Longtime Madison energy executive Erroll B. Davis has a new job that will take him out of Wisconsin and into academia. Thursday morning, in a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the appointment of Davis as the system’s new chancellor.
Davis becomes both the first African-American and the first person from outside academia to hold the chancellor’s job, though he told The Capital Times last month that academia “has always been an interest of mine.” Davis served for seven years (1987-94) on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and also served on the boards of trustees of Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Chicago.