Dr. Coleman is President Emerita of the University of Michigan, having served as President from 2002 to 2014, where she was named one of “10 Best College Presidents” by TIME Magazine and served as President of the University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Coleman served as an Independent Director of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) for over a decade from 2003 to 2016, chairing the Audit Committee, as a member of the Audit Committee and a member of the J&J Technology/Science/R&D Committee. Dr. Coleman served as an independent director of Meredith Corporation (formerly NYSE:MDP) from 1997 to 2016, as well as a director of Gaylord Container Corp. She also was a Professor of Biological Chemistry in the University of Michigan Medical School and a Professor of Chemistry in the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts. From 1995 to July 2002, Dr. Coleman served as President of the University of Iowa. Prior to 1995, Dr. Coleman served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of New Mexico, Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies & Research and Associate Provost and Dean of Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a member of the biochemistry faculty and an administrator at the Cancer Center of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. President Obama selected Dr. Coleman to help launch the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a national effort bringing together industry, universities and the federal government. In 2010, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke named Dr. Coleman co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine in 1997, Dr. Coleman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Coleman is a Trustee Emerita of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship program, and the Mayo Clinic Foundation, and is on the Board of Directors of The Kavli Foundation.
