Ross elected UNC president
By Hayley Burgess
Managing Editor
Thomas W. Ross was unanimously elected president of the 17- campus University of North Carolina system on Aug. 26 by the UNC Board of Governors.
Ross, president of Davidson College and a former North Carolina Superior Court judge and foundation executive will take office Jan. 1, 2011. He succeeds Erskine Bowles who announced in February he would retire in December after serving for five years as the UNC system president.
Ross was born and raised in Greensboro, N.C., and then earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Davidson College before graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Law in 1975. He held a job in a law firm before being appointed to the North Carolina Superior Court where he held a position for 17 years.
"I love this State of ours, and there is no institution more important to North Carolina and her future than the University of North Carolina," Ross said.
Ross has been married to Susan Donaldson Ross since 1972. They have two adult children, Thomas W. Ross, Jr. and Mary Kathryn Ross Elkins, and they also have a ninemonth- old grandson, Nolan Elkins.
