Executive Board

Wayne A. Wiegand

Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor-Emeritus, and Senior Scholar-In-Residence at the PALMM Center of Florida State University. He is working on a history of the American public library, a history of the American public school library, and with Shirley Wiegand a history of the desegregation of public libraries in the American South between 1954 and 1968. He is currently Director of the Florida Book Awards, and President of the FSU Friends of Libraries.

Gloria Colvin

Gloria Colvin is a research librarian in the Florida State University Libraries. An active member of state and national library organizations, she currently serves as Vice President/President-Elect of the Florida Library Association. She earned a B.A. and M.A.T. from Duke University and an M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. An avid reader, she especially enjoys literary fiction and participates in several book discussion groups. She currently serves as Chair of the Florida Book Awards Executive Committee.

Julia Zimmerman

Julia Zimmerman is Dean of University Libraries at Florida State University. Prior to her appointment at FSU in 2007, she was Dean of Libraries at Ohio University. She has also held positions at Georgia Institute of Technology, Penn State University, and Wake Forest University, and has been active in state, regional and national library organizations. Julia holds degrees from Florida State University and Emory University. A fifth-generation Floridian and an enthusiastic reader of Florida history and fiction, Julia is delighted that the Florida Book Awards are now headquartered at the FSU Libraries.

Andy McLeod

Andy McLeod is director of government affairs of the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, the international conservation nonprofit. Previously Andy served in leadership positions with the Trust for Public Land, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, California Natural Resources Agency, US Senators John Chafee of Rhode land and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, and Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa. McLeod holds a BA from George Washington University, MA from Georgetown University, and MPA from Harvard University. A State Senate appointee to the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida, he is also a member of the board of directors of the Florida Humanities Council, Florida Earth Foundation, and Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation.

 

Cecelia Solomon

Cecelia Solomon has been a middle school library media specialist in Hernando County since 1986. She is an active member of FAME, and is presently serving as Incoming President on the annual conference committee. Cecelia has an M.A. from the School of Library & Information Science College of Education at USF, a B.A. in Sociology with Social Studies Education from SUNY College at Geneseo, and is a National Board Certified Teacher in Library Media Early Childhood through Young Adult. Cecelia's husband Alan is a high school American History teacher and a high school wrestling official. They have one son, Bucky, an Army Ranger. The Solomons have had season ticket holders for the Tampa Bay Rays for many years.

John Fenstermaker

John Fenstermaker, Fred L. Standley Professor of English and University Distinguished Teacher at Florida State University. He specializes in Victorian and Modern American literature and culture. Mr. Fenstermaker has been President of the Florida College English Association, the Florida Association of Departments of English, the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, and Director of the Program in American and Florida Studies at FSU. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the Southern American Studies Association. In 2005, he served as President of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Terry Lewis

Terry Lewis has been a trial Judge in Tallahassee since 1989, where he presides over a variety of criminal and civil cases. He has been active over the years in a number of professional, educational and community service organizations, including: Inns of Court, Committee on Civil Jury instructions, Education Chair for County and Circuit Judge Conferences, Faculty for Florida Judicial College and College of Advanced Judicial Studies, Leadership Tallahassee, Leadership Florida, YMCA Board, Tallahassee Rotary Club President, Kids Voting, Teen Court, Justice Teaching Institute, Local, Statewide and National High School Mock Trial Competition. His professional awards include Judge of the Year, Florida Law Related Education Association - 1993, Judge Harvey Ford Leadership Award - 1996, Trial Judge of the Year Award, American Board of Trial Advocates - 2000.
The judge began work on a novel in 1990. Seven years, two writing courses, and many books and articles later, his first novel, Conflict of Interest, a Murder mystery set in Tallahassee, was published by Pineapple Press. His second novel, Privileged Information, was released in 2003. He is currently at work on a third.
Terry's wife, Fran, is a guidance counselor. They have one daughter, Angie. Terry likes to relax with a good game of tennis or basketball, a good book, or film.

Rick Campbell

Rick Campbell's most recent book of poems is Dixmont, from Autumn House Press. His other books are The Traveler's Companion (Black Bay Books, 2004); and Setting The World In Order (Texas Tech 2001) which won the Walt McDonald Prize; and A Day's Work (State Street Press 2000);. He has won a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two poetry fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He has published poems and essays in many journals including The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, The Florida Review, Prairie Schooner and many others. He is the director of Anhinga Press and teaches in the English department at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. He lives in Gadsden County, Florida, with his wife and daughter.

Judith A. Ring

Judith Ring has overseen the programs and services administered by the Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services since January 2003. The Division of Library and Information Services is the information resource provider for the Florida Legislature and state agencies. It coordinates and funds public libraries; implements statewide reading, information, and literacy initiatives; provides records management services; and collects, preserves, and makes available the published and unpublished documentary history of the state. Judith attended college at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and received her Masters in Library Science at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

Roxann Campbell

Roxann Campbell has been employed in a variety of human service and education programs. She served as a family counselor, and program director for mental health care organizations in her home state of New Mexico, and Texas. Upon moving to Orlando in 1995, Roxann began her career in the field of adult literacy while serving the Florida Literacy Coalition.
In 2003, Roxann was selected as an Associate Director by the Volunteer USA Foundation's Family Literacy Initiative where she managed Governor Jeb Bush's Family Literacy Initiative, now named the Florida Family Literacy Initiative. In this role, she has oversight of multiple literacy projects. Roxann is best known for her achievements in exemplary family literacy programming, and the implementation of the Florida Family Literacy Report Card.
Hobbies and special interest include reading for pleasure and learning, music, neighborhood improve projects, and interior decorating. She also enjoys fresh and salt water fishing, golf, and traveling to Florida's natural attractions with her husband James Campbell. Roxann is a 1990 graduate of Angelo State University, and earned a BS in Clinical Psychology.

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith is currently the secondary reading specialist with "Just Read, Florida!" in Office of the Department of Education. He was the reading coach at Seminole High School in Sanford from 2004 to 2006, when he was named Seminole High School "Teacher of the Year." He was formerly the reading coach and an English teacher at Millennium Middle School, also in Sanford, FL, from 1994 to 2004, where he was the 2004 Millennium Middle School "Teacher of the Year." Kevin earned a BS in English Education and a Master of Education in Open and Distance Learning from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

 

Carole Fiore

Carole Fiore, president of Training and Library Consulting, an independent library consulting firm, has worked as a librarian/media specialist for the School District of Philadelphia, as children's librarian and branch manager in public libraries in Florida, and served as the Youth Services Consultant for the State Library and Archives of Florida for 17 years. She has served on the Newbery, the Caldecott, and the Geisel Award Committees, all administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, and served as chair of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Committee for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Carole taught children's literature at the University of Tampa (FL) and was an adjunct professor at Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies. Active in the Florida Library Association, Carole has presented workshops on various aspects of library service to children, tweens, and teens as well children's and young adult literature across the United States and in England.