Danville, Ky. – Centre College has announced that three new trustees have been elected to the school’s board.
Jim Correll will be installed at the January 2016 board meeting, along with Tao Le. Brian Mefford was installed at the October 2015 meeting.
Jess Corell
Jess Correll founded First Southern Bancorp Inc., parent company of the First Southern National Bank, and particularly enjoys the human side of First Southern’s work.
Correll also heads The River Foundation, a philanthropic outreach of First Southern, and UTG Inc., an insurance holding company. He and his wife, Angela, owners of Plainview Farm in Stanford, Ky., have long supported sustainable family farming, as well as economic development and historic preservation in downtown Stanford, where they have renovated a number of downtown buildings and opened the popular Bluebird restaurant.
Tao Le
Tao Le is an allergist with Central Allergy and Asthma in Elizabethtown, Ky., and has a passion for medical education. He is founder and CEO of MedIQ Learning, has edited more than 15 titles in the First Aid series, and is founder and editor-in-chief of USMLE-Rx, a series of online videos, test banks and flash cards. Le also is associate clinical professor and head of the Allergy and Immunology division at the University of Louisville.
Le, a 1991 Centre graduate, graduated as men’s valedictorian with a B.A. in French and biology, then earned an M.D. at the University of California-San Francisco.
Brian Mefford
Brian Mefford is founder, CEO and chair of Connected Nation Exchange (CNX), which works to expand broadband Internet connections so that people everywhere can access better networks.
He formerly headed Connected Nation, a national nonprofit that works with communities on local and state levels to expand access to broadband connections. A related organization, Edified Center for Connected Campuses (EC3), helps college students nationwide to work with innovative technology and has an office on Centre’s campus. His work to advance broadband expansion and technology has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Economist.
Mefford has a B.S. in economics and earned an M.B.A. from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He was named Centre’s Distinguished Young Alumnus in 2010. He and his wife, Allison Thomas Mefford ’94, live in Alvaton, Ky., with their three children.
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