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Virginia Makes Carla Williams First Female African-American AD At Power Five School

Georgia Deputy AD Carla Williams yesterday was named Virginia AD, becoming the "first female African American AD" at a Power Five conference school and the "fifth active female AD at that level," according to David Hall of the Norfolk VIRGINIAN-PILOT. Williams will succeed the retiring Craig Littlepage, who has served as UVA AD for the past 16 years. Williams has "agreed to a five-year contract with a base annual salary of $550,000, plus incentives." She has been an athletics administrator at UGA for the past 13 years, and took on the Deputy AD role in '15, where she has been "responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department" and its $127M budget. She served as administrator for UGA football and women's basketball and had "supervisory responsibility for academic support services, business operations, compliance, event management, external operations, facilities and new construction, human resources, sports facilitators (21 sports and 15 head coaches), sports medicine, strength and conditioning, student services and ticketing" (Norfolk VIRGINIAN-PILOT, 10/23). In Virginia, David Teel noted Korn Ferry assisted in UVA's AD search, and following interviews Sept. 24 in N.Y., an eight-member committee chaired by outgoing UVA President Teresa Sullivan "identified multiple finalists." Littlepage was the first African-AmericanAD in ACC history when hired in '01. Williams will be the first UVA AD since Dick Schultz ('81-87) "without deep ties to the school" (Hampton Roads DAILY PRESS, 10/22). In DC, Gene Wang noted Williams at UGA "had a hand in virtually all aspects of managing the athletic department." Before joining UGA in '04, she was Vanderbilt Associate AD, where she "oversaw 11 men's and women's sports" (WASHINGTON POST, 10/22).

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