Greg Padgett has been named the chairman of the College of Charleston Board of Trustees. Board member Lee Mikell has been re-elected as vice-chairman of the BOT.
Padgett resides in Charleston and was appointed by the Governor in 2008. Padgett is the Chief Financial Officer of Fennell Holdings, Inc., an investment holding company encompassing the hospitality, waste services, real estate, aviation and finance industries. He received his BS degree from the College of Charleston and is a certified public accountant.
He is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants, Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society and Beta Gamma Sigma, a national business honor society. Padgett serves as a member of the College of Charleston School of Business and Economics Advisory Board. He is a past President of the College of Charleston Foundation, a past member of the Charleston Regional Development Alliance, Board of Trustees for the Charleston Stage Company, College of Charleston Cougar Club Board, and a past President of the Housing Corporation of the Alpha chapter of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity which is a national fraternity founded in 1904 at the College of Charleston.
Mikell is a resident of Columbia and was elected to the Board in 2004 to represent the second district. He is Special Projects Manager and Executive Assistant to the President of South Carolina Electric & Gas. Mikell graduated from the College of Charleston with a B.A. in Political Science.
He is a member of the Rotary Club of Columbia; Trustee of the Lowcountry Graduate Center; past president of the South Carolina State Society, Washington, DC; former chair of the Board of Directors and current Advisory Board member of The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Midlands; and a member of the EdVenture Children’s Museum Board of Trustees in Columbia.
Both will serve a two-year term.
