Current:

• Past Chair: Polk County Economic Development Commission
• Trustee: Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
• Board of Directors:      
  • The Marketing Alliance, a publicly traded company serving life insurance brokers nationwide
  • Pavillon, a 50-bed substance abuse treatment and recovery center
• Board of Advisors:
  • UNC-Charlotte Center for Global Public Relations
  • UNC-Charlotte College for the Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Environmental Leadership Center, Warren Wilson Colleg

Past positions on boards of directors or boards of advisors:

• North Carolina Chamber of Commerce(formerly the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry); seven years on the executive committee, 16 years on the board of directors
• Charlotte Chamber of Commerce (five years on the board of directors, charter member of the board of advisors)
• The Salvation Army Charlotte Area Command
• Johnson C. Smith University- Board of Visitors
• Central Piedmont Commuity College- President’s Council
• World Affairs Council
• International House
• North Carolina Outward Bound School
• Piedmont Paddlers
• Multiple Sclerosis Chapter for the Greater Carolinas
• Executives Association for Greater Charlotte (president 1981)
• Upstairs Artspace