Seven New Members Join Board of Trustees

Linda Edgerton
Esther Hall
Nancy Quaintance
Andrew Steginsky
Linda Edgerton
Esther Hall
Nancy Quaintance
Andrew Steginsky
Marth Summerville Patricia Timmons-Goodson Judy Whisnant
Martha Summerville
Patricia Timmons-Goodson
Judy Whisnant

 

The Board of Trustees welcomed seven new members at its fall meeting, held Oct. 1-3. They are:

  • Linda F. Edgerton of Greensboro, the owner of Linda Edgerton Communications. Edgerton attended Guilford before earning a B.A. at UNC Chapel Hill. She is a board member for Reading Connections and served on Guilford’s Board of Visitors from 2006-09.
  • Esther S. Hall ’74 of Raleigh, N.C., the executive director of the N.C. Legal Education Assistance Foundation and recipient of many honors including the Order of the Longleaf Pine and Governor’s Award for Volunteerism. A life member and president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, Hall will be the Alumni Board representative to the trustee board in 2009-10.
  • Nancy K. Quaintance of Greensboro, co-founder and vice president of marketing for Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels, operators of the O.Henry and Proximity hotels and the Lucky 32 restaurants. She is a past member of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Directors for J.A. King & Company, and serves on the Zoo Council Board for the North Carolina Zoo. Her husband, Dennis Quaintance, is a current Board of Visitors member.
  • Andrew D. Steginsky of Princeton, N.J., an investment advisor, owner and founding director of Steginsky Capital LLC, which he formed in 2000 after a 20-year Wall Street career. He is a member of several boards of fine arts organizations, such as the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Opera Theatre and the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy in Chicago. His son Eric Steginsky ’09 earned an A.B. in art.
  • Martha W. Summerville ’76 of New Haven, Conn., president of Summerville Consulting, which specializes in organizational development and executive coaching, following a long career in organizational development and human resources. She joined the Board of Trustees in 1999 and returns to the board after serving as an adviser to the Trusteeship and Governance Committee in 2008-09.
  • Patricia Timmons-Goodson of Fayetteville, N.C., an associate justice on the N.C. Supreme Court since 2006. A member of several professional legal associations and recipient of multiple awards, Timmons-Goodson is part of the N.C. Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission and the Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Committee. Her son is Ernest J. “Sonny” Goodson Jr. ’10.
  • Judy L. Whisnant ’78 of Chapel Hill, N.C., an attorney in private practice in Durham specializing in wills and estates, family law and mediation and collaborative law.  Her niece is Savannah Bell, ’11.

Guilford has 29 trustees who form the governing body for the college.  Trustees have the responsibility to determine and periodically review the college’s mission and purposes, establish the general policies necessary to accomplish these goals and manage the business and affairs of the college. In addition to the active board members, there are 16 emeriti trustees.

Oct. 6, 2009