The Board of Trust’s mission is to help Vanderbilt University achieve its goal to become one of the top ten research and teaching universities in America and to be admired for its service to the community.
The Mission Statement of Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a center for scholarly research, informed and creative teaching, and service to the community and society at large. Vanderbilt will uphold the highest standards and be a leader in the
- quest for new knowledge through scholarship,
- dissemination of knowledge through teaching and outreach,
- creative experimentation of ideas and concepts.
In pursuit of these goals, Vanderbilt values most highly
- Intellectual freedom that supports open inquiry,
- equality, compassion and excellence in all endeavors.
Officers
Members
Trustees Emeriti
- Mary Beth Adderley (La Jolla, CA)
- Michael L. Ainslie (Palm Beach, FL)
- Lee M. Bass (Fort Worth, TX)
- Darryl D. Berger (New Orleans, LA)
- Dennis C. Bottorff (Nashville, TN)
- Thomas F. Cone (Nashville, TN)
- Cecil D. Conlee (Atlanta, GA)
- Mark F. Dalton (Palm Beach, FL)
- Claiborne P. Deming (El Dorado, AR)
- H. Rodes Hart (Brentwood, TN)
- Joanne F. Hayes (Gulf Stream, FL)
- Martha R. Ingram (Nashville, TN)
- J. Hicks Lanier (Atlanta, GA)
- Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C. (Notre Dame, IN)
- Jackson W. Moore (Memphis, TN)
- Courtney Clark Pastrick (Bethesda, MD)
- David W. Patterson, M.D. (Washington, D.C.)
- Ross Perot, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
- Joe L. Roby (New York, NY)
- Robert C. Schiff, Jr., M.D. (Cincinnati, OH)
- Eugene B. Shanks, Jr. (Greenwich, CT)
- Richard H. Sinkfield (Atlanta, GA)
- Cal Turner (Franklin, TN)
- J. Stephen Turner (Nashville, TN)
- Eugene H. Vaughan (Houston, TX)
- Dudley Brown White (Nashville, TN)
- W. Ridley Wills II (Nashville, TN)
- J. Lawrence Wilson (Bonita Springs, FL)
- William M. Wilson (Nashville, TN)
- Rebecca Webb Wilson (Memphis, TN)
Code of Bylaws
I wish to call the attention of our Board to the propriety of revising our By-Laws. Of nothing am I more fully persuaded than of the evil consequences of retaining in the code a Law which you dare not enforce...
- CHANCELLOR GARLAND
in his report to the Board, 1890
NASHVILLE
Incorporating amendments through November 10, 2022
Chapter I. Board of Trust
A. Membership and Procedures of the Board of Trust
B. Officers of the Board of Trust
C. Committees of the Board of Trust
Chapter II. Immediate Government of the University
General Provisions
The Chancellor
The Faculties
The Faculty Assembly and the Faculty Senate
Chapter III.
Contact Us
Board of Trust
Phone: (615) 322-1813
boardoftrust@vanderbilt.edu