2010 Conference Speakers

Judith White

President and Executive Director of HERS (Higher Education Resources Services)

Judith S. White has been President and Executive Director of HERS (Higher Education Resources Services) since June 2005. During her tenure, the organization has launched the HERS Institute at the University of Denver, expanded the HERS Institute at Wellesley, and begun transition of the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute to a new shorter format. These changes will create a shared and enhanced curriculum across all HERS Institutes, while also nearly doubling the capacity of HERS Institutes to serve women faculty and administrators seeking leadership and management development.

Before coming to HERS, Dr. White was an administrator and faculty member at Duke University, 1993-2005, serving first as Special Assistant to the President and later as Assistant Vice President for Campus Services. During that time, she was Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies, Chair of the Duke University Administrative Women's Network and member of the Executive Committee of the Duke Women's Initiative. She was also on the Executive Board of BRIDGES, a program promoting academic leadership for women in North Carolina Higher Education.

In 2001, she was a member of the Founding Executive Committee for the Samuel DuBois Cooke Society, an organization created to celebrate the values of Samuel DuBois Cooke, former Duke faculty member, on the occasion of his retirement from the presidency of Dillard University. In 2005, she received the Cooke Society's Community Betterment Award for her work on behalf of cultural diversity and inclusive practice at Duke University.

Dr. White was a Senior Fellow at the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU) from 2002-2005, serving as Chair of the Executive Committee of Campus Women Lead, an AACU project to promote multicultural alliances in support of inclusive excellence in higher education.

From 1988-1993, Dr. White was at Dartmouth College first as the founding Director of the Women's Resource Center and then as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Earlier in her career, she held administrative positions and taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Queens College (Charlotte) and at UNC-Charlotte. During this time, she served as President of the Southeastern Women's Studies Association. From 2003-2005, she was member of the North Carolina Humanities Committee.

Dr. White attended Salem College and graduated from Princeton University; she has her MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and PhD in English from the University of Virginia.