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 The Broward Community College District Board of Trustees
The Broward Community College District Board of Trustees brings together five community leaders with diverse backgrounds who provide dedicated leadership to the College and its activities. The Governor of the State of Florida appoints this group of outstanding local citizens. As the governing board of the College, they are the stewards of BCC’s commitment to excellence, while they guide the College and implement the goals enumerated in their mission statement. Their desire to provide students with the academic skills needed to transfer to four-year colleges and universities, to enhance skills to be competitive in the rapidly changing job market, and to offer opportunities for continuing education, personal growth and enrichment is a challenge they approach with enthusiasm. As a team, these dynamic community leaders are fully engaged in providing a future that offers increased higher education opportunities for Broward County residents.
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Board of Trustees Members
Georgette Sosa Douglass
| Georgette Sosa Douglass was first appointed to the BCC District Board of Trustees by Gov. Jeb Bush in 1999 and was first reappointed in 2002. She has served as chair and vice-chair of the board. Her second reappointment extends through May 31, 2010.
A native of the Republic of Panama, Sosa Douglass began her higher education at Canal Zone Junior College and South Texas Community College. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Schiller International University in London and her Juris Doctor degree from the Shepard Broad Law Center of Nova Southeastern University. She is an attorney in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, where she has lived since 1977.
Sosa Douglass is active in professional and community activities in Broward County. She has served as president of the Broward County Hispanic Bar Association, the Broward County Women Lawyers Association and the Florida Council of Bar Association Presidents. She has volunteered as a guardian ad litem in the 17th Judicial Circuit and assists indigent Hispanics through Legal Aid of Broward County. In addition, she recently was invited by Florida Atlantic University President Frank Brogan to serve on the state advisory council for ENLACE FLORIDA.
She also has served as a mentor at Bennett Elementary School, as first vice president and Cultural Diversity Committee chair of the Broward County Cultural Council, on the board of Workforce One, and the National Conference on Community and Justice, Broward-South Palm Beach Region, and the Minority Business Enterprise Advisory Committee of the Broward County School Board. |
Lourdes L. Garrido, chair
| Ms. Garrido is vice president of government relations for HCA, the Healthcare Company. HCA operates 40 hospitals in Florida with approximately 40,000 employees. Prior to being named vice president, she held several marketing, public relations and government relations positions. She began her HCA career at Cedars Medical Center in Miami. Ms. Garrido is a graduate of Miami-Dade Community College and Florida International University. She was appointed to the board in April 1999. Ms. Garrido served as vice chair of the board in 2001-2002 and chair of the board in 2002-2003.
Ms. Garrido is a native of Havana, Cuba, and resides in Miramar with her husband, Pedro, and their three children. She is active in many community organizations, including United Way, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida. |
 Sean Guerin
| Mr. Guerin is a Fort Lauderdale native. He graduated from the Marist School, in Atlanta, and earned a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Mr. Guerin's marketing and customer service expertise was developed in three extremely competitive industries. Initially working in professional sports, Sean played an integral roll in the Expansion Draft for the Florida Marlins Baseball Club. Following several years with the Marlins in Sales and Marketing, Sean was asked to join the sales team of Anheuser Busch. His success there afforded him the opportunity to become Director of Marketing for Boston Market's 75 stores in the northeast United States.
He and Britt Sikes founded U.S. Imaging Solutions, a document management company, in Davie in 1998. Guerin and Sikes now serve as the company’s co-CEOs.
Mr. Guerin is a co-chair of governmental affairs and an at-large member of the executive board of the Broward Workshop. He also is chairman of Preserve the American Dream, a Tampa-based organization based in Tampa that supports fiscal responsibility and efficient government. He was named recipient of a Sun-Sentinel Excalibur Award in 2004.
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Paul C. Tanner, vice chair
| Mr. Tanner is Senior Vice President of Lehman Brothers, Inc. He specializes in wealth management for high net-worth families’ and family offices and capital market transactions for corporations. Mr. Tanner graduated from Coconut Creek High School, Florida Atlantic University, and the Executive Business Program at Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to the Board of Trustees for Broward Community College in July 2003 and currently serves as its Vice-Chairman.Mr. Tanner is married to Jodi Paris-Jeffreys and has three sons, Stephen (20), Garrett (17) and Jerrod (8). He is active in the little league program in the City of Fort Lauderdale. Mr. Tanner also participates in several charitable and civic organizations in the county, including being a member of the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Discovery and Science and Kids in Distress of Broward County. |
Levi G. Williams
| Levi Williams graduated from the University of Illinois with his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with emphasis in marketing and organizational behavior and received his law degree from the University of Florida in 1994.
After working for the State Attorney in Fort Myers, he joined Fertig and Gramling in 1996. His areas of practice include: corporate, labor and employment, wrongful death and personal injury, discrimination, governmental relations/business consulting and he serves as a court appointed arbitrator in Broward County.
Mr. Williams is active in the community where he is the past president of the Broward County Urban League. A member for eight years of the Board of Trustees for Broward Community College, he has led the board twice as chair. He was recently appointed by Attorney General Bill McCollum to the Florida Council on the Status of Black Men and Boys, of which he has been elected chair. Mr. Williams is also the attorney for the County Republican Executive Committee. |
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