Nelson C. Andrews

Nelson C. Andrews, a trustee since 1979, is a 1949 graduate of Vanderbilt University. He was elected trustee emeritus in 2003.

The chairman of Brookside Properties, Incorporated, he was the founding president and chairman of many boards and organizations in Nashville, including the Better Business Bureau of Nashville/Middle Tennessee, the Canby Robinson Society, the Davidson County group of the Tennessee Health Care Network, the Girl Scouts Men’s Advisory Board, the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, and Leadership Nashville. He is a past president or chairman of the Tennessee State Board of Education, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Nashville–Davidson County Red Cross, and the Governor’s Commission on Higher Education.

He is a former board member of United Way, Junior League of Nashville, Inc., and Nashville Institute for the Arts. He currently serves on the boards of numerous organizations, including Nashville’s Action Agenda, Leadership Nashville, Montgomery Bell Academy, Country Music Foundation, the YMCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. He is also currently the chairman of the Tennessee Tax Structure Study Commission.

He has been honored with the Pencil Foundation ’s E. Bronson Ingram Award, the Montgomery Bell Academy Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Nashville Public School System’s School Bell Award, the American Cancer Society’s John C. Tune Award, the Kiwanis Outstanding Nashvillian of the Year Award, and the National Council of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award.

He and his wife, Sue, are the parents of Susan, Nelson Carter, Judith, Adam, and Frank, and have seventeen grandchildren.