Pictured Above: Stephanie Goforth is also chair of the St. Petersburg Campus Advisory Board.
Courtesy of USF
By Crow’s Nest Staff
Stephanie Goforth, a banker and longtime member of the USF St. Petersburg Campus Advisory Board, has been elected vice chair of the USF Board of Trustees.
She replaces Les Muma, a business executive, philanthropist and namesake of the Muma College of Business in Tampa, who will remain a trustee.
Goforth, 59, is president of the west Florida region for Northern Trust Bank in downtown St. Petersburg and a resident of Gulfport.
She serves on both the 13-member USF Board of Trustees, which governs the university, and the seven-member Campus Advisory Board, which helps oversee the operations and budget of the St. Petersburg campus.
Goforth’s election as trustees’ vice chair came as the trustees reappointed one member of the St. Petersburg board and named two new members.
Lawrence Hamilton, an executive coach and adjunct faculty member with the Center for Creative Leadership affiliate at Eckerd College, was reappointed.
The board’s two new members are Scott Goyer, the president and CEO of the YMCA of the Suncoast, and Debbie Nye Sembler, a community activist, philanthropist and former member of both the Board of Trustees and the campus board.
The Student Success Center on the St. Petersburg campus is named for Sembler.
The campus board was expanded from five to seven members as part of the USF consolidation process.
