Agnes Scott College Board of Trustees Elects New Members

Bradie C. Barr ’85 is vice president and managing director at Transamerica. She serves as president of Transamerica Stable Value Solutions Inc., where she is responsible for the overall management of Transamerica’s stable value business and chairs the AEGON Transamerica Foundation’s Baltimore Committee. She has more than 30 years of diverse financial services experience, including a strong background in fixed-income investments, treasury management, business development and relationship management. She serves as a director of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation and has previously served on the boards of Baltimore Center Stage, Business Volunteers Maryland and the Maryland Zoo. She is a member of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s LEADERship program Class of 2016 and was named one of the 25 Women to Watch by The Baltimore Sun in 2017. Barr holds a BA in economics from Agnes Scott College.

Ronald A. Crutcher is an American classical musician and academic administrator who served as the 10th president of the University of Richmond from 2015 to 2021, where he continues as President Emeritus and University Professor . He was president of Wheaton College in Massachusetts from 2004 until 2014 and earlier served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of music at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Crutcher is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University of Ohio. He pursued graduate studies at Yale University as a Woodrow Wilson and Ford Foundation Fellow. In 1979, he was the first cellist to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University. A recipient of a Fulbright Award, he is fluent in German and studied music at the Cologne University of Music.