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The Gaines Center thanks the National Endowment for the Humanities for its support. The following are supported by an NEH Challenge Grant: The John R. Gaines Chair in the Humanities, The Bale Boone Symposium in the Humanities, and the Lafayette Seminar in Public Issues. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these programs or by the John R. Gaines Chair do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Gaines Center Board

John S. Carroll
Visiting Knight Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy at Harvard University
Former editor of the L.A. Times

Jennifer B. Coffman
Chief Judge, U.S. District Court
Eastern District of Kentucky

Zach Davis
Senior Gaines Fellow

Clay Dunn
Digital Marketing Manager, National Geographic

Carol Farmer
Co-Owner, Shadowlawn Farm

Joan B. Gaines
Co-founder of Gaines Center

Thomas Gaines
CEO, KBC International, Inc.
CEO, Gaines Thoroughbreds

Jim Gray
Mayor, Lexington
CEO, Gray Construction Company

Steve Grossman
Senior Vice President, Hilliard Lyons
Chair, Board of Trustees, Lexington Downtown Development Authority

Alan Hawse
Director, Cypress Semiconductor

Donna S. Hall
Chair of Board; Philanthropist

Adam Kegley
Frost, Brown, Todd LLC

Ouita P. Michel
Executive Chef and Co-owner, Holly Hill Inn

David Mohney
Curry Stone Chair, University of Kentucky College of Design

Josephine D. Richardson
Executive Chef and Owner, Courthouse Café
Co-founder, Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY

Josh Santana
Founding Partner, Santana and Fay, LLC

Ben Self
Founding Partner, Blue State Digital
Founder, West Sixth Brewing Co. and Bread Box

Holly Wiedemann
CEO, AU Associates, Inc. (Adaptive Use Developing)

James Woolery
J.P. Morgan and Chase
Co-Head, North American Mergers and Acquisitions

Ex officio

Robert Rabel
Director of The Gaines Center

Lisa Broome
Associate Director of The Gaines Center

Eli Capilouto
President, University of Kentucky

Kumble Subbaswamy
Provost, University of Kentucky

Mark Kornbluh
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky

Honorary Members

Nancy Dye
President, Oberlin College, Ohio

Edmund Pellegrino
John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics Georgetown University Medical Center for Clinical Bioethics

Former Board Members

Raymond Betts,* Founding Director
Mrs. Mary Bingham*
Mrs. Joy Bale Boone*
Hon. Edward T. Breathitt*
Mr. Tom Bulleit
Mrs. Gloria Gaines Callen
Dr. Thomas Clark*
Mr. Wendell Cherry*
Mrs. Margarite Davis*
Mrs. Lisa C. Ernst
Dr. William Freehling
Mr. John R. Gaines*
Mrs. Lois Gray
Mr. Robert Massie
Mrs. Joan W. McGeachy
Mr. Boynton Merrill, Jr.
Dr. Elvis Stahr, Jr.*
Mr. Christopher Trower
Mr. Earl Wallace*
Mr. Wilson Wyatt, Sr.*
Mr. William T. Young, Jr. *

* Deceased