Fisk University
As six trustees rotated off the university’s board, Fisk trustees elected board member Barbara Landers Bowles, 65, a Nashville native and Fisk alum, as chair of the board. They elected Patricia Castles Meadows, a veteran Certified Public Accountant from Nashville, as vice chair of the board. She had been on the board for several years serving on its audit committee.
Bowles, a retired Chicago investment banker, has extensive experience in banking and investor relations. After graduation from the University of Chicago with a master’s degree in business, she started her banking career at the former First Chicago Bank. She subsequently ran the investor relations operations for Beatrice Foods and, subsequently, Kraft Foods, before venturing out on her own. She is a director of Wisconsin Energy Corporation and serves on the governing boards of several Chicago area profit and nonprofit organizations.
The Fisk trustees also elected Patricia Castles Meadows, a veteran Certified Public Accountant from Nashville, as vice chair of the board. She had been on the board for several years serving on its audit committee.
Separately, two board members — Gregg F. Morton, president of AT&T Tennessee, and Jacqueline Denton Alton, president of Houston-based Alameda Travel — were appointed co-chairs of the board’s Development Committee.
Another board member, Challis M. Lowe, elected to the board last October, was named chair of the Financial Strength Committee. Lowe, a former executive of Dollar General Stores and one-time member of the board of trustees at Florida A&M University, is a senior vice president of St. Louis-based Ascension Health.
Robert W. Norton, who rotated off the university board after 13 years as a trustee, was appointed chair of the university’s $60 million comprehensive campaign. Described as in its “silent” phase, the Fisk campaign has been talked about by various Fisk officials for nearly three years.
