*In this photo:* Board of Trustees Chair Leroy Tice shakes hands with James L. Collins after swearing him in as one of two new Board members. Dr. Janice E. Nevin also was sworn in as a new Trustee at that same June 20 regular meeting.

On Campus

Two new Board of Trustees members appointed

Saturday, June 22, 2024

The DSU Board of Trustees has appointed two new members of its governing body – James L. Collins, Microsoft General Manager, and Dr. Janice E. Nevin, President and CEO of ChristianaCare.

Trustees Collins and Nevin were sworn in during the Board’s June 20 regular quarterly meeting.

James L. Collins has served as the General Manager of Microsoft, a public sector industry, since September 2020, first in consulting services and later overseeing the company’s public sector industry activities. Under his leadership, a State and Local Government Industry Organization has been established to expand public sector business into the vertical areas of critical infrastructure and transportation, health and human services, public safety and justice, and public finance.

Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Collins served as Delaware’s Chief Information Officer from 2014 to 2020 under Governors Jack Markell and John Carney. Dr. Janice E. Nevin is sworn in for a six-year term as a member of the DSU Board of Trustees.

Mr. Collins has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Wesley College and a Master of Science in Managing Innovation and Information Technology from Champlain College in Vermont. He has also been a Henry Toll Fellow in the Council of State Governments.

Dr. Janice E. Nevin has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of ChristianaCare since 2014. Before becoming CEO, she served in an ascending number of positions at ChristianaCare from 2002-2014, including Vice President of Medical Affairs, Senior Vice President of its Wilmington Campus, Chief Academic Officer, Chief Medical Officer, and Chief Patient Safety Officer.

Before her years at ChristianaCare, Dr. Nevin served at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from 1987-1995, where she was the program director of its family medicine residency program for the last seven years.

Mr. Collins is completing the term of Harold Stafford, who resigned from the Board in June 2023. After completing that term – which expires Aug. 31, 2024 – Mr. Collins will begin the second term, which expires May 29, 2031.

Dr. Nevin is completing the term of Margie Lopez Waite, who resigned from the Board in January 2024.

After completing that term – which expires Nov. 15, 2024 – she will begin the second term, which expires Nov. 15, 2030.