Arkansas with a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering. He previously served on the planning committee that brought the Northwest Arkansas Community College to a successful vote and served twelve years on the NWACC Board of Trustees, two years as chairman. He served 10 years on the Rogers Board of Education, two years as chairman. He is a retired Consulting Engineer having co-founded Crafton Tull and Associates, a firm that now has over 300 employees with offices in several states. |
| Mr. Horace Hardwick
4 Saddleworth Place
Bentonville, AR 72712
Term Expires: 2016 | Hoarce Hardwick of Bentonville was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2011, and he is currently serving his first term, which will expire in 2016. Mr. Hardwick graduated from Southwestern University in Waxahaxhie, Texas, and retired as Director of International Sales and Marketing for G.E. Lighting in Mexico. He served on the Northwest Arkansas Community College Board of Trustees and as a former State Representative. |
| Mr. Kaneaster Hodges
100 PSE Road , Suite A
Newport, AR 72112
Term Expires: 2014 | Kaneaster Hodges, Jr. of Newport was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2002 and is currently serving his second term that will expire in 2014. Mr. Hodges previously served as a Board of Trustee member of the University of Arkansas and graduated from Princeton University. Mr. Hodges received his law degree from the University of Arkansas and practices in Newport. He also served as a U.S. Senator. Mr. Hodges served as Chair of the Coordinating Board from July 2005 to July 2007. |
| Dr. Calvin Johnson
9107 Highway 63
Pine Bluff, AR 71603
Term Expires: 2017 | Dr. Calvin Johnson was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2011 and is currently serving a term that will expire in 2017. Dr. Johnson recently retired as dean of the School of Education at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Before arriving at UAPB in 1993, Johnson served for 15 years as chairman of the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 1999, Johnson was elected to the state House of Representatives. |
| Mr. David Leech
102 East 22nd
Stuttgart, AR 72160
Term Expires: 2012 | Chair David Leech of Stuttgart was appointed to the Coordinating Board in May 1997 and is currently serving his second term, which will expire in 2012. Mr. Leech previously served as a two-year institution Board of Trustee member and graduated from the University of Arkansas in Monticello. Mr. Leech operates a wholesale grocery business in Stuttgart. |
| Mr. Steve Luelf
4662 Hwy. 62 West
Mountain Home, AR 72653
Term Expires: 2012 | Steve Luelf of Mountain Home was appointed to the Coordinating Board in June 2006 and is currently serving his first term that will expire in 2012. Mr. Luelf is president and owner of American Stitchco Inc., a cattle rancher, and former State Senator. He graduated from Stanford University and currently serves on the Arkansas Economic Development and Arkansas 4-H Foundations. Mr. Luelf currently serves as the Finance Committee Chair. |
| Mrs. Florine Milligan
429 Calvert Road
Forrest City, AR 72335
Term Expires: 2016 | Florine Milligan of Forrest City was appointed to the Coordinating Board in 2011 and is currently serving her first term, which will expire in 2016. Mrs. Milligan is retired from the Forrest City School District, where she was the director of total quality management and district supervisor of counselors. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Math from Lane College in Jackson, Tenn., and a Master in Science in Education in Guidance and Counseling as well as a certification in secondary administration from Arkansas State University at Jonesboro. She is a former chairperson of the Arkansas State University board of trustees, which recently completed its search for a system president. She is past president of the St. Francis County Area Chamber of Commerce and vice-chair of the Arkansas State Workforce Investment Board. |