A veteran of the Sixth Special Forces unit at Fort Bragg and a graduate of Yale Law School, Martin established his career in Charlotte as a member of the law firm Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell, and Hickman. In 1988 he began serving the University of North Carolina 16-campus system as its Secretary and later vice president for public affairs, where he became a respected advocate for higher education in North Carolina.
In recent years, he has been interim vice chancellor at UNC-Pembroke and N.C. Central University. He currently serves as counsel for the Trust for Public Land. Martin’s column “One on One” appears in publications across the state, including The Pilot, and his voice is a familiar one on issues and ideas that affect the lives of North Carolinians. He is also the host of the UNC-TV program, N.C. Bookwatch.
Martin, whose father, David Grier Martin, served as the 13th president of Davidson College from 1958 to 1968, previously received the college’s Alumni Service Award. In 2003, he will finish a second term as a member of the Davidson College Board of Trustees.
Davidson has a policy of need-blind admission and meeting the fully demonstrated need for admitted students. In the Class of 2007, 34 percent of the students receive financial aid, and 27 percent received either academic or athletic merit-based scholarship awards.
Davidson is a highly selective independent liberal arts college for 1,600 students. Since its establishment in 1837, the college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the country by “U.S. News and World Report” magazine. A national leader in faculty resources, the graduation rate of student athletes, and in alumni satisfaction as measured by annual giving, Davidson is engaged in “Let Learning Be Cherished,” a $250 million campaign in support of student financial assistance, academic resources, and community life.
