Erroll Davis

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Erroll B. Davis
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
from the 24th district
In office
January 5, 1971 – November 30, 1972
Preceded byTheodore Johnson
Succeeded byJoseph Rhodes Jr.
Personal details
Born (1944-08-05) August 5, 1944 (age 79)
Atlanta, GA
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University

Erroll Brown Davis Jr. (born August 5, 1944) is an American administrator and businessman.

Career

Business career

Erroll earned a

MBA in finance from the University of Chicago
in 1967.

Previously, Davis served as the superintendent of the

Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as the chancellor of the University System of Georgia, where he was responsible for the state's 35 public colleges and universities. He has also served as the chairman of the board at Alliant Energy Corporation and president and CEO of WPL Holdings, and a chairman of the Carnegie Mellon University
board of trustees.

Political career

Davis is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[2]

From 1998 to 2010, he was a non-executive director of multinational oil company BP plc.[citation needed]

In July 2011, Davis was appointed as APS's interim superintendent, to serve the position until June 30, 2012.[3]

Davis currently serves as a member of the Board of Curators for the Georgia Historical Society. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for leadership in research and development of renewable resources integration with the grid, and public education.

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