LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Ed Drilling,
president of SBC Southwestern Bell, and Kathy Alexander, senior
vice president of CenterPoint Energy Arkla, are new members of the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Foundation Fund
Board.
The UAMS Foundation Fund Board
offers support and advice to the Chancellor of UAMS and the vice
chancellor for development and alumni affairs. John Schlereth of
Little Rock is chairman of the board.
Drilling joined Southwestern Bell
in 1979. He spent 15 years in various operations positions
including customer service and marketing, and seven years in
external affairs.
Drilling is involved in many
statewide and community organizations, including advisory boards
or executive committees of Arkansas Children's Hospital, Arkansas
State Chamber of Commerce, Sam M. Walton College of Business, and
UAMS Arkansas BioVentures, as well as the Governor's Information
Technology Oversight Committee. He also serves on the boards of
the University of Arkansas 2010 Commission, Public Education Forum
of Little Rock, Region's Advisory Board, the Greater Little Rock
Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee, Pulaski County United Way
Campaign Cabinet Committee and the Big Brothers Big Sisters
Executive Committee. A native of Morrilton, Ark., Drilling holds a
bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville and is a graduate of Emory University's Advanced
Management Program.
Alexander handles regulatory,
legislative, and legal affairs for CenterPoint Energy Arkla in
five states. She joined Arkla, the predecessor company to
CenterPoint Energy Arkla, in 1985 as assistant general counsel and
assistant vice president. She was general counsel and vice
president from 1986 to 2000, when she became senior vice
president. She was named one of the Top 100 Women in Arkansas by
the newspaper Arkansas Business in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and
1999.
She is a member of the boards of
the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, the Little Rock Regional
Chamber of Commerce and Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy
Institute (CARTI). She has served on the boards of numerous other
organizations in Arkansas, including the Keep America Beautiful
Commission, Ballet Arkansas, the Visiting Nurse Association, the
Society for the Prevention of Blindness and the Central Arkansas
Area Agency on Aging. Alexander holds a law degree and a B.S. in
business administration from the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, and a master's in education from the University of
Alabama.
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