Board of Directors

The National Civil Rights Museum is a non-profit organization operated by the Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation board of directors.

Mr. Herbert Hilliard
Retired Executive VP of Risk Management
First Tennessee Bank
Chairman, Board of Directors

Mr. Joseph R. Hyde III
President, Pittco Management, LLC
Chairman, Executive Committee

State Senator Raumesh Akbari

Ms. Pamela Alexander
Director, Community Development
Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services

Mrs. Nelda Burroughs

Mr. Don Clanton
President, Small Business Administration Division
Evolve Bank & Trust

Mr. Darrell T. Cobbins
President & Principal Broker
Universal Commercial Real Estate, LLC

Mr. Gregory Duckett
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, Inc.
Vice Chair

Mr. Nnaemeka "Meka" Egwuekwe
Founder
CodeCrew

Mrs. Rose Jackson Flenorl
Manager, Global Citizenship-Signature Programs
FedEx
Secretary

Mr. Preston Frazer
Vice President of Internal Audit, AutoZone

Mrs. Kathy Buckman Gibson
President & COO
KBG Technologies, LLC

Rabbi Micah Greenstein
Temple Israel

Ms. Shaila Karkera

Ms. Lisa Krupicka
Burch Porter & Johnson, PLLC

Mrs. Connie Lewis Lensing

Mr. Johnny B. Moore, Jr.
President, SunTrust Bank

Mr. William "Billy" Orgel
CEO, Tower Ventures

Mr. Elliot L. Perry
Community Advisor, The Poplar Foundation

Mr. Bill Rhodes
President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Auto Zone
Treasurer

Ms. Cathy Ross

Ms. Bathsheba Sams
Vice President, Human Resources, Industrial Packaging the Americas
International Paper

Gail Tyree
AFSCME Local 1733

Mr. Michael Ugwueke
President, COO, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare

Silvia Williams
International Paper

Mr. Spence Wilson, Jr.
Vice President, Kemmons Wilson Companies