Four new honorees will be inducted into the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business Hall of Fame on April 3, 2025. Every other year, the Baker School of Business recognizes individuals who are leaders in their respective fields. This event honors and thanks the recipients for their contributions to the business community.

Honorees include Jack Jones, Allison Dean Love, CGC ’93, Barbara Melvin and James Wigfall, ‘82.

Leaders of Principle awardees have enjoyed substantial success in business or public service and have made significant contributions to their communities. Anyone can nominate an outstanding business leader who is living or deceased from any state or college. The nominee’s values should mirror those of the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business.

Established in 2017, the Lonnie N. Carter Distinguished Leadership Award is only given when the leadership in the Baker School of Business believes there is an individual who models the service and support of the namesake honoree.

The Baker School of Business Hall of Fame begins at 6 p.m. at the Charleston Marriott, located at 170 Lockwood Drive, in Charleston. The 2025 Baker School of Business Hall of Fame inductees are:

Jack Jones, Leader of Principle

Jack Jones currently sits on the Board of Beacon Community Bank in South Carolina, Medical University South Carolina Mainsail Advisory Board, The Citadel Baker School of Business Advisory Board. Jones retired as vice president and general manager of Boeing South Carolina. He had overall leadership responsibility for Boeing’s South Carolina operations and facilities in North Charleston. Boeing South Carolina assembles and delivers 787 Dreamliners to customers around the world. The site also fabricates, assembles and installs systems for the aft fuselage sections of the 787 and joins and integrates 787 mid-body fuselage sections from structural partners in Japan and Italy. Before joining the Boeing South Carolina team in March 2011, Jones served as vice president of the Everett Delivery Center, overseeing Airplane-on-Ground, Paint, Pre-Flight and Delivery operations for the Boeing wide-body models (747, 767, 777 and 787) assembled in Everett, Wash. He was named to that assignment in October 2003. Prior to that Jones served in several executive manufacturing positions on all wide body Boeing model aircraft. Additionally, Jones spent time on multiple military programs including Air Force One, B2 stealth bomber and A6 intruder.

Allison Dean Love, CGC ’93, Lonnie N. Carter Distinguished Service Award

Allison Dean Love, CGC ’93, is a national-level consultant, primarily working with insurance and higher education organizations with more than 30 years of experience in public relations, communications and media relations.

Owner of her own consulting firm, she works with major media outlets worldwide, as well as with national, state and local clients, engaging in crisis communications, loss prevention, risk management, strategic planning and board governance. She also serves as a senior consultant for the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. She has worked with search firms in human resources, recruiting and business development and hired thousands of employees for a variety of companies, including financial services and healthcare organizations.

Elected by the SC General Assembly as the first and only graduate of The Citadel Graduate College to serve on The Citadel Board of Visitors, Love is the longest-serving voting member on the board in college history. She has chaired the Communications and Community Relations Committee for many years. Love also serves multiple additional committees and previously assisted with the search for President, Vice President, Provost and Legislative Liaison. A lifetime member of The Citadel Alumni Association, Love has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni by The Citadel MBA Association in 2004.

She has served as a speaker at a variety of insurance and higher education meetings and has delivered national and international speeches and training sessions nearly 30 years. Having previously served on the SC Commission on Higher Education in leadership positions on a variety of committees, Love currently serves on the boards of Titan Insurance Company, Inc., SC SAFE HOME, the SC Women in Leadership and the US Global Leadership Coalition SC Advisory Committee. She is also an associate member of the SC Women’s Caucus. She also served on the Lowcountry Graduate Center Board of Directors for many years, where she was chair and vice chair.

Love holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in management from Middle Tennessee State University, a Master of Business Administration from The Citadel and an Associate in Personal Insurance from the Insurance Institute of America. Along with her husband, Phil, Love has initiated multiple scholarships to support Citadel cadets and students, including two for The Citadel Graduate College and two for her native state of Tennessee. Together they are members of The Citadel Society of 1842, The Citadel Legacy Society, The Star of the West Society and The Order of the Tartan. 

Barbara Melvin, Alvah H. Chapman, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award

Barbara Melvin knows firsthand what ambition and willingness to take a challenge head on can accomplish. As the first woman to lead a top 10 U.S. operating container port, her skilled leadership guided many of the port’s significant achievements, including deepening the Charleston Harbor to 52 feet, making it the East Coast’s deepest harbor. Melvin has held numerous leadership positions during her 25 years with SC Ports. What began as a career in government relations and external affairs, advanced to port operations and being named the SC Ports’ Chief Operating Officer in 2018, before becoming CEO in 2022. Since taking the helm in 2022, she has been recognized as a 2023 Leading Woman by SC Women in Leadership, a 2023 Rainmaker by DC Velocity, and was unanimously selected to receive the Outstanding Women in Supply Chain Award from supply chain management students at the University of Tennessee. Melvin proudly leads the SC Ports team as they efficiently move cargo through the Port of Charleston and South Carolina’s two rail-served inland ports

James Wigfall, ’82, Leader of Principle

James Wigfall is currently the Chief Executive Officer, Sound Generations, a $24M non-profit organization providing food security, transportation, health and wellness and assistance services to more than 60,000 older adults and adults with disabilities throughout King County, Washington. Wigfall retired in 2017 as a Vice President at The Boeing Company, a $70B global aerospace company where he was responsible for all shared services provided to Boeing Commercial Airplanes including all the facilities, construction and asset management. 

Wigfall is very active in the community on the Boards of Directors for the King County Library System Foundation, The Citadel Baker School of Business Advisory Board and Comagine Health.  He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from The Citadel and his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee specializing in Aerospace. He served four years in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged as a Captain in the Signal Corps in Augusta, Georgia. Wigfall resides with his wife in Newcastle, Washington, and has one daughter, who is a lawyer working in Houston. Wigfall likes to write fiction and recently published his first novel, Standing Tall. He is also an avid sports fan and enjoys playing golf.