Hampton President Is Sworn Into Office

HAMPTON

Recently Hampton University (HU) held the inaugural ceremony to install Lt. General (Ret.) Darrell K. Williams as its new leader. Pictured above, the new leader is sworn in as the 13th President of the HBCU with his wife, Myra Richardson Williams holding the Bible.

The new president has been on the job since arriving at HU on July 1, 2022. He is a Hampton alum and a retired Army veteran.

During the ceremony, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Congressman Bobby Scott, and a host of officials shared kind and encouraging words to congratulate Williams. The Hampton choir and orchestra graced attendees with songs.

Williams said during his inaugural address he wanted to create more opportunities for students and aims to give them the number one college experience in the country. He said coming back to Hampton University is a full-circle moment for him and his wife.

“My wife and I graduated from Hampton in 1983, and so to come back 40 years later which would’ve been this May, and to be back as the president, it feels surreal, but it feels like it was supposed to happen. We want to pour back into the students at Hampton in 2023 what we got in 1983,” Williams said. Williams mentioned, by April 15, the university will release its strategic plan to grow the university, and academics will always be the number one priority.

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