Press Release

 

ATLANTA – The Carter Center has named John F. Sandy Smith, a corporate and securities attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC., in Atlanta, to its Board of Councilors.
 

The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide. The Board of Councilors is a leadership advisory group that helps foster a broader understanding of the center’s mission. Founded in 1987, it has been chaired by some of the Atlanta area’s most distinguished civic leaders. The center describes the board as its most important channel of communication to private sector leadership in Atlanta and beyond. Smith will serve a three-year term on the board. 

Smith, a member in Womble Carlyle’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group, is extremely active in the community. An Emeritus member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees, he also serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and chairs the Advisory Board of the Institute for Research in Social Science at Stanford University (IRiSS). He is also on the boards of Odyssey, the Paideia School, Columbia Seminary, The National Kidney Foundation of Georgia, Prevent Blindness Georgia and The Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. He is a member of the MBA Advisory Board and has served as lecturer and executive in residence at The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, The Carter Center has helped improve life for people in more than 65 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; improving mental health care; and teaching farmers to increase crop production. Visit www.cartercenter.org to learn more.

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Womble Carlyle is a full-service business law firm with a focus on innovative solutions to client needs. The firm supports the Association of Corporate Counsel in the ACC Value Challenge, which seeks to better align legal services with the needs of corporate clients.

The firm is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally, with more than 500 attorneys in eleven offices: Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Baltimore, MD; and Wilmington, DE.

In the community, the firm is the first law firm to receive the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award as well as the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award.