ALC - Key Persons


Ann Herr

Job Titles:
  • Secretary to the President

Anthony Yonts

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Arlene Watts

Job Titles:
  • Business Office Manager

Ben Park

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Brandon Gayheart

Job Titles:
  • Director of Security

Brittney Adams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Charles Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Chuck Stamper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

David Hatfield

Job Titles:
  • Athletics Director

David Martin

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Dr. Allison Southard

Job Titles:
  • Associate VP for Institutional Advancement
  • Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Dr. Jim Stepp - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • President of the College

Dwight J. Baum

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Eddie Scarberry

Job Titles:
  • Director of Management Information Systems and Telecommunications

Gary Conley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

George Nichols III

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Glen Hale

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Henry Webb

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Hilda G. Legg-Potter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice - Chairman of the Board

Jann Stamper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Second Vice President

Janna Vice

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Jeannie Galloway

Job Titles:
  • Director of McGaw Library and Learning Center

Jennifer Hall

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Communications

Jerry C. Davis - President

Job Titles:
  • President
Jerry C. Davis was appointed president in 1977. His eleven-year tenure was marked by the creation of an accredited four-year, liberal arts college; the founding of The June Buchanan School (grades K-12); the expansion of a number of campus facilities, including a new library, classrooms, and a performing arts center; and the augmentation of campus programs, student enrollment, and institutional endowment. Since the College became a four-year institution in 1982, hundreds of students have earned baccalaureate degrees, and many alumni have completed graduate and professional programs at little or no personal cost through the continued support from Alice Lloyd College. Many of these graduates have returned to the mountains as teachers, physicians, attorneys, and other leaders of their communities.

Jerry L. Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Jerry Wayne Slone

Job Titles:
  • President of the Board of Directors
Jerry Wayne Slone, President (1978) - Pippa Passes, Kentucky

Jessie Wilks

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Business Affairs

Joe A. Stepp

Job Titles:
  • Chancellor
Joseph Alan Stepp was named president in April 1999. He is the first native Appalachian to assume the president's position at Alice Lloyd College. During President Stepp's tenure, the endowment has increased from $12.2 million to $34.4 million (nearly 200%). In recent years, the College has been featured in national media such as U.S. News & World Report as the top college in America for graduating students with the least amount of debt and Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most financially fit colleges in America. Over the past fifteen years, Alice Lloyd College has spent roughly $20 million on numerous major construction/renovation projects (not counting various other improvements) and technology upgrades. Some of these projects include restoration of two historic buildings, Cushing Hall and the Commodore Slone Building, renovation of men's and women's dormitories, major renovations to the Caney Cottage dormitory in Lexington, Kentucky, renovation of the McGaw Library and construction of a Center for Entrepreneurship and Collaborative Learning, and the expansion of recreational and athletic facilities. President Stepp has also overseen the expansion of our business program to include majors in entrepreneurship and accounting, a minor in entrepreneurship and core concentrations in management, e-marketing, leadership, finance, healthcare administration, e-commerce, and management information systems, and has added majors in kinesiology, sociology, special education and a dual-degree in nursing. Through all of this, the College remains debt-free. The community of Pippa Passes derives its name from the verse drama Pippa Passes, written by the British poet Robert Browning. The character of Pippa is a little girl who works in the sweat shops of Italy in the mid-19th Century. On her only holiday of the year, she "passes" through the villages of her countryside, singing the now popular refrain:

Jonathan Blair

Job Titles:
  • Director of Foundation and Corporate Giving
  • Director of Foundations and Corporate Giving

Julie Davis Hopkins

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Kala Thornsbury

Job Titles:
  • Registrar

Karen R. Sellers

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Kerry Ratliff

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Work Program

Kevin Smith

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Kimberly Jones

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Lace Halcomb-Patton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Larry Adams

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources and Risk Management

Larry M. Leslie - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

Lowell D. Martin

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Margo Sparkman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development
  • Ex - Officio Member
  • Alumni Relations Assistant
For 42 years, Margo has passionately served Alice Lloyd College through several managerial positions primarily in the department of Institutional Advancement. Some of the positions that she held are Director of Gift Receipting, Director of Donor Relations and Publications, Director of Planned Giving, Director of Development, and Direct Mail Specialist. Margo stepped out of retirement to serve the College as the Alumni Relations Assistant in 2022. All of her hard work has not gone unnoticed. She earned ALC's Leadership in Service Award/Campus Employee of the Year Award in 2011 and 2019.

Marsha Caudill

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Menefee Huff

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator
  • Project Manager

Nikki Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Paul Thornsberry

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Pauline Collins-Triplett - VP

Job Titles:
  • First Vice President
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Rachel D. Mullinax

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Robert M. Duncan Jr. - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Member of the Officers Team

Robert W. Finley Sr.

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Ryan Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Physical Plant

Scott Cornett

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Student Affairs

Sheilah Jones Ratliff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Steven Neil Middleton

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Teresa Slone Grender

Job Titles:
  • Ex - Officio Member
  • Director of Alumni Relations
Teresa Slone Grender is a 1977 graduate of Alice Lloyd College. Teresa has served as Director of Alumni Relations since 1991. Prior to returning to ALC, Teresa was Assistant Manager of Mountain Broadcasting Service, Inc., in Hazard, Kentucky, for twelve years. Teresa grew up in the Pippa Passes community where her father, Archie Slone, was postmaster for thirty-five years, and her mother, Shirlene Slone, operated the ALC Student Store. Teresa's husband, Arnemann Grender, is a former ALC mathematics and science instructor. They have one son, Aspen. The Grender family resides on Caney Mountain in Pippa Passes.

Timothy T. Siebert

Timothy T. Siebert assumed the presidency in September 1995. He came to the College with a thorough understanding of the college enterprise and with seven years' experience in development work. Dr. Siebert left the College in December 1998 to return to his home state of Missouri.

William Hayes - President

Job Titles:
  • President
Alice Lloyd's dictum, "The leaders are here," became the inspirational impetus for what is now Alice Lloyd College. She was joined three years later by June Buchanan, a native of Syracuse, New York. Sharing Alice Lloyd's mission, Miss Buchanan served the College until her death in 1988 at the age of 100. Together, Alice Lloyd and June Buchanan chartered Caney Junior College in 1923. Following the death of Mrs. Lloyd in 1962, William Hayes became president and served until 1977. Under his leadership, the College launched a capital improvement campaign, which included construction of a water-treatment facility, three student residence halls, an administrative office building, a science building, and an athletic facility.

William J. Reik

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Wins Talent

Job Titles:
  • Student