New members of the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers were installed on September 1, 2009, after having been elected in July. The election and installation were announced by Hoover Institution director John Raisian.
Elected were
James J. Carroll, president and chief executive officer of the Jean Perkins Foundation,
Jeffrey A. Farber, chief executive officer of the Koret Foundation, San Francisco,
James G. “Skip” Law, past vice president of corporate real estate for the McKesson Corporation,
Jay A. Precourt, president of the Energy Group at Hamilton Oil Company, chief executive officer of Tejas Gas Corporation and Hermes Consolidated, and founder and chief executive officer of Scissortail Energy,
Curtis Sloane Tamkin, chair of Tamkin Capital Group, LLC,
Terence W. Thomas, chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Arizona Wholesale Supply.
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is a public policy research center, founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to be elected the 31st president of the United States.
