Members represented all 16 SREB states and included state legislators, state higher education leaders and presidents of colleges and universities.

Glen D. Johnson, Chancellor, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma Chair

Wayne Andrews, President, Morehead State University, Kentucky
Alan Baker, State Representative, Alabama 
Melanie Barton, Executive Director, Education Oversight Committee, South Carolina
Hugh Blackwell, State Representative, North Carolina
Peter Blake, Director, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, Virginia
Glenn Boyce, Commissioner of Higher Education, Institutions of Higher Learning, Mississippi
Shane Broadway, Director, Arkansas Department of Higher Education, Arkansas
Harry Ray Brooks, State Representative, Tennessee
Julie Carullo, Director, Governmental Affairs and Special Projects, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education
Norman Conway, Former State Delegate, Maryland
Walter Dalton, President, Isothermal Community College, North Carolina
Krissy DeAlejandro, Executive Director, tnAchieves, Tennessee
Russ Deaton, Interim Executive Director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission
Lee Denney, State Representative, Oklahoma 
Joyce Elliott, State Senator, Arkansas
Terry England, State Representative, Georgia 
Erik Fresen, State Representative, Florida 
Herb Frierson, State Representative, Mississippi
James Halligan, State Senator, Oklahoma
Randy Hanna, Chancellor, Florida College System
Jack Hill, State Senator, Georgia
Paul Hill, Chancellor, Higher Education Policy Commission, West Virginia
Sheila Ellis Hixson, State Delegate,Maryland
Hank Huckaby, Chancellor, University System of Georgia 
Mac Huddleston, State Representative, Mississippi
Jennie Hunter-Cevera, Acting Secretary, Maryland Higher Education Commission
Robert King, President, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
Joe Pickens, President, St. Johns River State College, Florida
Bob Plymale, State Senator, West Virginia
John Polk, State Senator, Mississippi
Brett Powell, Director, Arkansas Department of Higher Education
Joseph Rallo, Commissioner of Higher Education, Louisiana Board of Regents
Richard Rhoda, Executive Director Emeritus, Tennessee Higher Education Commission
Johnnie Roebuck, Former State Legislator and Retired Educator, Arkansas
Tim Shaughnessy, Former Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Gateway Community & Technical College, Kentucky
Arnold Simpson, State Representative, Kentucky 
David Sokola, State Senator, Delaware
Francis Thompson, State Senator, Louisiana
Mark White, State Representative, Tennessee
Yvonne Wood, Member, Women’s Economic Council Foundation
Sandra Woodley, Former President, University of Louisiana System