Mercer University's Board of Trustees Elect Hudson as Chair

MACON, GA (11/16/2011)(readMedia)-- Mercer University's Board of Trustees elected Augusta attorney David E. Hudson as chair on Nov. 11 during its annual meeting at the University Center in Macon. He will serve as chairman for a one-year term.

Hudson is a 1968 graduate of Mercer and a 1971 graduate of Harvard Law School. He currently serves as a partner in Hull Barrett PC, an Augusta law firm, and is a frequent lecturer in libel and First Amendment Law to journalists and broadcasters. Hudson is now in his sixth term the Mercer Board of Trustees. He is also a member of the Mercer President's Club.

An Army veteran, Hudson has an extensive record of professional and community service. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a former member and chairman of the Georgia Board of Bar Examiners, the former chairman of the Civil Justice Reform Committee for the Southern District of Georgia, Southern District of Georgia Attorney Advisory Committee. He's held leadership positions in the Augusta Bar Association, the Augusta Young Lawyers Club, the Augusta Trial Lawyers Association, the Augusta Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Augusta and the Leadership Georgia Foundation.

In his time as student at Mercer, Hudson played on the tennis team, served as president of the Student Government Association and as cadet colonel of the Mercer ROTC and was the 1968 winner of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, which is given to the University's most outstanding senior.

Hudson followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, Charles A. Hudson, who graduated from the University in 1901.

About Mercer University:

Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University enrolls more than 8,300 students in 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies – on major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah and at three regional academic centers across the state. Mercer is affiliated with two teaching hospitals - Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. The University operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program. For more information, visit www.mercer.edu.

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