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Board of Visitors
Paul Cotton, Ph.D., R.D.

Paul Cotton, Ph.D., R.D.
Chairman

Paul A. Cotton, Ph.D., R.D., is the Program Director for Health Behavior & Minority Health, Division of Extramural Activities, National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institutes of Health. For his work at NIH, he has received a number of awards including a 2009 NIH Director’s Award. He holds a B.S. in Human Nutrition and Foods and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Nutritional Sciences from Howard University. Prior to his appointment at NIH, he conducted human studies of nutrition and physical activity and developed research collaborations with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is a member of the Howard University Board of Trustees, president of the Bison Express, and past president of the Howard University Alumni Club of Prince Georges County. He serves on the Howard University NCAA Certification Steering Committee, NCAA Sub-Committee on Gender Equity and was inducted into the Howard University Athletic Hall of Fame (2003) for wrestling.


Sandra A. Billips
Vice President/General Counsel
Corporate Headquarters Systems Maintenance and Technology, Inc.
605 Post Office Road, Suite 302
Waldorf, MD.  20602-1913

Jew Don Boney, Jr.
Mickey Leland Center on World Hunger and Peace at Texas
P.O. Box 8447
Houston, Texas  77288-8847

Honorable Lee P. Brown
Former Mayor
City of Houston, City Hall
901 Bagby Street
Houston, Texas  77002

Zinetta Burney
Burney and Associates
5445 Almeda, Suite 400
Houston, Texas  77004

Ronnie Burns
Burns Management Group
6600 Plaza Drive, Suite 307
New Orleans, Louisiana  70127

Charles Bush
Bush Group
10290 Monroe Drive
Suite #305
Dallas, Texas  75229

George Butcher
Managing Director
Municipal Bond Department
Goldman Sachs
85 Broad Street – 24th floor
New York, New York 10004

Renee Cottrell Brown
Executive Vice President
Pro-Line International
2121 Panoramic Circle
Dallas, Texas  75212

Algenita Scott Davis
William A. Lawson
Institute for Peace and Prosperity (WALIPP)
5760 Cullen Boulevard
Houston, Texas  77021

Howard Goldenfarb
P.O. Box 1417
Kennebunkport, ME  04101

J.P. Gant
First Municipal Credit Corporation
10606 Stray Camel Way
Columbia, Maryland  21044

Jonathan Green
316 Morgan Road
Naples, Florida  34114

H. Tim Hoffman, Esquire
44 King Avenue
Piedmont, California  94611

Elizabeth Hutton-Turner
Senior Curator
The Phillips Collection
1600 Twenty-First Street
Washington, DC  20009

Leonard Jones
Rice Financial Products, Co.
17 State Street – 40th Floor
New York, New York 10004

Marian Johnson-Thompson
Director, Education and Biomedical
Research Development
National Institute of Environment Health Sciences
Box 1233
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709

Susan Pease Langford
Law Offices of Peck, Shaffer and V. Williams, LLP
3353 Peachtree Road, NE, Suite M20
Atlanta, Georgia  30326

Daniel C. Lawson
5445 Almeda, Suite 500
Houston, Texas  77004

Marsha Lillie-Blanton
Vice President in Health Policy
1330 G. Street, NW
Washington, DC  20005

Art McZier
National Business Services
Enterprises, Inc.
503 G. Street, NW
Washington, DC  20024

Jessye Norman
L’Orchidee, Inc.
P.O. Box 710
Crugers, New York  10521

Lynette P. Padmore
P.O. Box 271
Lloyd, Florida 32337

Don Rice
Rice Financial Products Co.
17 State Street – 40th Floor
New York, New York 10004

Richard Smallwood
African American Urban Gospel
Vocalist Alumnus
3240 Banneker Drive, NE
Washington, DC  20018

David Starr
David Starr & Associates, Inc
2161 NW Military Highway, Suite 1111
San Antonio, Texas  78213

Estelle Taylor
Professor Emerita
3221-20th Street, NE
Washington, DC  20008

Gary Thacker
Chief Executive Officer
Thacker Operating Company
The Carnegie Building 600
Atlanta, Georgia  30303

Tony Thacker
Thacker Operating Officer
650 Poydras Street
Suite 1519
New Orleans, LA  70130

Wellington E. Webb
Former Mayor
Denver, Colorado  80202

David Wilmont
1010 Vermont Avenue
Suite 810
Washington, DC

Dean - James A. Donaldson
Board of Visitors' Liaison with the College

 
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