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ADVISORY BOARD
 Michael DeHaven, Chair 
 Kenneth Balk 
 Susan M. Balk 
 Lynn R. Broeder 
 James Buford 
 Will Carpenter, Ph.D. 
 Christine Chadwick 
 Brian Clevinger, Ph.D. 
 Robert W. Cranston 
 David Greenhaw, Ph.D. 
 John W. Kepler III 
 Paul Koch 
 Linda S. Legg 
 Richard A. Liddy  
 Donna K. Martin 
 Melba R. Moore 
 Joseph Noelker 
 Nancy Edmonds Paull 
 Robert Porter 
 Peter H. Raven 
 Patricia Rich 
 Jane M. Robert 
 Geetha Rao Sant 
 Deborah Schneider 
 Joan Ellyn Silber, Ph.D.
 Sherman Silber, M.D. 
 Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, Ph.D.
 Mary Ann Wyrsch 
EMERITUS MEMBERS
Kathryn Cramer, Ph.D.
Laura Herring
Julian Seeherman


DECEASED MEMBERS
Kathryn Nelson
Harriett F. Woods

James Buford JAMES BUFORD
James Buford has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis since 1985. Mr. Buford chairs the St. Louis Connectcare Board and serves on the Executive Board of the St. Louis Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Board of Downtown St. Louis Partnership, Fair St. Louis, and the St. Louis Science Center. He is Past Chairman and member of the Grand Center Arts District Board. On the state level, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan appointed Mr. Buford as secretary of the St. Louis County Board of Elections in 1993. In 2005, Mayor Francis Slay appointed Buford to the St. Louis Public School Board. His numerous awards and honors include the 2005 Mentor St. Louis Award, 1999 Whitney M. Young Award from the Boy Scouts, the 1995 St. Louis Community College Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Brotherhood-Sisterhood Award presented by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Mr. Buford holds a B.A. in Human Services Administration from Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. He holds honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degrees from Harris-Stowe State College, in 1993; and from the University of Missouri of St. Louis, in 1995; and Webster University, in 2000.







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