"Kip" Johnson Re-Elected Board Chair; Dr. George Boggs Becomes Vice Chair
Everett C. "Kip" Johnson, attorney and former Phi Theta Kappa National
President, was re-elected Chair of the Society's Board of Directors during
the Board's recent winter meeting. Dr. George Boggs, President of the American
Association of Community Colleges, was elected Vice Chair. Dr. Boggs replaces
the late Dr. Shirley Gordon, who had served on Phi Theta Kappa's Board of
Directors for more than 20 years.
Johnson is Senior Litigation
Partner for the Washington, D.C. law firm of Latham and Watkins LLP. He was
inducted into Phi Theta Kappa at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, and
served as National President in 1975-76.
Johnson transferred
to Duke University, and graduated summa cum laude. He received his law degree
from the University of Virginia, where he served as Managing Editor of the
Virginia Law Review.
He became a member of the Phi Theta Kappa
Board of Directors in 1996. Johnson also served as moderator for the International
Convention Conversation with keynote speaker Rudy Giuliani in 2005.
Johnson
has more than 20 years of civil and criminal litigation experience at both
the trial and appellate level; has handled securities class actions, Securities
and Exchange enforcement actions and Department of Justice and Congressional
investigations. He has argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court.
As
head of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Dr. Boggs
leads the nation's 1,100 two-year colleges, the largest single sector
of higher education. He has 30 years' experience as an educator and an extensive
portfolio of leadership activities at regional, state and national levels.
Before
becoming the ninth president of AACC, an 80-year old association with historic
ties to Phi Theta Kappa, Dr. Boggs served as superintendent/president
of Palomar College in California. A native of Conneaut, Ohio, he has spent
the better part of his career in California. Prior to assuming the presidency
of Palomar College in 1985, he served from 1981-1985 as associate dean of
instruction and from 1972-1981 as division chair at Butte College, also
in California.
Dr. Boggs earned his Ph.D. in educational administration
from the University of Texas at Austin, his master's degree in chemistry
from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his bachelor's degree
in chemistry from The Ohio State University.
A prolific writer,
Dr. Boggs has authored more than 50 articles or chapters and has lectured
extensively on key higher educational issues including faculty preparation
and evaluation, leadership development, college governance, developmental
education, and cultural diversity.
Maggie Webster, Phi Theta
Kappa's 2008-2009 International Vice President for Division II, was selected
as the 2009 Student Representative to meet with the Board of Directors.
Webster accepted membership into the Beta Lambda Delta Chapter at Jefferson
State Community College-Shelby Campus in Birmingham, Alabama.
She
served as her chapter's Vice President of Scholarship and in 2008 the Alabama
Region named her a Distinguished Chapter Officer. In 2008, she was also
named a member of the All-Alabama Academic Team. Webster's chapter was
named Most Distinguished for 2008.
A sociology major, Webster
hopes to attend law school and become a human rights advocate.
Phi
Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is
the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,250 chapters
on college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the
Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated
States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates
and U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students have
been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students
inducted annually.
