Board of Trustees
2024-2025 Board of Trustees
Thabata Ford
Chair
Joy Farris
Vice Chair
Jeanne Lightcap
Treasurer
Karyn Kern Carroll
Secretary
Yared Alula
Deputy General Counsel TMRW Sports
Fr. Wiley Ammons, Rector
Regional Canon Diocese of Florida
Joel C. Chamberlain, CPA/PFS, MACC
Founding Partner, Financial Solution Advisors, PLLC
Aaron Ellinger
VP of Organizational Development and Executive Coach RF-SMART
Destinee Disher Swanson
Audit-Senior Manager, Grant Thornton LLP
Dwight Irvin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor University of Florida, Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies
Antonia Knox
Head Start Policy Council Liaison
Dr. Adrien Malek-Lasater
Assistant Professor
Matthew Ohlson, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Taylor Leadership Institute…
Tommie Reilly
Managing Director CBRE Advisory & Transaction Services
Christine H. Smith
Director Heart Hospital, Patient Relations Baptist Health
Karen Estella Smith
Strategy & Communications
John R. Thomas
Shareholder, Smith Hulsey & Busey
Legacy Council
The ECS Legacy Council is a committee primarily comprised 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
- Martha Frye Baker
- J.F. Bryan, IV
- Peggy Bryan
- The Hon. John A. Delaney
- Connie Hodges
- Betsy Ross Lovett*
- Mr. Russell B. Newton, Jr.*
- Mrs. Russell B. Newton, Jr.
- Davy Parrish
- Pamela Y. Paul
- The Hon. John Peyton
- Delores Barr Weaver
- Dr. Warner Webb
- Dr. Albert Wilkinson, Jr.*
*Deceased
