Brian Hemphill
Radford University President Brian Hemphill has been hired as Old Dominion University’s ninth president, ODU announced Friday. He will succeed John Broderick, the Norfolk university’s president of 13 years, who is retiring this year.
Hemphill, who has led Radford since 2016, will join ODU this summer, according to a news release Friday from the university. He will be ODU’s first Black president since the university’s founding in 1930 as part of William & Mary. It became an independent public institution in 1962.
“It is both an honor and privilege to be selected as the ninth president of Old Dominion University, a dynamic public research institution that has proudly served the Hampton Roads region and positively impacted the commonwealth of Virginia,” Hemphill said in a statement.
