
Board Of Trustees Meeting
MARTIN, Tenn. – Ashlee Mallon, a University of Tennessee at Martin junior finance major from from Dresden, was named the student trustee to the University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees at its annual meeting July 1 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Her appointment was announced at the meeting by Board of Trustees Chair John Compton. Her term will run through June 30, 2026, and she succeeds Lisa Patel, a biomedical engineering major from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as student trustee.
“It is an honor to have been nominated and selected to represent UTM on the Board of Trustees,” she said in an email interview. “It is an honor to be entrusted to uphold the values for the UT System and uphold the expectations of UT Martin.”
Mallon serves as the I Heart UTM chair for the Student Alumni Council and is a senator in the Student Government Association. She is also the vice president of the Financial Management Association for the 2025-26 school year.
Mallon is a member of the Ned Ray McWherter Institute and the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, and serves on the College of Business and Global Affairs Student Advisory Board.
“Taking on the role of the student trustee prepares me for my future career in many different ways,” Mallon said in the interview. “With the goal of becoming an attorney, the board is allowing me to invoke a professional role and make connections throughout my term.
“I am put into a position to make a difference for the UT System to better the lives of our faculty and students. This prepares me for the role of becoming a leader in the legal field within the next couple of years.”
The student trustee is a non-voting member of the Board of Trustees, but is a voting member in the Education, Research and Service Committee. The position of student trustee rotates among universities within the UT System.
When a university’s time approaches to nominate a student trustee, the university’s provost solicits nominations from the campus deans. From those nominees, the chancellor makes a recommendation to the Board of Trustees for appointment.
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The next meeting of the UT System Board of Trustees will be Oct. 23-24 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The winter meeting will be held Feb. 26-27 at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, and the annual meeting will be held June 29-30 at the University of Tennessee Southern in Pulaski.
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Photo – ASHLEE MALLON GREETING – UTM junior Ashlee Mallon is shown being welcomed by UT System Board of Trustees Chair John Compton at the board’s annual meeting July 1 at UT Chattanooga after being named the student trustee for the UT System Board of Trustees.