National Advisory Board
The Honorable John & Margaret Dalton
Chairman, CRI National Advisory Board; Former Secretary of the Navy; President, Housing Policy Council, Financial Services Roundtable
The Honorable E.C. “Pete” Aldridge
Former Secretary of the Air Force; Chairman, President’s Commission on Moon, Mars & Beyond
Camille Alexander
Head of Global Sales and Distribution, BNY Mellon
Burnadine Anderson
Assistant Superintendent, Caddo Parish School System (retired); Chief Assistant to the Mayor, City of Shreveport (retired); Chair, CRI Board of Directors
Dr. Ray Belton
President/Chancellor, Southern University System, Baton Rouge
Michelle Briggs
Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Avedis Foundation, Shawnee Oklahoma (retired)
Kix Brooks
Professional Musician, Brooks & Dunn; Host, American Country Countdown
John C. Calhoun
Senior Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice; Founder, Former President & CEO National Crime Prevention Council
John D. & Jane Caruthers
President, I-69 Mid-Continent Highway Coalition (retired)
Charles E. Cook, Jr. & Lucy Cook
Editor/Publisher, The Cook Report
Dr. Ronald L. Cook
Director, Doctor of Ministry Degree Program, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University (retired)
Steve Danzansky
Attorney; Member DC Board of Elections & Ethics; Former Director of International Economic and Cabinet Affairs for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Education (retired)
Don & Sallie Davis
CEO, Rockwell International Corp. (retired)
Linda Fuller Degelmann
Co-Founder, Fuller Center for Housing and Habitat for Humanity (retired)
Dr. W. Paul Farmer
CEO, American Planning Association (retired)
Michael Garrison
Professor of Architecture, University of Texas School of Architecture; Cass Gilbert Teaching Fellow; Research Fellow UT-Austin Energy Institute Graduate Advisor
Robert E. Hall
Author, Consultant, Speaker, and Relationships Expert. Author of the Best Selling This Land of Strangers (2012)
Virginia Harris
President, Harris Association; former Chair of the Christian Science Board of Directors
Kathy Harrison
Philanthropist
Dr. Jim Henderson
President, University of Louisiana System
Arthur L. Herold
Managing Partner, Webster, Chamberlain, & Bean
Dr. Raymond A. Hicks
Former President of Grambling State University
Dr. Chris Holoman
President, Centenary College of Louisiana
Connie Currier Holoman
Senior Advisor, Council of Independent Colleges (Washington, DC)
Phillip & Mary Amelia Howell
CEO & President, The Frost Foundation
Senator J. Bennett & Mary Johnston
Former U.S. Senator; CEO, Johnston & Associates
The Honorable Margaret G. Kibben
Chaplain, U.S. House of Representatives; Former Chief of Chaplains of U.S. Navy
Dr. Don C. Mills
Distinguished Professor of Education & Former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Texas Christian University
Floyd K. Morris, Jr.
Former President of Children’s Futures, and former Senior Program Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
William J. O’Brien
Chairman and CEO of O’Brien Energy
David & Claudia Oliver
David Oliver, Tax Partner with Carr, Riggs and Ingram (retired) has been volunteering as Chief Financial Advisor for CRI since 1994 . Claudia has been volunteering with CRI since 1994 as well as Founding President of the Women of CRI
Ravish Patwardhan, MD
Founder, Innovate Our World
Dr. Rhonda Davis Poirier & Rick Poirier
Managing Partner, Trega Partners International, LLC
Sally Prouty
Former Senior Fellow PACE, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, Interim CEO National Conference on Citizenship, CEO The Corps Network and Deputy Director Ohio Department of Natural Resources
The Honorable Joe R. Reeder
Former Undersecretary of the Army; Partner, Greenberg Traurig
Jim Reining
Senior Vice President, System Development Division, STR
Dr. David Rowe
President, The Windermere Group, LLC.; former President, Centenary College
Scott & Diane Sealy
CEO, Sealy Companies
Deno Seder
CEO, Deno Seder Productions
Steve Skrivanos
CEO, Skrivanos Engineering
David Snell
President, Fuller Center for Housing
Sterling Speirn
Interim President and CEO, Maine Community Foundation; former CEO, The Kellogg Foundation; former CEO, The National Conference on Citizenship
Ralph Taylor
Chairman of the Board, Taylor Companies
David Toms
Professional Golfer; CEO, David Toms Foundation
Thomas J. Williams
President, Williams Financial Advisors
Amos Winbush, III
Founder, CEO Cyber-Synchs, LLC
In Memory Of Past Board Members:
Don Beeler
President & CEO, Christus Santa Rosa Health System
Dr. Harry Blake
Pastor, Mt. Canaan Missionary Baptist Church Shreveport, Louisiana
Bishop Friend
Founding Bishop, Shreveport Diocese Catholic Church
The Honorable Robert C. “Bud” McFarlane
CEO, McFarlane & Associates; Former National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan
