W. Cecil Worsley III '86 and Jasmine Turner '15 elected to Elon Board of Trustees

​W. Cecil Worsley III, a 1986 Elon graduate, and Jasmine Turner, an outstanding member of this spring’s graduating class, have been elected to serve as Elon University trustees. Worsley will serve a four-year term and Turner will serve a two-year term as youth trustee.

Worsley, a loyal annual supporter of Elon athletics and a former member of the golf team at Elon, has donated funds to name the W. Cecil Worsley III Golf Training Center on campus. He is a member of Elon’s President’s Advisory Council and the President’s Athletic Advisory Council. He is married to Elon alumna JoAnna Sutton Worsley ’87 and they are the parents of W. Cecil Worsley IV, a 2014 Elon graduate.

Worsley owns and operates Black Gold Holdings, LLC, the Port City Java coffee shop chain, and Springer Eubank Company, a wholesale fuel and convenience store chain. He was formerly the President/CEO of Worsley Companies, Inc., which operated a chain of more than 140 convenience stores in the Carolinas. Worsley graduated from Elon with a bachelor’s degree in finance.

​Turner, of Richmond, Va., is a broadcast journalism major who has completed three internships, working at CBS’s “60 Minutes” in New York City, WXII-TV in the Triad and NBC4 in Washington, D.C. She has anchored Elon’s student-produced television news program and was on the student team that produced Elon’s live morning show that won second place nationally in the College Television Awards for alternative programming.

Turner has been a campus leader, serving as a resident assistant, university admissions guide, Periclean Scholar and president and director of the Elon University Gospel Choir. She begins her career as a broadcast journalist at WECT-TV in Wilmington, N.C., following graduation.