Erroll Davis
{{short description|American politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2013}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Erroll B. Davis
| state_house = Pennsylvania
| district = 24th
| term_start = January 5, 1971
| term_end = November 30, 1972
| predecessor = Theodore Johnson
| successor = Joseph Rhodes Jr.
| constituency =
| birth_date ={{birth date and age|1944|8|5}}{{cite book|title=Contemporary Black biography|author=Thomson Gale|date=2007|volume=57|publisher=Gale Research Inc.|isbn=9780787679293|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4u11AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-02-27}}
| birth_place = Pittsburgh, PA
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| party = Democratic
| alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon University
| occupation =
| spouse = Elaine Davis
| children =
| residence = Atlanta, GA
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Erroll Brown Davis Jr. (born August 5, 1944) is an American administrator and businessman.
Career
= Business career =
Erroll earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1965 and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago in 1967.
Previously, Davis served as the superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools school district in Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as the chancellor of the University System of Georgia, where he was responsible for the state's 35 public colleges and universities. He has also served as the chairman of the board at Alliant Energy Corporation and president and CEO of WPL Holdings, and chairman of the Carnegie Mellon University board of trustees.
= Political career =
Davis is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.{{cite web | last = Cox | first = Harold | title = House Members D | publisher = Wilkes University | work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| date = | url =http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/D.html}}
From 1998 to 2010, he was a non-executive director of multinational oil company BP plc.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
In July 2011, Davis was appointed as APS's interim superintendent, to serve the position until June 30, 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://patch.com/georgia/cascade/meet-aps-interim-superintendent-erroll-b-davis-jr|title=Meet APS Interim Superintendent Erroll B. Davis, Jr.|last=Poe|first=Janita|date=2011-07-08|website=Patch|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-11}}
Davis currently serves as a member of the Board of Curators for the Georgia Historical Society. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for leadership in the research and development of renewable resources integration with the grid, and public education. In 2024, he was elected Chair of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Category:Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Category:Chancellors of the Georgia Board of Regents
Category:PPG Industries people
Category:American chief executives of education-related organizations
Category:American chairpersons of corporations
Category:20th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly