Post by Aggie77 on Aug 27, 2010 7:01:17 GMT -5
Thursday, August 26, 2010 (Updated 4:50 pm)
By Gary D. Robertson
Associated Press
RALEIGH (AP) — The University of North Carolina's governing board elected Davidson College President Tom Ross on Thursday to become head of the state's higher education system, bringing in a former judge with deep ties to state government and UNC.
www.news-record.com/content/2010/08/26/article/ross_named_to_run_unc_system
Tom Ross Born June 5, 1950.
Greensboro native and Grimsley High School graduate; bachelor’s degree from Davidson College; and law degree with honors from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law.
Assistant professor of public law and government at the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill
1976-82: Private law practice in Greensboro
1981-83: Guilford County Democratic Party chairman
1982-84: Served as an aide to U.S. Rep. Robin Britt
1984-2000: Appointed by Gov. Jim Hunt to fill the Guilford Superior Court judgeship vacated by Judge Charles T. Kivett. At 33, he was the youngest among 67 Superior Court judges.
1988: Appointed by Chief Justice James Exum of the N.C. Supreme Court to the Legislative Study Commission on Judicial Selection. Served as chairman of the Guilford County Substance Abuse Study Committee and as a member of the Guilford County Corrections Commission.
2001-07: Executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
2007-present: President of Davidson College
By Gary D. Robertson
Associated Press
RALEIGH (AP) — The University of North Carolina's governing board elected Davidson College President Tom Ross on Thursday to become head of the state's higher education system, bringing in a former judge with deep ties to state government and UNC.
www.news-record.com/content/2010/08/26/article/ross_named_to_run_unc_system
Tom Ross Born June 5, 1950.
Greensboro native and Grimsley High School graduate; bachelor’s degree from Davidson College; and law degree with honors from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law.
Assistant professor of public law and government at the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill
1976-82: Private law practice in Greensboro
1981-83: Guilford County Democratic Party chairman
1982-84: Served as an aide to U.S. Rep. Robin Britt
1984-2000: Appointed by Gov. Jim Hunt to fill the Guilford Superior Court judgeship vacated by Judge Charles T. Kivett. At 33, he was the youngest among 67 Superior Court judges.
1988: Appointed by Chief Justice James Exum of the N.C. Supreme Court to the Legislative Study Commission on Judicial Selection. Served as chairman of the Guilford County Substance Abuse Study Committee and as a member of the Guilford County Corrections Commission.
2001-07: Executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
2007-present: President of Davidson College
