Thomas W. Ross, Sr. is the president-elect of Davidson College. After having served as executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem since 2001, Ross is scheduled to take over leadership of the private North Carolina liberal arts college on August 1, 2007. Davidson College is a private liberal arts college for 1,700 students in Davidson, North Carolina. ... Winston-Salem is a city located in Forsyth County, North Carolina. ...
Ross graduated from Davidson in 1972, as did his father in 1937 and his children in 1999 and 2001. Ross became an attorney, chief of staff to Congressman Robin Britt, a state superior court judge for 17 years, and director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts before joining the Reynolds Foundation. In law, and more specifically, in the Anglo-American common law legal tradition, a superior court is a court of general jurisdiction over all, or major, civil and criminal cases. ...
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Winston-Salem Journal article: Davidson College alum returns as its new president