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Kentucky Derby Festival Board of Directors

This is not your ordinary civic board. No volunteer group brings more commitment, talent and creativity than the 75 devoted members of the Festival's Board of Directors. In addition to chairing many of the Festival's events, this group sets the overall policy for the not-for-profit civic organization. They are the movers and shakers of this community and they are hard at work all year planning the next Derby Festival. You may only see them in wildly-colored Pegasus blazers or behind the wheel of an official Festival Cadillac in the spring, but they often go unnoticed attending meeting after meeting in the dead of winter.

2004 Board Leadership
Chairman of the Board
Carolle Jones Clay
Republic Bank & Trust Co.
Chairman-elect
Dan L. Owens
Frost, Brown, Todd LLC
Immmediate Past Chairman
E. Douglas Hamilton
Metro Louisville
President & CEO
Michael E. Berry
Kentucky Derby Festival
 
Executive Board

James H. Beckett - Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
Clark Bledsoe - Environmental Planning, Inc.
Kathy Cooksie - Metropolitan Sewer District
Carol Goodin - The Fillies Inc.
Judy G. Hess - Caesars Indiana
Timothy D. Moore - Moore Jewelry
Nancy L. Norris - Bank One
Maureen O'Meara - Business First
Dwight D. Riggle
Karl F. Schmitt, Jr. - Churchill Downs Incorporated
Michael A. Shea - Connemara
Suzann C. Thompson
Mark Wheeler - U.S. Bank
Chief Robert C. White - Louisville Metro Police Dept

 
Board of Directors
Board Meeting at the Governor's Mansion last April.

Ralph D. Aguera - Brown-Foreman
Jim Asseff - Louisville Water Company
Col. John E. Aubrey
Yvonne Coleman Bach - Louisville Defender Newspaper
Juanita Beach - Beach Mold & Tool, Inc
Jill J. Bell - Passport Health Plan
Shelly Bishop - Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services
Treva Brockman - Cox Radio Inc.
Mary Broecker - The Fillies Inc.
Carol K. Butler - Office of the Mayor
Jim Carter - WLKY - TV
Abby Clark - The Courier Journal
Butch Cockerill - L G & E
Barbara Cox
Chris Dickinson - Gresham, Smith and Partners
Clay Foreman - City of Jeffersontown
Demetrius Franklin - DA Enterprises
Ben Harper - The Kroger Company
Robert M. Hatfield - Ford Motor Company
Mike Heitz - Metro Parks
Carmen Hickerson - Greater Louisville, Inc.
Wendy A. Jacob - B B & T
Ellen Jones - BellSouth
James O. King, Jr - King & Company, PSC
Bob Klingle - WHAS - TV
Bill Lamb - WDRB - TV
Steve Langford - WAVE 3 TV
Leslie Lathon - Humana Inc.
Janet Lively - University of Louisville
R. Joseph Mittel - Galt House Hotel
Norma V. Oberst - Oberst Corporation
Sally Patton - Hospice
Roy A. Potts - Coca Cola Bottling Co.
Wesley J. Rutledge - Hilliard Lyons
Dale A. Schaefer - Radio One Broadcasting
Stephanie W. Scheller
Tom Schifano - Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Michael L. Seebert
Denny Simonavice - Meijer
Catherine Smith
Daniel Smith - Jillian's
Gail Logan Strange - Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp
Gene Sullivan
William E. Summers V - B B & T
Mark Thomas - Clear Channel Radio
Jeanine P. Triplett - Mercy Academy
Jim Trousdale
Louis I. Waterman - Fore, Miller & Schwartz
Mike Wathen - ADP, Inc.
Russell Watters - PepsiAmericas
Lou Ellen Williams
Sam Winkler - Stock Yards Bank & Trust
Jim Wood - Greater Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau
Harold Workman - Kentucky State Fair Board
Daniel R. Young - Otter Creek Park

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