BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Samford University's presidential search committee has scheduled its first meeting for May 13-14.
The meeting will be organizational, with members discussing the overall search process, a tentative timeline for the search and plans for an information gathering process. The committee expects to seek input from various university constituencies as part of the information gathering, according to search committee officers, although details of that process will be discussed at the first meeting.
The 17-member committee was approved by the University's board of trustees April 14 after current Samford President Thomas E. Corts announced his intention to retire by the end of the 2005-06 academic year. Corts has served as Samford president since 1983 and is only the third president in 66 years.
Former Alabama Gov. Albert Brewer and Birmingham attorney Hobart Grooms are committee co-chairs.
Jay L. Wolf, Jr., has been named to fill the final slot on the committee. Wolf, a member of Samford's board of trustees, is pastor of Montgomery's First Baptist Church. His son Jason is a 2005 Samford graduate, and his daughter Sarah is a current Samford student.