The search begins Committee formed to secure Chancellors for Southern University-Shreveport

The search committees for the Southern University Shreveport campus chancellor along with the SU Law Center chancellor were announced September 23. The two committees will assist the SU System with delegating replacements for Ray Belton, former SUSLA chancellor and current SU System President-Chancellor, and retired judge Freddie Pritcher Jr., who stepped down from his position as SULC chancellor in June.
“We will rely on the deliberations and experience of these select groups of knowledgeable individuals as we seek qualified and dynamic leaders for our nationally recognized community college campus and our Law Center,” said Belton.
The Shreveport campus chancellor 13-member search committee includes, from SUSLA: Levi Brown, Student Government Association President; Larry Ferdinand, Executive Director of Corporate and Business Development; S. Albert Gilliam, Interim Chancellor, Sonya Hester, Associate Professor of English and Faculty Senate President; Brandy Jacobsen, Interim Vice-Chancellor; Janice Sneed, Vice Chancellor; and Tiffany Williams Varner, Director of the School of Nursing. Others include Dottie Bell, former SU Board of Supervisors member; retired Judge Leon Emanuel; attorney Wendell Piper, president of the SUSLA Foundation Board of Directors; E. Jean Ware, a retired educator; and Frank Williams, Executive Director of the SUSLA Foundation. Willie C. White III serves as chairman for this committee.
Dwayne Murray, a partner in Murray and Murray Law Firm, serves as chairman for the 14-member SU Law Center Chancellor Search Committee. SULC faculty, student, and staff representatives include: Alfreda Diamond, Interim Chancellor for Institutional Accountability and Evening Division; Angela Scott-Gaines, computer support specialist; Patrick Harrington, President of the Student Bar Association; attorney Virginia Listach, Director of the Law Clinic; Andrea Love, Director of Recruitment; and attorney Winston Riddick, a retired SULC professor. SULC alumni representatives include: Timothy Hardy, member of the Louisiana Technical and Community College System Board of Supervisors; Louisiana State Representative Edward “Ted” James; attorney Patsy A. Randall, assistant district attorney, 15th Judicial District; Domoine Rutledge, President of the SU System Foundation Board of Directors; attorney Willie James Singleton; and attorney Joseph K. “Joe” West, President and CEO of Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
The SUSLA Chancellor Search Committee met for the first time October 1, in the Jesse Stone Science Lecture Hall. The SULC Chancellor Search Committee will hold its first meeting in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room on the second floor of the J.S. Clark Administration building, at 3 pm.