Wright L. Lassiter, Jr.

Wright L. Lassiter, Jr. was named Chancellor of the seven-college Dallas County Community College District in May 2006. Prior to that, he served for twenty years as the President of El Centro College of the Dallas County Community College District.

Dr. Lassiter previously served as President of Bishop College in Dallas, President of Schenectady County Community College in New York, Vice President of Finance and Management at Morgan State University in Baltimore, and Business Manager of Tuskegee University of Alabama.

He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the African American Museum, Immediate Past Board Chair and Senior Director of the Urban League of Greater Dallas and North Texas, Inc., and serves on several other boards that include the State Fair of Texas, the YMCA Foundation, the Dallas Baptist University Foundation, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Foundation. He was nominated by the President and confirmed by the U. S. Senate to serve as a member of the National Advisory Council to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Lassiter is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Management at Dallas Baptist University and holds an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from that institution. He holds a B.S. degree from Alcorn State University, an MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington, and an Ed.D. from Auburn University.

In 1995, the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University -- Bloomington elected Dr. Lassiter to the Indiana University Academy of Alumni Fellows. He served a six-year term on the Board of Advisors of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University.

He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, the most recent being his election in the inaugural class of inductees into the African American Educators Hall of Fame in Dallas, Texas. The Hall of Fame is a joint project of the African American Museum and the National Association of Black School Educators Archives and History Program.

June 2006