Rotary
International President Ray Klinginsmith, 2010-2011
Ray
Klinginsmith
Kirksville, Missouri, USA
President, Rotary International, 2010-11
President-elect, Rotary International, 2009-10
Trustee Vice Chair, The Rotary Foundation, 2005-06
Trustee, The Rotary Foundation, 2002-06
Director, Rotary International, 1985-87
District Governor, 1975-76 |
Ray
Klinginsmith is an attorney in Kirksville, Missouri, USA,
who now works primarily in the areas of commercial and
corporate law, real estate, and estate planning. He retired
in August 1995 as general counsel and professor of business
administration for Truman State University (formerly
Northeast Missouri State University) in Kirksville after 22
years of service. During his tenure at the university, he
also served as dean of administration for five years during
the university's transition to a liberal arts and sciences
institution. Since his retirement from the university, he
served a four-year term (2001-04) as a county commissioner
for Adair County.
Ray has served as a director of the Macon Atlanta State
Bank in Macon, Missouri, since 1971, and he was one of the
initial trustees for the Missouri Family Trust, which was
created by the Missouri legislature in 1989. He has been the
president of Chariton Valley Association for Handicapped
Citizens since its organization in 1982, and he was accorded
the 1988 Parent/Caretaker Award by the Missouri Planning
Council for Developmental Disabilities. He is a former
member of the executive board for the Great Rivers Council
of the Boy Scouts of America and the holder of its Silver
Beaver Award for adult volunteers. He is a member of the
First United Methodist Church in Kirksville and a former lay
speaker for the church.
A Rotarian since 1961, Ray has served Rotary as district
governor, chair of the 1998 Council on Legislation in New
Delhi and the 2008 Los Angeles Convention Committee. He was
a member of the RI Board of Directors for 1985-87 and
chaired its executive committee in 1986-87. Ray joined The
Rotary Foundation Trustees in 2002, serving as vice chair in
2005-06, and was a member of the Future Vision Committee
from 2005 to 2008. He is a Major Donor and a recipient of
the Foundation's Citation for Meritorious Service and
Distinguished Service Award.
Ray's wife, Judie, is a former elementary school teacher in
Macon and Kirksville and a former consultant for the child
development assistant program at the Kirksville Area
Vocational Center. Ray and Judie have two children, Leigh
and Kurt, and three grandchildren, Morgan, Grant, and Sydney
Perkins. |
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