Elise Hendrickson Luckey has spent more than two decades in education. She is founder and co-director of the Lindsey Wilson Bonner Program, a service-learning initiative of 68 undergraduate students who each commit a minimum of 10 hours of community service a week to an area nonprofit or government agency. She also serves as adviser to the John B. Begley Scholars Program, which includes the students who are awarded the college's top merit-based scholarship.

Elise has worked in residence life, she taught special education for more than 10 years in Adair County, Ky., schools, and she also was a linguistics teacher at a Louisville, Ky., school for dyslexic children.

A graduate of Lindsey Wilson College, Elise also holds a master of arts degree in exceptional education, K-12, from Western Kentucky University as well as a Rank I in secondary education from Western Kentucky. She has also completed doctoral-level work in educational leadership at Vanderbilt University.

Elise and her husband, William T. Jr., have three daughters: Joanne, Chelsea and Kaitie.