SNPA FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The SNPA Foundation is led by its officers and a nine-person Board of Trustees.

Trustees are elected to three-year terms by the SNPA Board of Directors.  The trustees, in turn, elect Foundation officers to one-year terms.

The SNPA president serves as an ex-officio member of the Foundation Board of Trustees.
  • Chair
    Donna Barrett
    President, CEO
    CNHI
    Montgomery, AL

  • Vice-Chair
    Lissa Walls Vahldiek
    Chief Operating Officer/Vice President
    Southern Newspapers, Inc.
    Houston, TX

  • Treasurer
    Gregg K. Jones
    Co-Publisher
    The Greeneville Sun
    Greeneville, TN

    • Board of Trustees

  • Steven R. Brandt
    President, Publisher
    The Greenville News
    Greenville, SC

  • Todd H. Carpenter
    President, Chief Operating Officer
    Boone Newspapers, Inc.
    Natchez, MS

  • Walter E. Hussman, Jr.
    Publisher
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
    Little Rock, AR

  • David M. Paxton
    President, CEO
    Paxton Media Group
    Paducah, KY

  • Michael Redding
    CEO
    Halifax Media Group
    Daytona Beach, FL

  • Hal H. Tanner, III
    Publisher
    The Goldsboro News-Argus
    Goldsboro, NC

  • Digby A. Solomon
    Ex-Officio
    President, Publisher, CEO
    Daily Press
    Newport News, VA