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New Trustees
Tapped
noted civil-rights attorney, a leader in educational technology, a
former professional basketball player, a health-care economist, the
head of General Motors, a medical researcher, and a May graduate have
been elected to Duke’s board of trustees.
Julius L. Chambers Hon. ’96; Kimberly Jenkins ’76,
M.Ed. ’77, Ph.D. ’80; Gary Melchionni ’73, J.D. ’81;
Uwe E. Reinhardt; G. Richard Wagoner Jr. ’75; Lewis T. “Rusty”
Williams M.D./Ph.D. ’78; and Jordan Bazinsky ’01 began their
first terms on the thirty-seven-member governing body July 1.
Five current board members were re-elected to six-year
terms. They are Paula Phillips Burger ’67, A.M. ’74, vice
provost at Johns Hopkins University; philanthropist Melinda French
Gates ’86, M.B.A. ’87; Rebecca Trent Kirkland ’64,
M.D. ’68, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine;
Ernest Mario, chair and chief executive officer of Alza Corp.; and
Charles M. Smith ’62, M.Div. ’65.
Five trustees retired with emeritus status: Samuel H.
Barnes Ph.D. ’57, director of Georgetown University’s Center
for German and European Studies; Paul Hardin ’52, J.D. ’54,
chancellor emeritus and law professor at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill; Susan Bennett King ’62, former Steuben Glass
president; Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke ’67, law professor at Syracuse
University; and A. Morris Williams Jr. ’62, M.A.T. ’67,
president of Williams & Co. Also, Christopher Lam ’98 stepped
down after his three-year term as Young Trustee, as did Gwynne A.
Young ’71, past president of the Duke Alumni Association, who
completed her two-year term as a representative of the alumni association.
Chambers is the past chancellor of North Carolina Central
University and was a civil-rights attorney for a quarter century.
He graduated from UNC Law School first in his class of 100 in 1962
and received a master’s of law degree from Columbia University
in 1963. As an attorney in Charlotte, he helped successfully litigate
landmark U.S. Supreme Court civil-rights cases, including the school-busing
decision Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1971.
In 1992, he resigned as chief executive of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Education Fund to become chancellor of NCCU, from which he graduated
in 1958. As its chief administrator, Chambers launched a major capital
construction effort, still in progress, with substantial renovations
to all student residence halls and most classroom facilities. He retired
June 1.
Jenkins is president of the Internet Policy Institute
and an advocate for innovative uses of technology in education. She
began her high-tech career in 1983 at Microsoft as a software developer,
where she is credited with convincing Bill Gates of the use of personal
computers in education. After four years, she moved to Steve Jobs’
NeXT as director of market development. Before joining the Internet
Policy Institute, a nonprofit research and educational institute studying
Internet economic, social, and policy issues, she founded and chaired
Highway 1, a nonprofit corporation helping government work more effectively
with information technology. In 1999, Jenkins funded a professorship
at Duke focusing on the effect of technology, particularly the Internet,
on society. She has been a member of Duke’s Trinity College board
of visitors and the Council on Women’s Studies and serves on
the Campaign Steering Committee.
Melchionni is president of the Duke Alumni Association.
As an undergraduate, he played basketball for the Blue Devils and
was captain of the team for two years. He won All-ACC First Team honors
in 1973. He went on to play for the Phoenix Suns in the National Basketball
Association from 1973 to 1977. Melchionni is a member of the Stevens
& Lee law firm, working in its Lancaster, Pennsylvania, office.
He is a member of the Rotary Club of Lancaster and a volunteer coach
and organizer for youth basketball programs in the area. During his
term as DAA president, he will be a non-voting observer on the board,
and he will be a voting member next year.
Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy,
teaches economics and public affairs at Princeton University, where
he is a specialist on health-care policy. From 1985 to 1996, he served
on a number of government committees and commissions, including three
consecutive three-year terms on the Physician Payment Review Commission,
established by Congress. In 1999, he was appointed to the National
Advisory Council on Health-Care Policy, Research, and Evaluation.
He is a member of the Council on the Economic Impact of Health Reform
and the board of advisers of the National Institute of Health-Care
Management. In 1997, he was appointed to the World Bank’s external
advisory panel for Health, Nutrition, and Population. He has been
a member of the board of the Duke University Health System since 1997.
Wagoner is president and chief executive officer of General
Motors. He earned his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1977. He is a member
of the board of visitors for Duke’s Fuqua School of Business
and serves on the university’s Campaign Steering Committee. He
joined GM in 1977 as an analyst in New York and then held a number
of international positions. In 1988, he became director of strategic
business planning for the former Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada Group
and, within the year, finance vice president of General Motors Europe.
In 1991, he was named president and managing director of General Motors
of Brazil. He was promoted to chief financial officer of GM in 1992,
and in April 1994 was given the additional role as head of worldwide
purchasing. He was elected president, chief operating officer, and
a member of GM’s board of directors in 1998 and took on the additional
responsibilities of CEO in June 2000.
Williams is president of research and development and
chief scientific officer of Chiron Corp. Before joining Chiron, he
was a professor of medicine at the University of California at San
Francisco (UCSF), where he had been a faculty member since 1984. From
1993 to 1995, he was director of the Daiichi Research Center at UCSF
and, from 1992 to 1994, he directed the university’s Cardiovascular
Research Institute. He also served on the faculties of Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1988, he co-founded
COR Therapeutics. He has received numerous awards and honors, including
the American Heart Association’s recent Basic Research Prize.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of
the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society
of Clinical Investigation, and the International Society of Heart
Research.
Bazinsky is former president of Duke Student Government.
As a “young trustee” for a three-year term, he will be a
non-voting member the first year and a voting member the next two
years. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he majored in public
policy studies at Duke and helped found Durham Direction, a local
volunteer organization. He was honored for his volunteer work with
a William J. Griffith Award during his senior year. Bazinsky also
was a volunteer in a communal orphan village in Kitesh, Russia, in
May 2000. He plans to serve a one-year teaching position at Academia
Cotopaxi in Quito, Ecuador, later in the fall.
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