Thomas W. Ross
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Thomas W. Ross, Sr. is the president-elect of Davidson College. After having served as executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem since 2001, Ross is scheduled to take over leadership of the private North Carolina liberal arts college on August 1, 2007.
Ross graduated from Davidson in 1972, as did his father in 1937 and his children in 1999 and 2001. Ross became an attorney, chief of staff to Congressman Robin Britt, a state superior court judge for 17 years, and director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts before joining the Reynolds Foundation.
Ross is the recipient of the William Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence, the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Governing Magazine's National Public Official of the Year award (one of ten, 1994), and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. [1]
