Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 15, 1993 TAG: 9312150093
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: allison blake
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Gov. Douglas Wilder announced his five appointees Monday. Leading the committee will be Brig. Gen. Hazel Johnson-Brown of Clifton, the first black woman to be named a general in the U.S. military. She's a professor at George Mason University's College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and leads its Center for Health Policy.
Wilder's other appointees were his deputy chief of staff, Jorman D. Granger of Midlothian; Crewe Town Council member Edwards Walker Saunders; Arlington Commissioner of Revenue Geraldine Whiting; and retired Brig. Gen. Mary Willis of Alexandria, former director of personnel for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Gen. Colin Powell.
VMI has not appointed its two members, said spokesman Mike Strickler.
Mary Baldwin has named two members of its board of trustees: Beverly E. Bates of Richmond and Carole Lewis Anderson, a Washington, D.C., alumna and businesswoman, said spokeswoman Ann Spencer.
A panel of Mary Baldwin faculty is developing the curriculum, apparently independently from the oversight committee. The committee, approved by both schools' boards in September, will oversee the plan being developed as VMI seeks to retain its male-only admission policy. If approved by the courts, the Mary Baldwin program will satisfy a court ruling against VMI, the result of a 3-year-old case brought by the U.S. Justice Department.
The private VMI Foundation will give the private women's school $6.9 million to start the leadership foundation, if it passes constitutional muster.
Hearings on the plan will start Feb. 9 in U.S. District Court in Roanoke.
by CNB