Scripps College Chooses New Trustee Chair

The Scripps College Board of Trustees has chosen Mark R. Herron to take over the chairperson position as of July 1, 2014.

The board voted unanimously for Herron unanimously on May 18.

“Mark is exceptionally well qualified to lead Scripps College’s Board of Trustees,” said Linda Davis Taylor, current board chair. “We take pride in welcoming Mark as our board chair-elect for the coming academic year.”

Herron earned an MBA from UCLA and a BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University. Board officials said he has played a critical role in the financial management of the college through his service on the Investment, Finance, and Audit Committees.

He is currently chair of the Finance Committee and vice chair of the Investment Committee. He has also served on the Nominations and Governance Committee since 2009.

According to a biography issued by the college:

“Herron is the President and CEO of the Davidson Group, an investment management company based in Incline Village, Nev., and has served in a number of leadership positions with previous companies. He is also a licensed engineer whose civic duties have included service on several governing boards. He is currently active on the boards of KNPB television, the PBS station in Reno, and the Davidson Academy of Nevada, a tuition-free public school for gifted students on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.

“Herron’s mother, Jeannette Pierson Herron ’45, majored in mathematics at Scripps and became one of the College’s early proponents of mathematics as essential to a liberal arts education. She served as an alumna trustee from 1968 to 1973. By establishing through a gift in 2004 the Joseph and Jeannette Herron endowed Chair in Mathematics, she and her husband Joseph enabled future generations of Scripps students to pursue their interests in mathematics at Scripps.”