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Dick Lumpkin currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors. He began his 45-year career in telecommunications with Illinois Consolidated Telephone Co. (ICTC), a pioneer Central Illinois telephone company and predecessor to Consolidated Communications, Inc., founded in 1894 by his great-grandfather, Iverson A. Lumpkin, in Mattoon, Illinois.
In 1984, he was named president of Consolidated Communications Inc., then served as chairman and chief executive officer from 1990 until 1997. While under McLeodUSA ownership, Mr. Lumpkin served as Vice Chairman of McLeodUSA from 1997 until the company’s return to private ownership in 2002.
Long active in the telecommunications industry, he is a past director, past president and past treasurer of the U. S. Telecommunications Association, and is a past president of the Illinois Telecommunications Association. Mr. Lumpkin also served as chairman and director of Illuminet Holdings, Inc. and Independent Telecommunications Network and also held director positions for Teldata and National Telecommunications Network.
He is currently a director of Ameren and First Mid-Illinois Bancshares, Inc. He is a past chairman of Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Systems, Inc., and a past director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce. He also served on the University Council Committee on Information Technology for Yale University, the Illinois Business Roundtable, and served on the advisory boards of Eastern Illinois University School of Business and the College of Commerce at the University of Illinois.
Lumpkin received the Distinguished Service Award from the United States Telecom Association, the Beta Gamma Sigma Medallion for Entrepreneurship, and in recognition for his lifetime commitment to East Central Illinois, he received a Doctorate in Public Service (Honorary) from Eastern Illinois University.
A graduate of Yale University, Lumpkin holds an MBA from Harvard University.
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