Community member and philanthropist Lewis Nerman was elected to serve a three-year term on the board of trustees of Park University, a private university in Parkville, Missouri.
He is one of four men elected as board members.
Nerman, who splits his time between Leawood, Kansas, and Florida, is the founder and managing partner of Truck Center of America LLC in Leawood, a company formed in 2003. He was formerly with Arrow Truck Sales, a company started by his father, Jerry Nerman, and served as its president from 1985 to 2000.
A collector of contemporary art, Nerman and his family provided the lead gift for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) in Overland Park, Kansas. In addition to numerous art-related boards across the country, Nerman is a past board member of the JCCC Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Kauffman Scholars, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, Jewish Vocational Service and Shalom Geriatric (now Village Shalom). Nerman earned a master’s degree in executive education/owner-president management from the Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Nerman was elected alongside Brian Mertz, Sam Stahnke and Levi Young, M.D. Scott Jackman was elected as chairman of the board.
