People / Government & civic life
Tulsa airport trustee and corporate director
An employment-law and workforce executive whose public airport duties intersect with corporate governance and civic philanthropy.
Beverly Carmichael serves on Tulsa’s four airport governing bodies. Her documented career includes senior roles at Cracker Barrel and Red Robin, a current Cintas directorship, and participation in the Anita Hill Scholarship Fund.
Led the company’s people function.
Led human resources and legal teams.
Listed in Oklahoma Policy Institute’s tax-year return.
Director start year stated in the definitive proxy.
City roster lists this term start and an April 2029 expiration.
Named as a founder and selection-committee member.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
A current public trusteeship, separate from airport management.
Independent director with separately disclosed corporate compensation.
Founder and selection role connects to a fiscally sponsored scholarship program.
11 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Airport improvement trustee
City roster: July23,2025–April30,2029; airport current roster corroborates
End date is scheduled term expiration, not a confirmed future departure. Separate public bodies, one person.
Airport authority member
City roster: July23,2025–April30,2029; airport current roster corroborates
End date is scheduled term expiration, not a confirmed future departure. Separate public bodies, one person.
Airport development trustee
City roster: July23,2025–April30,2029; airport current roster corroborates
End date is scheduled term expiration, not a confirmed future departure. Separate public bodies, one person.
Municipal airport trustee
City roster: July23,2025–April30,2029; airport current roster corroborates
End date is scheduled term expiration, not a confirmed future departure. Separate public bodies, one person.
Independent corporate director
Director since2024; current official biography and September2026 definitive proxy
Evidence establishes this role only; no inference of ownership, unilateral control or coordination.
Executive vice president and chief people, culture and resource officer
2017–2019
Evidence establishes this role only; no inference of ownership, unilateral control or coordination.
Senior vice president and chief people officer
2014–2017
Evidence establishes this role only; no inference of ownership, unilateral control or coordination.
BBA and JD graduate
Degrees documented in2022; years not established
Evidence establishes this role only; no inference of ownership, unilateral control or coordination.
Board member in tax-year2023 return
2023 reporting period
Historical tax-return snapshot; neither appointment nor departure date established. No current role inferred.
Scholarship cofounder and selection-committee member
Current program page and VEST biography
Evidence establishes this role only; no inference of ownership, unilateral control or coordination.
Fiscally sponsored by · StitchCrew
Current program description
Program and fiscal sponsor are separate; does not establish that Carmichael controls StitchCrew.
Dated public records
$297,545
Fiscal year ended May 31, 2026; definitive proxy filed September 15, 2026
USD: $112,500 cash fees + $92,502 stock grant-date fair value + $92,543 option grant-date fair value. PDF p21/printed13; not total personal income or realized equity proceeds.
The joint airport agenda for October 8, 2026, illustrates the business before the boards during Carmichael’s term: an air-service grant match, advertising arrangements, rental-car-garage utility relocation, an Allegiant Air sublease and a proposed Riverside walking-trail agreement with the city. The trail item was contingent on state aeronautics approval. These items show the boards’ operational and development remit. An agenda alone does not establish Carmichael’s attendance, her vote, final approval or project completion. Individual decisions require the corresponding minutes or other outcome records. The city states that airport authority members serve without compensation and are appointed by the mayor with council confirmation.
The development trust promotes economic development around the airport through the relevant tax-increment-financing project plan. The municipal airport trust has a narrower connection to the American Airlines maintenance and engineering center: the city describes its role as leasing land and fixtures and financing improvements through bonds backed by the airline. These are distinct institutional responsibilities even where trustees overlap. Carmichael’s affiliation does not establish a personal stake in airport tenants. VEST identifies her as a TAIT trustee working with airport chief executive Alexis Higgins; that places board oversight and executive management in their respective roles.
Carmichael holds bachelor of business administration and law degrees from the University of Oklahoma, according to a 2022 Directors & Boards biography. Cintas’s current biography traces her earlier work through legal practice at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Southwest Airlines, and leadership positions at Southwest, Ticketmaster and Rockwell Collins. The available sources support that career sequence without establishing every start and departure date. Her professional experience concerns employment law, human resources and organizational leadership; it should not be read as proof that she personally directs every institution where she holds a board seat.
Nation’s Restaurant News reported her appointment as Cracker Barrel’s chief people officer in March 2014, with responsibility for recruiting, training, developing and retaining employees. The report identified her earlier consulting business, Star HR LLC, and university teaching and advisory work. Cintas dates her Cracker Barrel service to 2014–2017 and her subsequent role as Red Robin’s executive vice president and chief people, culture and resource officer to 2017–2019, when she led human resources and legal teams. These are historical employment roles, distinct from her present public trusteeships.
Cintas identifies Carmichael as an independent director who joined its board in 2024. Its September 2026 definitive proxy places her on the compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees. For the fiscal year ended May 31, 2026, the company reported $112,500 in cash fees, $92,502 in stock awards and $92,543 in option awards, totaling $297,545. The equity figures are aggregate grant-date fair values under the company’s accounting disclosure, not cash receipts or realized investment gains. The total covers this directorship for that fiscal year; it is not a measure of her entire income, assets or airport compensation.
Oklahoma Policy Institute’s 2023 tax return lists Carmichael as a board member. That dated return documents a nonprofit governance connection without establishing that she remains on the board today. A separate current institutional connection is the Anita Hill Scholarship Fund: its official program page names Carmichael as a founder and selection-committee member, and VEST describes her as a cofounder. The scholarship honors Anita Hill; StitchCrew serves as fiscal sponsor. The program, the honoree and the sponsor should be understood separately. The page schedules its 2026 awards for November; an announced award schedule is not evidence that grants have already been paid.
Check the record
Research checked 2026-10-31. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
Official roster and governing summary · Checked 2026-09-30
Audit Committee: purpose, composition and seat 02. Parks board: advisory purpose. Performing Arts Center Trust: purpose and mayor/designee seat 01. Public Facilities Authority: purpose and mayor/designee seat 01, with listed term expiration July 31, 2026; continued service not verified.
Primary institutional record · Checked 2026-10-02
TAIT five-member roster; checked October 2, 2026. Conflicts with City roster noted privately.
primary · Checked 2026-10-31
Named current director biography; Red Robin 2017–2019, Cracker Barrel 2014–2017; earlier employers.
primary · Checked 2026-10-31
Named participant biography connects corporate career to TAIT, Alexis Higgins and scholarship cofounding. Attributed institutional self-description.
primary · Source date 2026-09-15 · Checked 2026-10-31
PDF p11/printed3 biography and committees; PDF p21/printed13 director compensation and footnotes, fiscal year ended May31,2026, USD. Definitive SEC filing 000072325426000040, supersedes preliminary filing.
primary · Source date 2026-10-05 · Checked 2026-10-31
PDF pp1–3 items3–6,11–12; filed October5 at3:53PM. Agenda describes proposed actions, not attendance, votes or completed outcomes.
reporting · Source date 2014-03-04 · Checked 2026-10-31
Ron Ruggless, Nations Restaurant News; appointment, Star HR LLC, prior employers and university advisory/teaching work.
reporting · Source date 2022 · Checked 2026-10-31
PDF p48/printed46 Beverly Carmichael biography: BBA and JD, University of Oklahoma; historical board roles.
primary · Checked 2026-10-31
Tax year2023; PDF/printedp7 PartVII board member Beverly Carmichael. Historical role only; no current membership or compensation amount asserted.
primary · Checked 2026-10-31
Founder/selection-committee biography Beverly K. Carmichael; program fiscal sponsor StitchCrew; awards scheduled November2026.
