Lillian Pierson Lovelace (Antioch University graduate), Governor Emerita

Lillian Lovelace, an active community volunteer, first joined the board in 1989.  When Lillian retired from the board in 2002 after more than 12 years of distinguished service, she was elected Trustee Emerita.

She is president of the Board of the Casa Serena and serves on a variety of other boards, including Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Santa Barbara Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, the Gould Center for the Humanities, the Santa Barbara Chapter of the League of Women Voters, and Phoenix House, a halfway house for psychiatric patients. Lillian attended Antioch College 1946-48 (Class of 1951) and graduated from Antioch University Southern California in 1989.

Major gifts from Lillian and her husband Jon (now deceased) have generously supported many of Antioch University’s initiatives including faculty development, educational outreach, visiting scholars, and cross-cultural education, to name just a few.