Linda S. Greene is the Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (VC EDI) at the University of California, San Diego. VC Greene joined the UC San Diego team in January, 2013 and will lead the development of a diversity strategic plan for the university. As the former Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, VC Greene has extensive leadership experience with a proven record of success in areas relating to equity, diversity and inclusion. She led a strategic hiring initiative to increase the number of women in science and engineering, and minority faculty in general, and to promote new areas of interdisciplinary scholarship and curricular offerings. She also managed professional development and retention initiatives and developed policies to advance gender equity.
Following graduation from the University of California at Berkeley Law School in 1974, VC Greene began her career as a civil rights attorney on the staff of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City. There she litigated employment discrimination and housing discrimination class actions. She was also involved in capital punishment litigation. She began law teaching in 1978, first at Assistant Professor at Temple University and later a tenured Associate Professor at University of Oregon. VC Greene has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown law schools and also has taught abroad in Germany, Ghana, and Japan.
From 1986 to 1989, VC Greene was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee where she specialized in matters involving judicial confirmation, federal courts and constitutional law. She provided legal advice in connection with the nomination and confirmation of federal court judges by the U.S. Senate, including consideration of five Supreme Court nominees. During a leave of absence from this position in 1988, she was a senior advisor to the Jackson and Dukakis Democratic Presidential Campaigns.
Outside of the University, VC Greene has lead efforts to recruit minorities and women into academia through, among other things, serving as President of the Society of American Law Teachers and as Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. She is also involved in promoting equal opportunity in sports and athletics. VC Greene is a co-founder of the Black Women in Sport Foundation and has also lead efforts to diversify coaching and administrative ranks in intercollegiate athletics. For twelve years she was a leader in the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), where she chaired the USOC Legislation Committee, was vice chair of the USOC Audit Committee and a co-author of the USOC diversity policies. She is also an avid supporter of the arts. She served for six years as a Board member of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and was also a member of its Permanent Collection Committee. VC Greene is a public speaker on many topics as well as a political and legal analyst for print, radio, and television. In Wisconsin, she is well known for her hundreds of appearances over a ten year period on Weekend, Wisconsin Public Television’s news and public affairs show.
Carl is a California native, growing up in the northern California town of Walnut Grove, founded by his great, great grandfather in 1850. He is a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara and has been a member of Rotary for over 15 years. Carl is a past president of the Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary Club and was named its Rotarian of the Year in 2009. He has served District 5340 as an Assistant Governor, District Membership Chair and Chief of Staff for Governor Dave Breeding.
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