Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Jon E. Barfield '74 Completes Term as Princeton Trustee, 2001

Jon Barfield was appointed President of the Bartech Group in 1981 and was named Chairman in 1995. Prior to his current position, Mr. Barfield also served as President of Barfield Manufacturing Company. Earlier in his career, Jon practiced corporate and securities law at one of the nation's leading law firms, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood in Chicago.

Mr. Barfield serves on the Board of Directors of National City Corporation, Tecumseh Products Company, Dow Jones & Company, BMC Software and Granite Broadcasting Corporation. He is also a Director of Pantellos Group Limited Partnership, Inc., the energy industry's leading internet-based procurement marketplace.

Jon volunteers his time as a Director of several major, non-profit institutions. He is a Charter Trustee Emeritus of Princeton University, and a member of the Board of Trustees of The Henry Ford (formerly Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village), Reading Is Fundamental, Kettering University and Detroit Renaissance. He has served as a Director of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, The Children's Center and the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan. He is also Past President of the National Technical Services Association, one of the staffing industry's leading trade associations.

Mr. Barfield graduated with honors from Princeton University in 1974, and received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1977.