Gov. Glenn Youngkin fired businessman Bert Ellis from the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Wednesday and announced plans to appoint former state senator and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to replace him. “It is with sadness that I remove you as a member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors,” the governor […]
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The Rotunda at the University of Virginia. (Photo by Sarah Vogelsong/Virginia Mercury)
Gov. Glenn Youngkin fired businessman Bert Ellis from the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Wednesday and announced plans to appoint former state senator and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to replace him.
Bert Ellis (Courtesy of the University of Virginia)
“It is with sadness that I remove you as a member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors,” the governor wrote in a Wednesday letter to Ellis, who has a history of making controversial statements and whose 2022 appointment to the board was protested by UVA “faculty senate, student council and campus newspaper, the Cavalier Daily,” according to VPM News.
