Donna Barrett nominated for re-election as chairman

Donna Barrett

The SNPA Board of Directors will elect four trustees for the SNPA Foundation at its meeting in Charlottesville on Monday, Oct. 6. 

The trustees, in turn, will elect their officers – also that same morning.

Nominated for re-election as officers of the SNPA Foundation are:

• Chairman: Donna Barrett, president and CEO, Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Montgomery, Ala.

• Lissa Walls Vahldiek	Gregg Jones
  Walter Hussman	Digby Solomon

  Vice Chairman: Lissa Walls Vahldiek, CEO of Southern Newspapers, Inc., Houston, Texas.
• Treasurer: Gregg K. Jones, president and CEO of Jones Media in Greeneville, Tenn., and co-publisher of The Greeneville Sun.

Nominees for election to the board are:

• Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock.
• Gregg K. Jones.
• Lissa Walls Vahldiek.
• Digby Solomon, president, publisher and CEO, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. (ex-officio)

The other members of the SNPA Foundation Board of Trustees are:

• Steven R. Brandt, president, The Greenville News, Greenville, S.C.
• Todd H. Carpenter, president and chief operating officer, Boone Newspapers, Inc., Natchez, Miss.
• William O. Nutting, vice president, Ogden Newspapers, Wheeling, W.Va.
• David M. Paxton, president and CEO, Paxton Media Group, Paducah, Ky.
• Hal H. Tanner III, president and publisher, The Goldsboro News-Argus, Goldsboro, N.C.

Read about nominations for SNPA officers and directors.