Museum of Discovery Names New Chair, Chair-Elect and Board Members

Little Rock, AR (March 26, 2018) – The Museum of Discovery announced today that Stuart Jackson, employment lawyer and partner at Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, LLC, has been elected as chairman of its board of directors, and that Elizabeth Childers, PhD, director of financial and statistical analysis at Dillard’s, has been elected chairman-elect. Jackson will serve as board chair in 2018 and 2019 before Childers takes the helm in 2020 and 2021.

The museum also announced today that seven business professionals who work in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields have joined its board of directors for three-year terms that expire Dec. 31, 2020. The seven new museum board members are:

• Chad Jameson, General Manager, I/O Solutions, at Molex
• Cassandra Ramey, Consultant and Application Delivery Engineer at F5 Networks
• Bob Childress, Partner, Frost LLC
• Wade Radke, Chief Operations Officer, Galley Support Innovations
• Jim Hazlewood, Retired Physician and Disability Determination Consultant
• Neill Linebarier, Senior Engineer, CenterPoint Energy
• Bishawn Morris, Pediatrician, The Pediatric Clinic

“We thank Stuart and Elizabeth for their willingness to serve and also owe a big debt of gratitude to Laura Kehler Shue, who chaired our board and led us through a great period of growth the last two years,” says Kelley Bass, CEO at the Museum of Discovery.

“We also are thrilled with our class of new board members,” Bass continued. “Each of these STEM professionals brings a unique background and set of skills to our already dynamic board of directors. Each also demonstrates what each of our 29 board members does: a commitment and dedication to help the museum be successful in pursuing its mission of igniting a passion for science, technology, engineering and math in a dynamic, interactive environment.”

After their first three-year term, the new Museum of Discovery board members will have an option to renew for a second three-year term. They join these members on the museum board:

• Brady Aldy, Entergy, second term expires Dec. 31, 2020
• Tami Bean, Highland Valley United Methodist Church, second term expires Dec. 31, 2018
• Alex Biris, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, second term expires Dec. 31, 2018
• John Burgess, Treasurer, Mainstream Technologies, second term expires Dec. 31, 2019
• Walter Burgess, Power Technology, second term expires Dec. 31, 2018
• Rajesh Chokhani, Welspun Tubular, second term expires Dec. 31, 2019
• Gert Clark, Honorary Life Member
• Megan Eves, Arcadis, first term expires Dec. 31, 2020
• Michael Hansberry, Baldwin & Shell, first term expires Dec. 31, 2018
• Brooke Hicks, Community Volunteer, second term expires Dec. 31, 2018
• Jeff Johnson, ClearPointe, first term expires Dec. 31, 2020
• Katherine Lu, Small World Big Fun, second term expires Dec. 31, 2018
• Michael Nauman, Brady Corporation, second term expires Dec. 31, 2019
• Nathaniel Noble, Secretary, Arkansas Department of Health, second term expires Dec. 31, 2020
• Laura Kehler Shue, Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research, past chair term expires Dec. 31, 2018
• Brad Sims, Pulaski County Title, second term expires Dec. 31, 2019
• Barbara Sugg, Southwest Power Pool, second term expires Dec. 31, 2020
• Clay Stone, Mitchell Williams, second term expires Dec. 31, 2019
• Dennis Watkins, Centennial Bank, second term expires Dec. 31, 2020
• Bob Williams, Simmons Investments, second term expires Dec. 31, 2020