Six elected to University Board of Trust

A Georgetown University professor, business executives from Connecticut, Memphis and Nashville, and a graduating senior from Atlanta are the newest members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust.

During its spring meeting April 25-27, the board elected to five-year terms: Sheryll D. Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University; Mark F. Dalton, president and director of Tudor Investment Corporation of Greenwich, Conn.; Orrin H. Ingram II, president and CEO of Ingram Industries in Nashville; and Jackson W. Moore, chairman, president and CEO of Union Planters Corporation in Memphis. Elected to a two-year term was Stephen Riven, managing partner of Avondale Partners in Nashville. Graduating Vanderbilt senior Ibrahim Nasmyth of Atlanta, was elected to a four-year term.

Riven, outgoing president of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association, succeeds John Loomis of Larchmont, N.Y., as an alumni trustee. Nasmyth was chosen from among three graduating seniors to be a Young Alumni Trustee. He succeeds Michele Sena of Nashville.

Cashin graduated from Vanderbilt's School of Engineering, where she was a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholar. She continued her studies at Oxford University and Harvard Law School where she served as editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating from Harvard Law School, she served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Cashin served as director for Community Empowerment under then-Vice President Al Gore from 1995 to 1996. She also worked on the staff of the National Economic Council at the White House. In addition to her teaching duties at Georgetown, Cashin writes about politics, government and the urban poor. She is the author of numerous journal articles and a book titled Drifting Apart: How Wealth and Race Segregation are Reshaping the American Dream. She is a member of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association. In 2000, Cashin received the Walter R. Murray Jr. Distinguished Alumna Award from the Association of Vanderbilt Black Alumni.

Dalton, a 1975 graduate of the Vanderbilt Law School, served in various senior management positions at Kidder, Peabody and Company before assuming his current position with Tudor Investment. He has been president and director of Tudor Investment Corporation in Greenwich, Conn. since 1988. Dalton is also director of Progenics Pharmaceuticals and several private companies as well as a closed-end investment fund listed on the Dublin Stock Exchange. He has served on the Law Alumni Board at Vanderbilt since 1999 and is currently president. He was a member of the national committee and the New York committee for the Campaign for Vanderbilt in the early 1990s. He has been a member of the Dean's Council since 1988 and involved with the College Cabinet and Owen Associates.

A 1982 graduate of Vanderbilt, Ingram has been extensively involved in the support of cancer research at Vanderbilt. He has chaired the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Campaign and the Cancer Center's Board of Overseers and is a member of the Canby Robinson Society. He is president and CEO of Ingram Industries Inc., headquartered in Nashville. He also serves as chairman of Ingram Barge Company and is director of the publicly traded Ingram Micro. Ingram is on a number of boards, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee, Friends of Warner Parks and Center for Nonprofit Management. He is on the Advisory Council of Nashville CARES (Council on AIDS Research, Education and Services) and headed the 2000 fund-raising campaign for the United Way in Nashville.

Moore, a 1973 graduate of the Vanderbilt Law School, is a member of the Law School Alumni Board and served as its president in 1994. He chaired the recent Law School Building Campaign Committee and has been a member of the Dean's Council since 1988. He was a member of the national committee for the Campaign for Vanderbilt. Moore currently is chairman, president and CEO of Union Planters Corporation in Memphis. He also is director of PSB Bancshares Inc. and a vice president and director of its subsidiary, Peoples Southern Bank, located in Clanton, Ala., and Capital Factors Holding Company. Moore served as director of Corrections Corporation of America from 1997 to 2000. He is a member of The Financial Services Roundtable.

Riven, who received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt and attended the Law School, has chaired the University College Cabinet. He has also been a member of the Medical Center Board and the Canby Robinson Society. He is managing partner of Avondale Partners, a securities firm in Nashville. He is on a number of boards, including those of the Equitable Trust Company, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Montgomery Bell Academy. He has been a board member for the Friends of Warner Parks, The Jewish Community Center, The Temple and Harpeth Hall School, to name a few.

Nasmyth, a communications studies and psychology major, is the co-chair for the Multicultural Affairs Committee of the Student Government Association. As a member of Student Government Association's cabinet, he has helped initiate programs to improve multiculturalism and diversity at Vanderbilt, including the foundation of the Diversity Action Group to explore specific academic and social issues related to Vanderbilt's minority populations. He is a member of the Black Student Alliance, Baptist College Ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ and Soul II Soul.