Forsyth's Treadwell Elected to Mercer University Board of Trustees

MACON, GA (11/22/2013)(readMedia)-- Mercer University's Board of Trustees at its annual meeting on Nov. 22 elected the Honorable Marc Treadwell, of Forsyth, to serve a five-year term on the institution's governing body. Treadwell is currently U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Georgia. He earned his Juris Doctor from Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law in 1981 and has been an adjunct faculty member at the School of Law since 1998.

Treadwell is a former partner in the Macon law firm of Adams, Jordan & Treadwell. He served as an associate (1985-1987) and partner (1988-2000) with the law firm of Chambless, Higdon & Carson. From 1981-1985, he served as an associate for the Atlanta law firm of Kilpatrick & Cody (now Kilpatrick Stockton).

Treadwell earned his Bachelor of Arts from Valdosta State University in 1978. He was the faculty adviser for the Walter F. George School of Law's intrastate moot court team from 1986-1990.

Also joining the board for new five-year terms were Heather Darden, corporate counsel at RaceTrac Petroleum, from Atlanta; A.V. Elliott, founder of Elliott Machine Shop, from Macon; O. Gene Gabbard, businessman, from Cary, N.C.; William J. (Bill) Ireland Jr., senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Dalton; Spencer B. King III, physician, professor of medicine and director of the Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center at Emory University, from Atlanta; Zell Miller, former U.S. senator and Georgia governor, from Young Harris; James W. Thomas Jr., partner with Arnold & Porter LLP, from Arlington, Va.; and the Honorable Hugh P. Thompson, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, from Milledgeville.

Additionally, G. Marshall Butler Sr., chairman of Butler Automotive Group, from Forsyth, is among the outgoing Board of Trustees members.

About Mercer University

Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University enrolls more than 8,300 students in 12 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing, health professions, and continuing and professional studies – on campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah – and four regional academic centers across the state. The Mercer Health Sciences Center, launched July 1, 2012, includes the University's medical, nursing, health sciences and pharmacy schools. Mercer is affiliated with four teaching hospitals – Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and The Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital in Columbus. The University also has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. It operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program. www.mercer.edu