 Dr.
Marie McDemmond is president of Norfolk State University (NSU), the nation's fifth largest
historically black university. She is the university's first female president and the
first woman to serve as the chief executive officer of a four-year, state supported
university in Virginia. Prior to becoming president of Norfolk State on July 1, 1997, Dr.
McDemmond served as vice president for finance for Florida Atlantic University and its
seven campuses. Dr. McDemmond served as vice
president for budget and finance at Atlanta University, associate vice chancellor for
administration and finance and budget director at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, assistant vice president for finance at Emory University, and director of finance
for the 15 community colleges in Massachusetts. She also has been an associate in higher
education for the New York State Board of Regents, the acting deputy director for
administration and business officer at the Bronx Psychiatric Center, and assistant
professor of education at the University of New Orleans, where she taught graduate courses
in school and higher education finance and management. Dr. McDemmond started her career in
higher education as the director of Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at the
College of New Rochelle in New Rochelle, New York.
Dr. McDemmond received her academic training from Xavier
University of Louisiana, where she was awarded the bachelor's degree, and from the
University of New Orleans, where she received her master's degree. She did additional
graduate work in public finance and management at the State University of New York at
Albany and received her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. McDemmond has been president of the Council of Minority
Educators in Massachusetts' Public Colleges and Universities, the New England Minority
Women Administrators, and the Florida Association for Women in Education (FAWE), as well
as a board member and president of the Southern Association of College and University
Business Officers (SACUBO), and the first African-American woman to head any of the
National Association of Colleges and University Business Officers (NACUBO) regions, on
whose board she served. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta National Sorority and has
served on the board of directors for the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. Dr.
McDemmond is a member of the board of directors of SLM Holding, and SALLIE MAE, the board
of the Virginia Foundation for Women, the United Way of Greater Hampton Roads, the Urban
League of Hampton Roads. Dr. McDemmond is also an advisory board member, Girl Scout
Council of Colonial Coast.
Dr. McDemmond teaches in Wellesley and Bryn Mawr Colleges'
Project HERS, and she has published articles in professional journals and speaks on topics
ranging from financial management to leadership.
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