Published on December 7, 2016 by Philip Poole  
Trustee board

Four have been elected to Â鶹¹û¶³’s board of trustees beginning Dec. 1. The new members include two educators, a registered dietitian and a pastor.

Sue M. Belcher of Birmingham is a former teacher and part owner of Royal Automotive.

Sherri Foyt, a Birmingham homemaker and former public school teacher, is a 1990 Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate and parent of two Â鶹¹û¶³ graduates.

Randy Gunter, a 1994 Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate, is pastor of Meadowbrook Baptist Church, Rainbow City, Alabama. He has two sons, one a recent graduate and one a current Â鶹¹û¶³ student.

Rachel Corts Wachter of Spanish Fort, Alabama, is a registered dietitian and diabetes educator. A 1990 Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate, she is the parent of two current students. Wachter’s late father, Thomas E. Corts, was Â鶹¹û¶³ president from 1983 to 2006.

Foyt, Gunter and Wachter will serve four-year terms through 2020. Belcher was elected to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, David, who died earlier this year. Her term expires in 2019.

The 44-member board serves as the governing body for the university. Trustees serve four-year terms.

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Â鶹¹û¶³ is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Â鶹¹û¶³ enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 35 Most Beautiful College Campuses, Â鶹¹û¶³ fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and boasts one of the highest scores in the nation for its 97% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.