Board of Trustees
The governance of Morris College is vested in a board of trustees whose responsibilities include establishing broad institutional policies, securing financial resources to support adequately the program of the college, selecting the president of the college, and selecting, upon recommendation of the president, the other administrative officers, teachers, and staff of the college. Once the board of trustees has established broad policies, it assigns to the president of the College the responsibility for implementing these policies and for administering the affairs of the college.
The Morris College Board of Trustees is composed of thirty-six members who are elected annually by the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina upon the recommendation of the Committee on the Nomination of Trustees for Morris College. Persons who automatically serve on the board of trustees by virtue of the offices that they hold include the president, the treasurer and the recording secretary of the Baptist State Convention; the president of the Baptist Congress of Christian Education; the president of the Baptist Brotherhood; the president of the State Ushers Auxiliary Convention; the president of the Young Woman’s Auxiliary Association; and the president of the college. The remaining twenty-seven members are elected by the Baptist State Educational and Missionary Convention in regular session and automatically include one member from the faculty of the college, the student body of the college, and the National Alumni Association.
OFFICERS
Chair
The Rev. Dr. Phillip Baldwin
Pastor
Bethlehem Baptist Church
(Simpsonville, SC)
Vice Chair
Mrs. Audrey Potts Neal ’69 (Honorary Doctorate, Morris College, 2018)
Retired Educator
(Columbia, SC)
Secretary
Mr. Troy Glover ’86
K-12 Senior Educational Planner
(Columbus, OH)
Morris College President
Dr. Said Sewell ’92
(Sumter, SC)
TRUSTEES
Faculty/Staff Trustee
Ms. Quanda Sims
Dean of Wellness Outreach
Morris College
(Sumter, SC)
Student Trustee
The Rev. Sheldon Wilson ’27
President, Student Government Association
Morris College
(Sumter, SC)
Trustee
Bishop John T. Brown
Overseer
New Beginning Christian Outreach Ministries
(Florence, SC)
Trustee
Mr. Michael E. Collins
Chair
The Honorable John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation
(Capitol Heights, MD)
Trustee
Ms. Recharda Dawkins ’89
President
Morris College National Alumni Association
(Greenville, SC)
Trustee
Dr. Victoria Dixon-Mokeba ’94
Founding Director
Carolina School for Inquiry
(Blythewood, SC)
Trustee
Mr. Benjamin I. Duncan, II
Chief Resilience Officer
South Carolina Office of Resilience
(Columbia, SC)
Trustee
Rev. Dr. Jamey O. Graham ’98
President
The Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina
Pastor, St. John Baptist Church
(Columbia, SC)
Trustee
Mrs. Mary Alice Graham
President
Woman’s Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina
(Columbia, SC)
Trustee
Rev. Dr. Leonard Griffin ’99
Vice President At-Large of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and
Pastor of Old Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church
(North Augusta, SC)
Trustee
Ms. Contrina Harrison
President
B.E.M.C.S.C. Young Women’s Auxiliary
(Columbia, SC)
Trustee
The Rev. Julie A. Hayes
Pastor
Enon Missionary Baptist
(Sumter, SC)
Trustee
Rev. Dr. Johnny L. Johnson
President of the South Carolina Congress of Christian Education and
Pastor of White Plains Baptist Church of Laurens, SC
(Simpsonville, SC)
Trustee
The Rev. Dr. Charlie Murray
Pastor
First Baptist Church of James Island
(James Island, SC)
Trustee
The Rev. Dr. James Nesbitt
Pastor
Beulah Christian Fellowship
(Fountain Inn, SC)
Trustee
The Rev. Marion H. Newton ’74 (Honorary Doctorate, Morris College)
Pastor
Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church
(Sumter, SC)
Trustee
Rev. Dr. Johnny Nobles
Treasurer of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and
Pastor of Second Nazareth Baptist Church (Columbia, SC)
Trustee
Dr. Lucy Reuben
Retired College Professor and Administrator
(Durham, NC)
Trustee
Mr. Jeryl Salmond
Senior Vice President, Wealth Advisor, Global Sports and Entertainment Director
Morgan Stanley
(Columbia, SC)
Trustee
Ms. Lovie Simmons-Howell
President of the B.E.M.C.S.C. State Ushers’ Convention
(Columbia, SC)
Trustee
Mr. Preston Smith
President
Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina, The Brotherhood Association
(Columbia, SC)
Trustee
The Rev. Dr. Caroles Taylor ’84
Pastor
Morris Street Baptist Church
(Summerville, SC)
Trustee
The Rev. George Washington ’74
Pastor
New Saint Matthew Missionary Baptist Church
(Florence, SC)
Trustee
Mr. James V. Wilson, Sr. ’70 (Honorary Doctorate, Morris College)
CEO
Universal Benefits Marketing Firm, Inc.
(Sumter, SC)
Trustee
Rev. Jeffrey Williams
Pastor of Golden View Baptist Church of Fountain Inn, SC
(Florence, SC)