Seventy-year old CEO announces retirement in a few months.
Business promotes second-in-command to replace retiring CEO.
Yawn.
Maybe not, in Nina King’s case. The 42-year-old Tampa native will become one of only three Black women to take over the AD spot, joining Carla Williams at Virginia and Candace Storey Lee at Vanderbilt.
King will officially take the reins on September1 but the announcement was made earlier this week.
King came to Duke in 2008 and has garnered consistent praise, while undertaking a variety of tasks. She rose to the rank of senior deputy AD for administration/legal affairs and chief of staff at Duke.