Mercer Board of Trustees Adds Two Savannah Residents

MACON, GA (11/21/2011)(readMedia)-- Mercer University's Board of Trustees elected two Savannah residents, Curtis Anderson and J. Curtis Lewis III, to five-year terms on Nov. 11 during its annual meeting at the University in Macon.

Anderson is a director for the Health Discovery Corp. and Imperial Sugar Co. He is on the board of governors for the Mercer School of Medicine in Savannah and was the chair of the board of trustees of Memorial University Medical Center when the decision was made to partner with Mercer on a new medical school campus in Savannah. He has served in the U.S. Navy and has spent 19 years in the corporate and investment banking field. In 1986, Anderson founded the Anderson Capital Corp., which is a privately held venture capital company. From 1994 to 1999 he served as president and chief operating officer for the Kuhlman Corp. He also worked with the Memorial University Medical Center to found the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Washington.

Lewis is a partner in Hunter and Lewis LLP in Savannah as well as a managing member of Lewis Commercial Properties LLC. He is chair of board of trustees of Memorial University Medical Center, in addition to being the owner of a Ford dealership and a Savannah television station. Lewis has been a member of the board of directors for several local corporate and nonprofit groups, including Savannah Health Mission, Union Mission Inc. and The Savannah Bank. Lewis is a past chair of the board of directors for Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia and the board of deacons for First Baptists Church of Savannah. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctorate from the University of Georgia.

Richmond Hill resident, James Thomas (J.T.) Turner, a 1973 Mercer graduate and president of J.T. Turner Construction Co., completed a five-year term on the Mercer board at the November meeting.

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 major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah and at three regional academic centers across the state. Mercer is affiliated with two teaching hospitals - Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. The University 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. For more information, visit www.mercer.edu.