Board of Directors

Full Name		Employer	County/Term/Years
Emily Blue		Branch Manager, First Merchants Bank	Madison / 2022-24 (3 years)
David Happe		Judge, Madison County Circuit 4	Madison / 2022-24 (3)
Connie Kurtz		Executive Director, Hopewell Center	Madison / 2022-24 (3)
Kelly Chambers, MD		Retired Physician, Community Hospital	Madison / 2023-24 (2)
Ellyn Morgan, Secty/Treasr		Paralegal, Longnaker Law Office	Madison / 2023-25 (3)
Emily Anderson, President		Administrator, Delaware County Court	Delaware / 2023-24 (2)
Anita Corley, Past President		Retired Social Worker, Professional Guardian	Madison / 2023-25 (3)
Jeanne Brown, Vice President		Administrator, Keystone Woods	Madison / 2023-25 (3)
Cheryl Speikes**		Retired Nurse Practitioner, Grant County	Grant /2023-24 (2)
Cheryl Bennett		Clinician, Community Hospital	Madison /2023-24 (2)
Penny Callaway		IWU Professor, Nurse Practitioner, Grant County Area	Grant / 2023-24 (2)
Jennifer Stanley		Speech Therapist, Lingraphica	Grant-Tipton / 2023 (1)
Cara Kellarman		Executive Director, Encore Senior Center Tipton	Tipton/2024
Lauren McClure		City of Logansport Humans Resource Mgr	Cass/2023
Dennine Smith		Executive Director, CAMHOPE	Howard/2023

Board of Directors Description:
The affairs of the Guardian Advocates Inc (GAI) shall be managed by its Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors shall have control of and be responsible for the management of the operation and property of the GAI.  The number of directors shall be no less than three (3) nor more than seventeen (17) including the following officers: the President, the Vice President, the Secretary/Treasurer. At the conclusion of the initial one-year term, members of the Board of Directors may serve additional two- year terms, then three-year terms.  Their terms shall be staggered so that at the time of each annual meeting, (currently March), the terms of approximately one-third (1/3) of all members of the Board of Directors shall expire. Directors have the duties of loyalty, to exercise discretion and good business judgment, and keep confident GAI’s information or its activities, only on a need to know basis, unless already a matter of public knowledge, or the disclosure of such information is in furtherance of the GAI’s mission, or unless required by law.