University of Missouri Board of Curators elects officers for 2010

ST. LOUIS -- Judith Gosney Haggard of Kennett, Mo., was elected to a one-year term as chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators during the board's meeting Dec. 11 in St. Louis. Warren K. Erdman of Kansas City, Mo., was elected vice chair.

The leadership terms for Haggard and Erdman begin Jan. 1. Haggard, who served this year as the board's vice chair, succeeds Bo Fraser of Columbia, whose board term expires Dec. 31.

Haggard currently chairs the Executive Committee and the Academic, Student and External Affairs Committee. She also is a member of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee and the Governance Committee. She is a family nurse practitioner at the SEMO Health Network in Kennett and a past examiner for the certification of substance abuse counselors.

Haggard received her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her master's degree in nursing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is the founder of the Dunklin County Caring Community Council and a founding member of the parent organization at Mizzou.

Haggard is a member of the MU Alumni Association and an elder in the Presbyterian church, and has served as a past board member of the State Alcohol Council, the Delta Children's Home and the Visiting Nurses' Association. She and her husband, David, also are members of the Jefferson Club.