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Ray Klinginsmith, Kirksville, Missouri, USA
President-elect, Rotary International, 2009-10
Trustee Vice Chair, The Rotary Foundation, 2005-06
Trustee, The Rotary Foundation, 2002-06
Director, Rotary International, 1985-87
District Governor, 1975-76
Ray Klinginsmith is an attorney in Kirksville, Missouri, USA, who now works primarily in the areas of commercial and corporate law, real estate, and estate planning. He retired in August 1995 as general counsel and professor of business administration for Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State University) in Kirksville after 22 years of service. During his tenure at the university, he also served as dean of administration for five years during the university’s transition to a liberal arts and sciences institution. Since his retirement from the university, he served a four-year term (2001-04) as a county commissioner for Adair County.
Ray has served as a director of the Macon Atlanta State Bank in Macon, Missouri, since 1971, and he was one of the initial trustees for the Missouri Family Trust, which was created by the Missouri legislature in 1989. He has been the president of Chariton Valley Association for Handicapped Citizens since its organization in 1982, and he was accorded the 1988 Parent/Caretaker Award by the Missouri Planning Council for Developmental Disabilities. He is a former member of the executive board for the Great Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the holder of its Silver Beaver Award for adult volunteers. He is a member of the First United Methodist Church in Kirksville and a former lay speaker for the church.
A Rotarian since 1961, Ray has served Rotary as district governor, chair of the 1998 Council on Legislation in New Delhi and the 2008 Los Angeles Convention Committee. He was a member of the RI Board of Directors for 1985-87 and chaired its executive committee in 1986-87. Ray joined The Rotary Foundation Trustees in 2002, serving as vice chair in 2005-06, and was a member of the Future Vision Committee from 2005 to 2008.He is a Major Donor and a recipient of the Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award.
Ray’s wife, Judie, is a former elementary school teacher in Macon and Kirksville and a former consultant for the child development assistant program at the Kirksville Area Vocational Center. Ray and Judie have two children, Leigh and Kurt, and three grandchildren, Morgan, Grant, and Sydney Perkins.