The board is authorized to establish all general, academic and financial policies for the College. Each trustee pledges a responsibility to protect academic freedom and contribute to the best possible environment for the faculty to teach, pursue their scholarship and perform public service. The board is dedicated to acting in a manner that best serves the College’s financial health and the overall welfare of the institution for its students, staff, faculty and donors.

Trustees

Steven R. Mills ’77, Chair
Senior Executive Vice President
(retired), Archer Daniels Midland Company
Creve Coeur, Missouri

Susan L. Pratt ’80, Ph.D., Vice Chair
Professor of English (retired), Writer, and Consultant
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Joan M. Deboer H’14, Secretary
Partner, Lahood DeBoer Strategies
Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 2009-2013
Alexandria, Virginia

Susan J. Allen H’09
Senior Vice President and Assistant
General Counsel (retired), Nielsen
Media Research Inc.
Hawthorn Woods, Illinois

Tonya Johnson Baise ’76
Teacher and Administrator (retired),
Lemont, IL School District
Estero, Florida

Ryan Barke ’97
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer,
Visionary Wealth Advisors
Caseyville, Illinois

Michael Bauersachs ’86
President and CEO (retired) Ramaco Resources, Inc.
Consultant and Investor MDB Energy Advisors LLC
Glen Allen, Virginia

Gerry L. Beard ’78
President (retired), Beard Implement Company
Arenzville, Illinois

Toni Blankmann ’74
Shell Oil Company (retired)
Houston, Texas

W. Scott Boston H’22, M.D.
Physician
Alexander, Illinois

Joseph T. Calmese ’07
CEO, ADDMAN Engineering
Estero, Florida

Barbara A. Farley, Ph.D., ex-officio
President, Illinois College
Jacksonville, Illinois

Michael A. Fletcher ’92
Vice President - Information 
Technology, State Farm
McKinney, Texas

Luiz Guimarães ’91
Senior Partner - Energy Transitition
Programs, Environmental Resources 
Management, Inc.
Houston, Texas

Joel C. Harmon ’66
Director of Analytical Chemistry
(retired), The Shell Oil Company
Missouri City, Texas

Julie Bodam Macartney ’98
Director, Business Operations and
Strategy, International Programs and
Operations, CARE USA
Atlanta, Georgia

Joanna M. Marker ’02
Principal - Distribution Performance,
Northwestern Mutual
Charlotte, North Carolina

Patrick B. Mathis H’09
Attorney and Partner, Mathis, 
Marifian & Richter, Ltd.
Belleville, Illinois

Greg C. May ’88
Partner, Williamson Funeral Home
Jacksonville, Illinois

Ellen Rammelkamp Miller ’72
Mathematics Professor (retired),
North Lake College
Jacksonville, Illinois

Stephen D. Oetgen H’12
Managing Director, Smoky Mountain
Advisory Co.
College Grove, Tennessee

Winston Rogers, III ’82
High School and Middle School
Principal (retired)
St. Peters, Missouri

Henry A. Schmitt ’73
Attorney and Partner (retired), 
Moos, Schmitt & O’Brien, PC
Peoria, Illinois

James W. Spradlin ’82
CEO (retired), GROWMARK, Inc.
Morton, Illinois

Jean Coultas Statler H’09
Co-founder and Managing Partner,
Statler Nagle, LLC
Arlington, Virginia

George A. Zelcs H’19
Partner, Korein Tillery
Barrington, Illinois

Emeriti Trustees

Joy French Becker ’67 H’15
Jacksonville, Illinois

James P. Bruner ’66 H’12
Jacksonville, Illinois

Robert E. Chipman ’74 H’23*
Jacksonville, Illinois

Del C. Dunham ’72 H’24
Flower Mound, Texas

John R. Fairfield ’61 H’07
Scottsdale, Arizona

James L. Green ’61 H’11, M.D.
Jacksonville, Illinois

Gary R. Haynes ’74, M.D., Ph.D.
New Orleans, Louisiana

Duane E. Hess ’71 H’20
Jacksonville, Illinois

John S. Kay H’09 H’22, D.Min
Wilmette, Illinois

Judge Richard Mills ’51 H’03*
Springfield, Illinois

Rev. Donald E. Minnick
Stevens Point, Wisconsin

John T. Porter ’68 H’13
Springfield, Illinois

Robert B. Thompson, III H’09 H’17
Arlington, Virginia

Katherine Thompson Tillery ’74 H’11
Evanston, Illinois

Jonathan G. Utley ’63 H’07, Ph.D.
Chicago, Illinois

James H. Voyles ’65 H’15
Zionsville, Indiana

E. Eugene Wells ’63 H’13, D.D.S.
Pearland, Texas

* denotes those who have passed away