Governor Sanders Appoints Carole Farmer to ASU System Board of Trustees

LITTLE ROCK — Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has appointed Carole Farmer of Fayetteville to a seven-year term on the Arkansas State University System Board of Trustees.

Farmer succeeds former board chair Christy Clark of Little Rock, who served seven years after being appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson in 2018 and reappointed by Governor Sanders in 2023.

ASU System President Brendan Kelly said he welcomed Farmer to the board.

"Carole Farmer will be a great addition to our Board of Trustees," Kelly said. "Her experience in health care, management, and finance will be welcomed at the board and the ASU System. We look forward to working with her in the years ahead."

Kelly added: "I am also grateful to Christy Clark for her contributions over the past seven years." "She was part of many important achievements within the ASU System, and I worked closely with her as board chair during the past six months as I became president. She has been a tremendous resource and asset to the ASU System."

Farmer is a Certified Medical Practice Executive (CMPE) and owns Arkansas Medical Management Consulting, LLC, a medical consulting firm that provides support to physician-owned practices. She worked for 17 years at the largest multi-specialty clinic in northeast Arkansas. During her final seven years there, she served as practice manager and oversaw more than 120 employees.

She served five years on the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Medical Group Management Association, serving as the organization's president in her final year. Before pursuing a career in medical management, she worked in banking, focusing on internal audit and regulatory compliance. She is a board member of Farmer Enterprises Inc.

"First, I want to thank Governor Sanders for her confidence in me," Farmer said. "I look forward to working with President Kelly and the other trustees to improve educational and workforce opportunities for our students and all Arkansans."

Farmer graduated from Arkansas State University with a bachelor's degree in accounting (2005) and a Master of Business Administration (2008). She also served as an adjunct professor of accounting at A-State for two years, focusing primarily on managerial accounting.

A Palestine, Arkansas native, she is married to Alec Farmer, a 1986 graduate of Arkansas State University. They are 1924 Society Sustaining Life Members of the A-State Alumni Association and endowed the Dalton A. Farmer Family Scholarship in 2015.

They have four grown daughters. Emily, their youngest daughter, is an A-State graduate.

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