2026-27 Board of Directors

E. Frank Bluestein (Ex-officio) is the co-founder of TSC and Senior Advisor. He is the Executive Producer of the Tennessee Arts Academy.

Gay Daughdrill Boyd is the Office Manager of Diversified Trust.

Hon. Rhea Clift (Secretary) serves as Judge of the Germantown Municipal Court.

Nancy R. Copp (Founding Member) is a dedicated philanthropist.

Marcus Fitzgerald Culp is a Senior Human Resources Employee Coordinator/Training Lead for the City of Memphis.

Ronald Edmonds is the founder of Principium-White Oak.

James R. Humphreys is a “philosopher who does private investing — or vice versa.”

Elise L. Jordan is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FedEx Express.

Anne Orgill Keeney is a dedicated philanthropist.

Ernest G. Kelly, Jr. (Immediate Past President) is a retired attorney who had been with Evans Petree, PC since his graduation from law school. 

Pat Casserly Kelly is a dedicated teacher and philanthropist.

Dorothy O. Kirsch is a dedicated philanthropist.

Michael R. Marshall (President) is legal counsel at Evans Petree, PC in Memphis, where he is the co-leader of the Labor and Employment section.

Dan McCleary (Ex-officio) is the founder and Nancy R. Copp Producing Artistic Director of Tennessee Shakespeare Company.

Pete Pranica (Vice President) is the television play-by-play announcer for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, as well as the Chair of TSC’s “Folio of Friends.”

J. Walker Sims(Treasurer) is a Memphis-area attorney.

Owen B. Tabor, Jr. is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon at OrthoSouth specializing in hip and knee replacement.

Deborah Dunklin Tipton is a dedicated philanthropist.

 

Emeritus Members

Barbara B. Apperson (Founding Member) made TSC possible along with her children, Fr. Gary Sturni, and her friends at St. George’s Church in Germantown.

Louise “Weezie” Calandruccio (Founding Member) is a dedicated philanthropist.

Blanche Deaderick (Founding Member) is an award-winning, retired teacher.

Ruth Dunning (1938-2023) was a Founding Member.

John Paul (Jack) Jones (1920-2020) was a Founding Member.

Robert C. “Bobby” Lanier (1929-2019) was a Founding Member.

Hon. Sheryl H. Lipman (Past President; Founding Member) serves as Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

W. Reid Sanders (1949-2025) was a Founding Member.

Milton T. Schaeffer (1927-2024) was a Founding Member.

Margaret Wellford Tabor is a life-long teacher and is honored with TSC’s “Tabor Stage.”

Owen Britt Tabor, MD (Past President) is a veteran, life-long doctor, and is honored, with his wife Margaret, with TSC’s “Tabor Stage.”

Audrey L. Taylor (1917-2012) was a Founding Member.

George Walters (1930-2019) was the Founding Board President.