Harvard Board Elects First Black Woman
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
A Georgetown University law professor who specializes in biomedical ethics has become the first Black woman to sit on Harvard University’s governing board.
Patricia A. King, a 1969 alumna of Harvard Law School who has been on the Georgetown faculty for more than three decades, was elected in December to the seven-member Harvard Corporation, the university announced.
King is “a person of extraordinarily broad intellectual and professional interests” with “abundant experience in bridging the worlds of academia and public policy, as well as the domains of law, science and ethics,” James R. Houghton, senior member of the Harvard Corporation, said in a prepared statement.
King, who begins in May, said she’s “deeply honored.”
“The extremely difficult challenges facing the nation and the world over the coming decades will require substantial efforts and contributions by our institutions of higher education,” King said in a statement.
