Jean G. Spaulding

Jean Spaulding, a Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, is in the private practice of psychiatry for children, adolescents and young adults. She has served on the Board since 2002. In 1972, she became the first African American woman to graduate from Duke University School of Medicine. She has served as a Director of Cardinal Health Corporation and as the Vice-Chairperson of the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation. She serves on the Durham board of Wells Fargo Bank. She is an Emeritus Director of ExCo. Spaulding was appointed as the inaugural Chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission at the request of then Gov. Beverly Perdue. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and on the board of Copernicus IRB.