Knauss to Replace Fowler as USD Board Chairman

SAN DIEGO, CA: Ron Fowler is stepping down from the University of San Diego Board of Trustees after a 10-year run as chairman, and will be replaced in the leadership role by veteran board member Donald Knauss, the school announced Thursday.

Fowler, the Padres' executive chairman, has served on the board for 20 years as a whole. He's steering the university through a $300 million capital campaign and, in 2012, helped fund construction of a 1,700-seat baseball stadium.

Knauss was chairman and CEO of Clorox Corp. when he became a USD trustee in 2008. He is a board member for the Kellogg Company and URS Corp., and a trustee for Morehouse College and the Marine Corps University Foundation.

He will replace Fowler on July 1.

USD also announced two new trustees will begin terms that day — Arizona lawyer Mark Bosco and Tom Mulvaney, a 1977 USD School of Law graduate who helped endow the university's Center for Community Service Learning.

City News Service