Trustees from Little Rock
by January 24, 2000 12:00 am 88 views
William E. “Bill” Clark
Home town: Little Rock
Resides: Little Rock
Appointed by: Then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker
Term expires: March 1, 2004
Education: University of Arkansas, bachelor’s degree, electrical engineering, 1965
Business: Chairman and CEO, CDI Inc.
Connections: Son and daughter both earned degrees at the UA
Board positions: St. Vincent’s Infirmary, Arkansas Art Center Foundation
Frances A. Cranford
Resides: Little Rock
Appointed by: Then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker
Term expires: March 1, 20006
Education: Attended Randolf Macon Women’s College, 1959-61; University of Arkansas at Little Rock, bachelor of arts in humanities, 1965.
Connections: Secretary of the UA Board of Trustees; married to J. Wayne Cranford, co-owner of Little Rock advertising firm Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods; was Miss Arkansas in 1961 and runner-up to Miss America; chosen the Arkansas Democrat’s “Woman of the Year” in 1962; former KARK-TV, Channel 4 in Little Rock, weather and news announcer
Board positions: Arkansas Nature Conservancy, Future Little Rock Education Task Force; past president of the Junior League of Little Rock Sustainers, the Fine Arts Club of Arkansas and a former member of the UA Alumni Board
Joe L. Hargrove
Resides: Little Rock
Appointed by: Then-Gov. Bill Clinton
Term expires: March 1, 2002
Education: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, bachelor of science in biology; Tuskegee Institute, master’s degree in education; Case Western Reserve University, medical degree.
Business: Medical cardiologist in private practice in Little Rock. Assistant clinic professor of medicine and cardiology at UAMS
Board positions: Boy Scouts of America, UAMS Dean’s Advisory Committee, United Healthcare Inc.; past-chairman of the Association of Black Cardiologists and a lifelong member of the NAACP