Elizabeth Ballantine

Elizabeth Ballantine was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1980 and served as Board Chair from 1994-98.  She became a Life Trustee in 2003. Ballantine earned a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and a J.D. from American University. 

Since 1999, Ballantine has been president of EBA Associates, a consulting firm. From 1993 to 1999, she was an attorney in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin and Oshinsky LLP.  From 1990 until 1993, she worked as a private consultant advising clients on international business investments.  She was a staff reporter for the Des Moines Register from 1976-1982.

She has served as independent director of the Principal Financial Group of Des Moines, IA since 2004 and as a director of the McClatchy Newspaper Company of Sacramento, CA since 1998. From 2006 to 2012 she served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities, and presently serves on the Board of Directors of the Durango Herald, Inc., of Durango, CO, and as Vice Chair of the Board of the American University of Paris, France