James Luin "Skip" Rutherford III (born January 28, 1950) is an American non-profit executive and academic administrator.
James Luin Rutherford III was born on January 28, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee.
[1] In 1997 he became the first president of the Clinton Foundation,[3] and was still heading the board at the end of 2004, when the other directors were Senator David Pryor, Ann Jordan, Terrence McAuliffe, and Cheryl Mills.
[4] In 2006, Rutherford was chairman of the Clinton Foundation, executive vice president of Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods, a communications firm in Little Rock, and a visiting professor at the University of Central Arkansas.
[5] Rutherford was the Dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service from April 2006, when he succeeded Senator David Pryor,[6] until his retirement in 2021.