LOGAN – Effective this week, the Utah State University Board of Trustees will be under new leadership.
In a vote Friday, board members elected Trustee Tessa White as the new chair while Trustee Gina Gagon was elected to continue as vice chair.
Their terms begin Tuesday, July 1.
Tessa White started her career in human resources at Stephen R. Covey before joining United HealthGroup and later Vivint Solar building global human resource functions at both companies. Gagon currently runs Gagon Family Medicine with her husband. This month their company is celebrating 25 years as a small business.
The Board of Trustees is the governing board for USU consisting of nine persons appointed by the Governor to four-year terms. Ex-officio members are the president of the University’s Alumni Association and the USU student body president.