Professional News

Brothers to Serve Second Term as Staff Trustee

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 10, 2013) — Sheila Brothers has been elected to serve a second term as the staff’s representative to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.

Brothers was first elected in June 2010 to serve a three-year term of office to the board. During that term she served as secretary of the board (2012-2013) and a member of the Nominating, Human Resources, University Athletics and University Relations committees. She was also an ex officio member of the executive committee. She has represented staff interests in a variety of forums, initiating practices to facilitate communication and to develop a greater respect for staff participation in shared governance. Brothers also initiated a regular blog, reporting events of each most recent board meeting to staff members.

She is with the Office of Senate Council. See Brothers’ website for more information. Her second term of office runs through June 2016.

On the same ballot, new members of the governing board of the Women’s Forum were selected.

The new Women’s Forum board members are Erika Chambers, Work Life director; Carol Dell, clinical faculty in Radiology; Lindsey Jasinski, clinical faculty in Psychiatry; Connie LeRoy, a supervisor in Physical Plant-Medical Center; Lisa Lockman, a Residence Life officer; Therese Smith, behavioral intervention coordinator for Food Services Administration; Abbye Tackett, of the Lucille Little Fine Arts Library; Sara Talbott, an agricultural extension agent; and Jennafer Greene of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

The Women’s Forum, led by its board, organizes, sponsors and presents an annual conference in the fall, the Sarah Bennett Holmes Awards in the spring, and Employee Educational Assistance Awards throughout the year.