JACKSON, Miss. – Jackson State University has hired Vivian Fuller as its first female athletic director.
University President Carolyn Meyers introduced Fuller at a news conference on Wednesday.
The 56-year-old Fuller replaces Bob Braddy.
“I’m excited to be a Tiger,” Fuller said. “Jackson State has such a long and proud tradition. I look forward to honoring that tradition and helping our student athletes be the best they can be.”
The daughter of a North Carolina sharecropper, Fuller has spent eight years at Sojourner-Douglass College, where she is dean of the Cambridge, Md., campus.
She also has been an athletic director at University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Tennessee State University and Northeastern Illinois University.
A pioneer in promoting women’s sports, Fuller served as a member of the NCAA Gender Equity Task Force.
