Ruth Austin Knox

Ruth Austin Knox

Ruth Austin Knox is the president of Wesleyan College, located in Macon, Georgia. She was installed as Wesleyan's twenty-fourth president in 2003. A 1975 graduate, she is Wesleyan's first alumna president and its second woman president.

Before becoming president, Knox was a lawyer in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a 1978 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Order of the Coif. From 1985-1988, she was president of the Wesleyan Alumnae Association. She chaired the Alumnae Campaign to fund teaching chairs for the College from 1990-1993, and became a member of the Board of Trustees in 1993. Knox became chairman in 1994, and served in that position until she was appointed acting president in May 2002. [ [http://www.wesleyancollege.edu/About/WesleyansPresident/tabid/77/Default.aspx About Wesleyan's President] ]

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