James E. Nevels, founder and CEO of The Swarthmore Group, an independent investment advisory firm in West Chester, Pa., and Ann Jones Bowling, director of the Bowling Family Foundation, have been elected to the Berea College Board of Trustees.

Each was appointed to a six-year term and will serve through 2007.

Nevels has 20 years of experience in the securities and investment industry.
James Nevels

James E. Nevels

Since founding The Swarthmore Group in 1992, the firm has grown to become the eighth-largest minority-owned investment advisory firm in the U.S., currently managing approximately $ 1 billion in assets. From 1984 to 1991 Nevels was employed by Prudential-Bache Securities, where he was vice president, and by Smith Barney, Harris Upham and Co., Inc. He practiced law from 1978-84 as counsel in bond transactions with the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll. He also is the author of a book on college and university financing.

A Greensboro, Ala. native, Nevels holds an A.B. in political science and philosophy from Bucknell University, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a

J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He is a former member of the Bucknell University Board of Trustees, and also has served on the board of directors for the Ports of Philadelphia and Camden, Inc., and the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, among other civic activities.

Ann Bowling, along with her late husband James Bowling, a Berea College trustee from 1968-1997, has been a long-time supporter of the College. She has directed the Bowling Family Foundation since 1997, and also is active in numerous charities and churches as a volunteer and board member.