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USATF
Board welcomes three new members
INDIANAPOLIS –
USA Track & Field’s Board of Directors has
welcomed athlete and activist Jackie Joyner-Kersee,
sports attorney Eve Wright and network television
executive Mickey Carter to its ranks. Wright and
Carter assume independent seats, while Joyner-Kersee
takes the board’s High Performance seat. Board
member Steve Miller has been elected to the
position of board vice chair.
“With Jackie, Eve
and Mickey, we are bringing aboard three
individuals who have achieved the highest levels
of professional accomplishment in sport and in
corporate America,” Chairman and President
Stephanie Hightower said. “They all fit the
profile of what any organization would want in
their board members: successful, accomplished, and
with insight from many areas that will add texture
and depth to our leadership.”
A member of the
National Track & Field Hall of Fame, Joyner-Kersee
won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals
in track and field, spanning four Olympic Games.
She set multiple records during her career and
still holds the world record in the heptathlon and
the American record in the long jump. Recognized
by Sports Illustrated as the greatest
female athlete of the 20th century, she was a
two-time winner of the Jesse Owens Award. Since
retiring from the sport, she has been a community
activist via the Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation
and as a cofounder in 2008 of Athletes for Hope, a
charitable organization of professional athletes
who get involved in charitable causes and inspire
millions of non-athletes to volunteer and support
their communities. The UCLA graduate also works
with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Farm
Foundation to promote the availability and
consumption of healthy foods by Americans and is a
nationally sought-after speaker.
Wright is Vice
President and Associate General Counsel of the
Miami HEAT, where she negotiates and drafts
marketing and sponsorship agreements with
companies ranging from Comcast to American
Airlines, Verizon, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch, United
Healthcare, Sony and countless others. She also
negotiates media rights as well as agreements for
staging concerts in the AmericanAirlines Arena.
She previously was senior director of business
affairs at the LPGA, where among other duties she
handled marketing opportunities, contracts and
governance issues. A graduate of DePauw University
and the University of Indiana School of Law,
Wright has been recognized among the National Bar
Association’s 40 Under 40 Best Advocates and has
received the Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Young
Leader Award.
A communications,
corporate, entertainment and sports attorney,
Carter is vice president of national accounts for
the Fox News Channel in New York, where he manages
relationships with cable and satellite companies,
negotiates agreements and leads the account sales
team. He previously was senior director of
programming for Time Warner Cable, worked as
in-house counsel for Zomba Recording Corporation
and was chief operating officer for
Indianapolis-based SCA Sports & Entertainment,
where he handled personnel, budgets and strategic
planning as well as serving as a talent agent for
entertainers and an agent for professional
athletes. In the 1990s he was a captain in the
U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps,
serving as a criminal prosecutor at Ft. Leonard
Wood. Carter is a graduate of Harvard University
and Notre Dame Law School.
Joyner-Kersee,
Wright and Carter were selected through USATF’s
board nominating process, with a call for
independent-seat nominations being sent to USATF
members in the fall. USATF’s High Performance
Division forwarded three candidates for their open
seat. All nominations were sent to USATF’s
Nomination and Governance Panel – chaired by
Darlene Hickman and including B.J. Palma, Anne
Timmons, Jeff Hartwig, Bob Larsen, Joanna Hayes
and Edrick Floreal – who put forward Joyner-Kersee,
Carter and Wright. USATF’s board of directors
accepted the nominations and the three took part
in their first board meeting on January 18.
For more on
the USATF Board of Directors, visit http://www.usatf.org/About/Committees/Board-of-Directors.aspx
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