Jay O. Rothman started his tenure because the ninth president of the College of Wisconsin System on June 1, 2022.
With 13 universities and campuses throughout the state, the Universities of Wisconsin are residence to world-class training, analysis, and outreach, serving roughly 164,400 college students and awarding practically 36,000 levels every year. President Rothman leads a statewide workforce of some 35,000 college, educational employees, and college employees. He’s additionally accountable for the UW system’s $6 billion annual finances, made up of state help, federal funding, tuition and charges, and personal presents. He experiences to the UW System Board of Regents.
Rothman beforehand served because the chairman and CEO of the legislation agency Foley & Lardner LLP. Based in Wisconsin in 1842, Foley has over 1,100 attorneys and roughly 1,000 skilled employees members. The agency ranks among the many high 50 legislation corporations within the nation primarily based on income and serves over 10,000 purchasers from places of work positioned in three worldwide cities and 22 U.S. cities, together with Milwaukee and Madison. Rothman was chairman and CEO of Foley & Lardner for 11 years and a member of the agency’s Administration Committee for 20 years. He joined Foley in 1986, changing into a companion in 1994.
As Foley’s chairman and CEO, Rothman was accountable for growing and executing the agency’s strategic plan in addition to overseeing the agency’s administrative features. These included authorized expertise recruitment, retention, and growth; human sources; accounting and finance; enterprise growth and advertising and marketing; amenities and procurement administration; authorized affairs and danger administration; data expertise and safety; public relations and communications; and variety, fairness, and inclusion. As a training lawyer, Rothman labored primarily within the areas of mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and company governance.
Rothman serves as a director of Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: QUAD) and Mayville Engineering Firm, Inc. (NYSE: MEC). His neighborhood involvement has included serving as a director of Junior Achievement of Wisconsin and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Affiliation of Commerce. He additionally beforehand served because the chairman and a member of the Board of Administrators of Youngsters’s Hospital & Well being System (now often known as Youngsters’s Wisconsin) and because the chairman and a member of the Board of Administrators of the Youngsters’s Hospital of Wisconsin Basis (now often known as Youngsters’s Wisconsin Basis).
Rothman earned a bachelor’s diploma from Marquette College and a legislation diploma from Harvard Regulation Faculty.
