Roger Tedrick

Roger B. Tedrick was appointed to the SIU Board of Trustees by Gov. J.B. Pritzker on March 22, 2019. He was originally appointed to the Board in 2004 and is a former member of both the SIU Alumni Association and SIU Foundation Boards.

He is president of the Tedrick Group Risk Management Solutions, a risk management and commercial insurance firm based in Mount Vernon. He founded the firm with his wife, Sally, in 1984.

Mr. Tedrick was born in Vandalia but spent much of his childhood in Carbondale. He attended University High School and graduated from SIU Carbondale in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Active at SIU, he co-chaired the Undergraduate Academics Committee for Southern at 150: Building Excellence Through Commitment, SIU Carbondale’s long-range plan. He has also represented alumni and friends of the university on many searches for the Carbondale campus.

Mr. Tedrick is past president of the Jefferson County Development Corporation and a partner with Illinois Minerals LLC and Illinois Methane, LLC. He is a Board member of Intersect Illinois, an economic development organization.

Mr. Tedrick is committed to seeing all campuses within the SIU system excel. He says SIU Edwardsville is poised to grow with the Metro East area as it expands and believes the SIU School of Medicine is critical to the future of rural health care in Illinois.