The Cornell Board of Trustees filled 11 trustee-at-large vacancies and another from the field of agriculture May 23. It also elected one new vice chair and re-elected three vice chairs to its leadership.

All the terms begin July 1.

The new trustees are: Jessica Weill Bibliowicz, A.B. '81, president and CEO, National Financial Partners; Samuel W. Bodman III '60, B.ChemE. '61, former U.S. Secretary of Energy; Patricia E. Harris, first deputy mayor, New York City; Ronald D. McCray '79, vice president and chief administrative officer, Nike Inc.; Armando J. Olivera '72, president and CEO, Florida Power and Light Co.; and William D. Perez '69, former president and CEO of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.

Re-elected were current trustees Diana M. Daniels '71, Kenneth A. Goldman '71, Paul A. Gould '67, Irene B. Rosenfeld '75, Ph.D. '80, and Robert L. Ryan, M.S. '68. Also re-elected, as trustee from the field of agriculture for a one-year term, was Craig Yunker '73.

The new vice chairs are Daniels and Robert J. Katz '69. David W. Zalaznick '76 and Jan Rock Zubrow '77 were re-elected vice chairs. They will serve one-year terms.

At the meeting, the board also welcomed trustees elected in April by students and alumni for terms beginning July 1. The student body elected Asa Craig '11 to a two-year term; the alumni chose Paul A. Salvatore '81, J.D. '84, and M. Eileen McManus Walker '76, MBA '78, for four-year terms.

Cornell is the only Ivy League university -- and one of the few universities across the country -- whose board of trustees includes student, faculty and staff representatives as full voting members. There are two faculty and two student trustees and one employee trustee on the 64-member board.