Jacksonville's Jones Named to Mercer Trustees

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Holly J. McCorkle Jones

MACON, GA (11/21/2012)(readMedia)-- Mercer University's Board of Trustees elected Jacksonville's Holly J. McCorkle Jones to serve a five-year term on the Board during its annual meeting on Nov. 9. Jones is a double graduate of Mercer and is a civil litigator with Jones and McCorkle P.A., in Jacksonville.

Jones is a founding member of the Medical Claims Defense Network in Orlando and served on its board for four years and she previously served on the board of a local insurance company. She is active on several community boards, including the board of the Museum of Science and History, chair of the executive board of The Bolles School and a member of the board of trustees of the Jacksonville Zoo, chairing the Zoo's annual benefit. She has also chaired the NFL Wives Players Fashion Show, which benefited The DePaul School, when Jacksonville was host to the Super Bowl.

A 1988 graduate of Mercer's College of Liberal Arts and a 1991 graduate of Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law, Jones served as president of the College of Liberal Arts Alumni Association from 1999 to 2001. Her stepson is freshman soccer player at Mercer and the University's McCorkle Music Building in named in honor of her parents, Allan and Rosemary McCorkle.

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 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing 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, and includes the University's medical, nursing and pharmacy schools and will add a fourth college – the College of Health Professions – on July 1, 2013. 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 Complex 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

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