Governing Board

The University of Arizona Alumni Association’s governing board is comprised of up to 23 directors who are responsible for the management and corporate affairs of the association, including oversight of the budget and financial investments. This board is a 501(c)(3) non-profit board incorporated in Arizona. 

The governing board works through a committee structure that oversees the association’s strategic plan and the various programming areas of the Alumni Association, which are designed to establish a lifelong relationship that begins with our current students and continues to ensure a "Wildcat for Life" tradition that keeps alumni connected to the UA and their colleges.

Executive Officers/Executive Committee

The officers of the association are: the chair, chair-elect, the vice-chair/secretary and the most recent past chair available to serve. Under the association’s bylaws, the vice-chair/secretary position is in a line of automatic succession to assume the positions of chair-elect, chair, and then past chair. The governing board has established a succession planning policy that encourages current governing board members to consider leadership positions.

Governing Board
Jessie Bustamante '06 Scottsdale, Arizona Chief advancement officer — Arizona Centers for Comprehensive Education and Life Skills (ACCEL)
Brad Butler '90 '94 Phoenix, Arizona Physician, Maricopa Medical Center Associate professor of emergency medicine — University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
Dana Campbell '81 '84 Carrollton, Texas Attorney —  Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta, PC
Chantall Hammond '98 Denver, Colorado Technology consultant - AIM Consulting
Lisa Harter '83 Alexandria, Virginia Development officer, Major Gifts — Carnegie Institution for Science
Gain Jue '07 '12 Seattle, Washington Senior finance manager —  Microsoft Corporation
Cindy Klingberg '88 Tucson, Arizona Retired — Program operations manager, Raytheon
Shelly Lowe '97 '05 Cambridge, Massachusetts Executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program
Charles Lucero '91 Kingman, Arizona President and CEO — K&L Investments, LLC.
Chad Marchand '14 '15 Tucson, Arizona Vice president — National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development
Don Powell '69 '72 Paradise Valley, Arizona Attorney — Carmichael and Powell, PC
Graven Prest '10 Wheat Ridge, Colorado Chief operating officer — niolabs
Kim Grace Sabow '90 Phoenix, Arizona President and CEO — Arizona Lodging and Tourism Association
Cortez Smith '96  Casa Grande, Arizona Manager, business consulting — Eller College of Management
Kerry Stratford '87 Tucson, Arizona President — Caliber Group
Annette Tanori '98 Scottsdale, Arizona Senior operational excellence manager, Global Real Estate — Silicon Valley Bank
Benjamin Taylor '04 Phoenix, Arizona Attorney — Law Office of Benjamin Taylor
Lucia Valencia '12 Yuma, Arizona Public affairs coordinator — City of Yuma