W&L Welcomes New Trustee Rebecca Timmis Russell ’08 Trustee-elect Kevin Batteh ’95, ‘98L, winner of the 2026 Alumni Trustee Election, will be sworn in at the board’s fall meeting.

Office of Communications and Public Affairs
May 9, 2026

Rebecca Timmis Russell ’08 joined the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees on May 8, at the board’s spring meeting in Lexington, Virginia. At the same meeting, Kevin Batteh ’95, ’98L was approved to join the board in October 2026 after being elected by fellow alumni through a process led by the W&L Alumni Association’s Board of Directors that invited all alumni to nominate and vote on a slate of candidates.

Rebecca Timmis Russell ’08 graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She earned her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Palmer Scholar and an F.H. Shields Fellow. She is a partner at Bain & Company, a leading global management consulting firm that advises businesses on strategy, marketing, organization, operations and technology.

Russell joined the Atlanta office of Bain & Company in 2007. She is a leader in the firm’s Consumer Products and Organization practices, as well as the talent lead for the Americas. In her role, she works closely with senior executives to drive growth, strengthen organizational effectiveness and lead large-scale transformations. Her work centers on helping organizations translate strategy into meaningful, sustained impact, and she has a particular interest in how emerging technologies are reshaping the future of work.

As a W&L student, she was a member of the 2007 NCAA Division III National Championship women’s tennis team, a member of Kappa Delta sorority and executive director of the Washington and Lee Student Consulting Group. An L.K. Johnson-Rosasco Scholar, she was also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma honor society and the Outing Club.

As an alumna, Russell has supported W&L in numerous volunteer roles, including as a member of the Williams School Advisory Board, as a class agent, as co-chair of the reunion committee for her 15th reunion, as a member for her class’s 10th reunion committee, as an alumni chapter volunteer and as a Career and Professional Development speaker.

In addition, she serves on the board of directors for the National Institute of Student Success, a nonprofit focused on improving outcomes in higher education.

Russell and her husband reside in Atlanta and have two children.

Kevin Batteh ’95, ’98L will join the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees at the board’s October 2026 meeting. He graduated from W&L in 1995 with a B.A. in English and received a J.D. from Washington and Lee School of Law in 1998.