Wellesley Names Harvard’s Paula A. Johnson Its 14th President | Wellesley College

Wellesley Names Harvard’s Paula A. Johnson Its 14th President | Wellesley College:



"Wellesley Names Harvard’s Paula A. Johnson Its 14th President  WELLESLEY, Mass.—Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH, a professor and faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been selected to be the 14th president of Wellesley College, the preeminent liberal arts college for women. Dr. Johnson, an internationally renowned and innovative leader, currently serves as chief of the Division of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she founded and is executive director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology. She will be the first African American to serve as president of Wellesley College. The Wellesley College Board of Trustees, advised by a search committee that included trustees, alumnae, students, faculty, and staff, unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. Johnson. The extensive, eight-month search process that led to her selection began when H. Kim Bottomly announced that she would step down as Wellesley’s president in the summer of 2016, after serving for nine years."