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Helping Families Ensure Their Children Enter School Ready to Learn

2019-2020 Board of Trustees

Board President

Vicki Adams

Chief Risk Officer
VyStar Credit Union

Vice President

Thabata Batchelor

Director, Centers of Distinction
Wolfson Children’s Hospital

Immediate Past President

Derrick Smith

Principal
Grand Central Ventures, LLC

Treasurer

Secretary

Fr. Wiley Ammons, Rector

Regional Canon
Diocese of Florida

Yared Alula

Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
PGA Tour, Inc.

Destinee Disher

Audit-Senior Manager,
Grant Thornton

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard

Bishop of Florida
Episcopal Diocese of Florida

Bob Ohrablo

President
Jacksonville Icemen

Sara Pomposo

Market President & Publisher
Jacksonville Business Journal

Christine H. Smith

Director Heart Hospital, Patient Relations,
Baptist Health

Karen Estella Smith

Karen Estella Strategy & Communications

Susan F. Wildes

Senior Program Manager
Florida Blue Foundation

Christian Winterbottom, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum,
University of North Florida

Head Start Policy Council Liaison

Malachi Beyah

President & CEO,
M & M Maintenance Plus, Inc.

Legacy Council

The ECS Legacy Council is a committee primarily made up of past Children’s Champion honorees.  The purpose of the Legacy Council is to create a lasting reminder of the many generous gifts the various Legacy Council members have given to the community’s children in their own unique and compassionate way. The members will help introduce people in our community to the good work of ECS, assist in hosting the Children’s Champion event, and play a key role in selection of the Children’s Champion honoree each year.

  • John D. Baker, II
  • J.F. Bryan, IV
  • Connie Hodges
  • Betsy Ross Lovett
  • Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Newton, Jr.
  • Pamela Y. Paul
  • The Hon. John Peyton
  • Delores Barr Weaver
  • Dr. Warner Webb
  • Dr. Albert Wilkinson, Jr.*
  • Wells Fargo

*Deceased