Woodruff Arts Center Announces New CEO

The Woodruff Arts Center Board of Trustees voted unanimously to name Joseph R. Bankoff, 60, senior partner at King & Spalding and a long-time arts and civic leader, its new president, and CEO. He succeeds Shelton g. Stanfill, who retires in June. Woodruff Arts Center ranks among the three largest arts centers in the country.

Bankoff negotiated record-setting TV rights for the 1996 Olympic Games, led the search that attracted Robert Spano and Donald Runnicles to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and chaired the Regional Arts Task Force which created the Metro Atlanta Arts and Culture Coalition (MAACC).