College Leadership
The Board of Trustees, when Kyle Farmbry stepped down as President in January 2025, appointed an Acting President and Acting Chief Operating Officer.
Jean Parvin Bordewich
Acting President
Jean Parvin Bordewich comes from a long line of Guilfordians, stretching back more than a century, from her mother’s Quaker family in Snow Camp, N.C. Jean attended Guilford for two years and later graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in Classics and from The George Washington University with an MBA. At Guilford, Jean was a Dana Scholar, Richardson Fellow and reporter for the Guilfordian newspaper.
Jean serves as a 2024-25 Visiting Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a playwright and writer with a long career in politics, government and philanthropy.
Jean was staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, responsible for the Obama-Biden inauguration in 2013. Earlier she was chief of staff to U.S. Rep. John Hall and in additional roles for U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and other members of Congress. After leaving the Senate, Jean helped launch the U.S. Democracy program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in California, and in 2022, she was a member of the national Commission on the Continuity of Government. Jean also worked for five years as a business executive in New York City. Jean started her Congressional career in the office of U.S. Rep. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro during a summer internship after her sophomore year at Guilford. Jean also ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1998 and was elected three times to her town council in New York state.
As a playwright, Jean explores the intersection of history, politics, and the moral choices of people in public life. “Electionland,” her current play about the election of 1876, had its first public reading in 2024 at the President Rutherford B. Hayes historic site. A reading in Washington, D.C., will be held in March 2025. An educational version was adapted for a film and a high school social studies curriculum available online.
Jean’s articles, op-eds and book reviews have appeared in national publications including The Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, Roll Call, The Hill and Friends Journal.
Jean and her husband, historian and author Fergus M. Bordewich, live in Washington, D.C.
Keith Ivory Millner ’82
Acting Chief Operating Officer
Keith Ivory Millner ‘82 has served on the Guilford Board of Trustees since 2023. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He was the 1981-82 football team quarterback, and led the Quakers to a top 10 NAIA national ranking in 1981. Millner was a Nereus C. English Athletic Scholar, a Dana Scholar, and president of Brothers and Sisters in Blackness. In 1981 he received the Dean of Students Leadership Award and was chief marshal at Commencement.
After Guilford, Keith earned an MBA and had a successful three-decade career in senior executive corporate roles before transitioning to entrepreneurship. He served as president of CertusBank Georgia, COO of InvestAtlanta, president of Nationwide Financial Network, and other positions. He is co-founder and president of Coaching Catalyst LLC, an executive coaching and business advisory firm, and co-owner and COO of Social Capital, LLC which operates multiple Jersey Mike’s Subs franchises in the Atlanta area.
His other community leadership roles include being co-chair of the 100 Black Men of America’s Leadership Institute and former vice chair of the Housing Authority of Fulton County. He was named one of the Knight Leadership Award’s “100 Black Men of America,” and to the list of “Men of Influence” by the Atlanta Business League.
