For the first time, a female Clemson board chairperson

A South Carolina Bank of America top officer, Kim Wilkerson, will sit in the chairman’s seat during meetings of the Clemson University Board of Trustees.  Wilkerson has been a board of trustees’ member since 2010.  It’s not the first time she has achieved a first for her gender.  Wilkerson also became the first woman to be named president of a South Carolina bank.  On the Clemson board, she succeeds Smyth McKissick.  He remains on the board but has served the maximum number of consecutive terms as the chair.