The Board of Trustees elected three new charter trustees James G. Coulter '82, Marye Anne Fox, PhD '74 and Gregg L. Engles '79 in its spring meeting on Friday, according to a College press release. The Board elected Chairman of the Board Stephen Mandel to a second term and announced that Leon Black '73 will retire after his second term on the Board and that Stephen Smith '88 will resign after completing his first term.
Coulter is a founding partner of private investment firm TPG Capital, which manages over $50 billion in assets, according to the release. He serves on Stanford University's board of trustees, as well as the boards of J. Crew, Neiman Marcus, Creative Artists Agency, Lenovo, IMS Health and Vincraft Group.
While at the College, Coulter was a member of the Rugby Club, Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and Sphinx senior society, according the release. Coulter, who previously served on the Class of 1982 Reunion Giving Committee, received an MBA from Stanford.
Coulter's daughter will matriculate as a member of the Class of 2015 in the fall, the release said.
Fox is chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and is a chemistry professor. She received the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor given in the United States, from President Barack Obama in 2010.
Fox served on former President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and as a science advisor to Bush while he was the governor of Texas, the press release said. She is currently a board member of W.R. Grace, Red Hat, the Council on Competitiveness, the Welch Foundation, the Association of American Universities and University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation.
Fox received a PhD in organic chemistry from Dartmouth in 1974. She graduated from Notre Dame College in Ohio before receiving her master's from Cleveland State University, according to the press release.
Engles, chief executive officer and founder of Dean Foods Company, received his JD from Yale University. Engles is also a trustee on the boards of the Yale Law School Fund, the Hockaday School, Children's Medical Center Dallas, Southwestern Medical Foundation and GMA, according to the press release.
Engles has served as a participation agent of the Class of 1979 Reunion Giving Committee, and his wife, Molly Engles, is a current member of the President's Leadership Council. He was a member of Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity while an undergraduate at the College, the release said.
The Board also approved the creation of five endowed professorship the Roth Family Distinguished Professorship, the William Morrill Professorship, and the Ralph Butterfield Professorship at the College, as well as the Zdenek Bakala Tu'89 Professorship and The Roth Family Distinguished Professorship at the Tuck School of Business, according to the release.
