Hodding Carter III//
Professor of Leadership & Public Policy
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Hodding Carter III became University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in January 2006. He came to that post after almost eight years as president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami. His previous professional career included 17 years as a newspaper journalist in Greenville, Mississippi; 17 years as an Emmy-winning television anchor and documentarian based in Washington and four years as assistant secretary of state of public affairs and Department spokesman under President Jimmy Carter. He was closely involved in civil right-related political work in Mississippi in the 1960s and 1970s and was co-chairman of the biracial delegation to the l968 Democratic National Convention that was seated in place of the all-white regular delegation. He has written two books, contributed to nine others and numerous magazines and newspapers.