Randolph-Macon College President Robert R. Lindgren is pleased to announce that three new members were sworn in at the February 17, 2018 Board of Trustees meeting.

Sabra L. Klein ’92 and Thomas “Tommy” Millner ’76 are elected members, and Hunter Leemon ’00 is an ex-officio member who serves as president of RMC’s Society of Alumni.

“We are delighted to welcome our new trustees and are grateful for their leadership and expertise,” says Lindgren.

Sabra L. Klein, Ph.D.  ’92
Sabra Klein earned her B.A. in psychology from Randolph-Macon College, her M.S. in biological psychology from the University of Georgia, and her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. She did postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology where she is now an associate professor.

Klein is a leading expert on sex differences in immune responses and susceptibility to infection. In addition to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, she has authored several book chapters and edited two books on the broad topics of sex differences in response to infection and treatments for infectious diseases. During the 2009 influenza pandemic, she was commissioned by the World Health Organization to evaluate and publish a report on the impact of sex, gender, and pregnancy on the outcome of influenza virus infection.

Klein, who has been invited to write reviews to introduce journal policies about sex reporting, is president-elect for the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, and her research has been highlighted in commentaries appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, and U.S. News and World Reports. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Science Foundation, and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

In 2010, Klein and her husband, Drew Maloney ’91, established the Klein-Maloney Fellowship for Women in the Sciences. The fellowship supports Randolph-Macon College students who are interested in research opportunities in the lab sciences. Klein won the 2010 Society for Women’s Health Research Medtronic Award for Science Contributions, and in 2016 she received the Randolph-Macon College Distinguished Alumna Award.

Thomas L. “Tommy” Millner ’76
Tommy Millner earned his B.A. in classics from Randolph-Macon College, where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and chaired the Inter-fraternity Council. At RMC he was elected to both Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.

Millner spent 20 years in the furniture industry before becoming the CEO of Pilliod Cabinet Company, where he led a successful turnaround of the company. Following the sale of Pilliod in 1994, he became the CEO of Remington Arms Company, and in 2009, following the sale of Remington, Millner became the CEO of Cabela’s.

Under his leadership, Cabela’s grew from 30 to 90 stores, nearly doubled revenues to approximately $4 billion, and grew its bank operation from $1 billion in outstanding receivables to more than $5 billion. In 2017, Cabela’s was sold to Bass Pro Shops and Goldman Sachs Private Equity for approximately $5.1 billion.

Now retired, Millner serves on the boards of Best Buy, Total Wine and More, and Menards. In 2013 he received RMC’s Society of Alumni Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Hunter Leemon ’00
Hunter Leemon earned his B.A. in political science from Randolph-Macon College, where he minored in journalism and competed on the baseball team. After graduation, he entered the commercial real estate business, where he was involved with the acquisition and development of retail, residential, and historical properties in the southeast United States and northern California. Leemon later attended the Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2009.

Leemon is the executive director of Sportable, a Richmond-based non-profit that helps transform the lives of people with physical and visual disabilities through sport. Leemon previously served as an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he taught a sports business class within the Center for Sports Leadership program.

Prior to joining Sportable, Leemon was director of sales for the Richmond Kickers, one of the largest soccer clubs in Central Virginia. Leemon was responsible for all aspects of non-soccer related revenue generation for the club and was involved with all aspects of marketing and game-day operations.

In 2017, Leemon was named one of Style Weekly’s 40 Under 40 for his work with Sportable.