Board Members

LexLinc’s Board of Commissioners consists of local community leaders that include:

Business and civic leaders
Community representatives and activists
Human service professionals
Representatives from the neighborhoods and demographic groups who receive services -at least 25% of the Board must represent families and neighborhoods that are served through LexLinc initiatives

The Board of Commissioners also includes nonvoting representatives from:

The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
The LexLinc Provider Cabinet
LexLinc Staff

Executive Committee

President of the Board
Don Ball

President, Ball Homes

Vice President
Eunice Beatty

Retired

Secretary-Treasurer

Bob Voll

Consultant, Sr. Human Resource Manger (retired), Ashland Inc.

Chair, Nominations
Priscilla Johnson

Minority Affairs Office
Administrative Offices of the Courts
President, State Commission on Human Rights

Members

Sharrieffa Barksdale

Goodwill Industries of Kentucky

Bob Cohen

CPA (retired)

Martha DeReamer

President, The Matrix Group

Jaye Forsythe
Employment Consultant, OWL

Valerie Heard

Citizens Leadership Academy Graduate

Claudia Heath

Associate Dean, University of Kentucky

Lisa Higgins-Hord

Assistant Vice-President for Community Engagement,

University of Kentucky

Pastor Everett Hobson

Quinn Chapel

Florence Huffman

President, Clark Publishing

Paulette Jones

Office for Employment and Training

Rabbi Marc Kline

Temple Adath Israel

Vivian Lacey

Community Advocate, Lexington Fayette Urban Co. Government

Rick Loghry

Action Speak LLC

Jacobi Malone

Community Relations Specialist, LexMark

Alice Nelson
Family Community Liaison, Fayette Co. Public Schools

Karen Rowland

Central Bank

Ed Sagan

Dean Emeritus, University of Kentucky

Daryl Smith

Economic Development Executive, Kentucky Utilities

Lisa Smith
Communications Manager, Columbia Gas

Nichole Talbert

McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie & Kirkland, PLLC

Neighborhood Partners

Joan Brannon

ARTS Power

Dora Hudson

West End Community Empowerment Center

Mattie Morton

Gainesway Empowerment Center

Isabel Taylor

Multicultural Affairs Coordinator for LFUCG

Dorothy Coleman

Southend Community Empowerment Center

Ex Officio

Jeri Allison

Director, Family Counseling Services

(Provider Cabinet Representative)

Wanda Bertram
Executive Director, LexLinc

Mark Cornett

Cabinet for Health and Family Services

Marlene Helm

Commissioner, Social Services

Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government

Grace Akers
Community Based Services

Cabinet for Health and Human Services

Who We Are

Board Members

Who We Are