Janine A. Davidson
Janine Davidson | |
|---|---|
| President of Metropolitan State University of Denver | |
| Assumed office July 24, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen Jordan |
| United States Under Secretary of the Navy | |
| In office March 17, 2016 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Robert O. Work |
| Succeeded by | Thomas P. Dee (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Janine Anne Davidson April 24, 1966 Oxnard, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of Colorado, Boulder (BS) University of South Carolina (MA, PhD) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service | United States Air Force |
| Years of service | 1988–1998 |
Janine Anne Davidson (born April 24, 1966) is an American public servant who has served as the president of the Metropolitan State University of Denver since 2017. Davidson is known for expertise on topics such as military operations, U.S. foreign policy and national security policy as well as higher education leadership.
She served in the United States Air Force and was Under Secretary of the United States Navy from 2016 to 2017. She is the author of Lifting the Fog of Peace: How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War, a study of organizational learning and institutional change within the U.S. military.