The Inaugural Faculty Senate
Campus Colleagues,
I want to thank all of our faculty for participating in the Faculty Senate elections in October — you are ensuring that your units, programs and colleges are given a voice at the university level with this important body of faculty representation.
As a reminder, the inaugural Faculty Senate members are serving staggered terms to ensure that only one-third of seats will be up for election each year rather than the entire body. The seats were assigned term lengths randomly to make the process as fair as possible.
The inaugural Faculty Senate members are listed below. An asterisk (*) denotes members of the Provisional Faculty Senate Executive Committee who were elected by their college to serve as a Faculty Senator.
Terms ending Aug. 14, 2025:
- Val Adams — College of Pharmacy
- John “JS” Butler — Graduate School
- Christopher Crawford — College of Arts and Sciences
- Sarah Hall* — College of Medicine
- Erin Haynes — College of Public Health
- Hyun Ju Jeong — College of Communication and Information
- Aubrey Jones* — College of Social Work
- Bradley Kerns — College of Fine Arts
- Joneen Lowman* — College of Health Sciences
- Douglas “Doug” Michael — College of Law
- Gregg Rentfrow — Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
- Holly Stith — College of Nursing
- Kaveh Tagavi — Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
Terms ending Aug. 14, 2026:
- Kimberly Anderson — Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
- Emily Bergeron* — College of Design
- Martha Biddle* — College of Nursing
- Holly Hapke — Gatton College of Business and Economics
- Richard “Rick” Ingram — College of Public Health
- Jane McEldowney Jensen — College of Education
- Amy Laub — Libraries
- Joe Martin — Lewis Honors College
- Kirsten Metzler-Wilson — College of Health Sciences
- Stephanie Ratliff — College of Social Work
- Melissa Stein — College of Arts and Sciences
- Jessalyn Vallade* — College of Communication and Information
- Alfred Wiemann* — College of Dentistry
Terms ending Aug. 14, 2027:
- Becky Alley* — College of Fine Arts
- Bjoern Bauer — College of Pharmacy
- Stephanie Bennett — College of Education
- Enif Dominguez Fernandez — College of Dentistry
- Andrew McDonnell — Libraries
- Kathleen Montgomery* — Graduate School
- Michael “Mike” Murray — College of Law
- Mark O’Bryan — College of Design
- Sherelle Roberts — Lewis Honors College
- Nicholas “Nick” Teets — Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
- Olivier Thibault — College of Medicine
- Leslie Vincent — Gatton College of Business and Economics
Thank you to all our faculty for participating in these important elections, and congratulations to our new Faculty Senators. I am eager to see how they will come together to continue advancing UK and our Commonwealth.
Robert S. DiPaola, M.D.
Provost