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By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
A search committee has been named to find a new dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
 Karen Holbrook, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, has appointed Kathryn Costello, senior vice president for external affairs, as chair of the committee. The group includes faculty, staff and students from the Grady College and other UGA units and several professional journalists.
The committee will recommend a successor for J. Thomas Russell, who is retiring June 30 after 17 years as dean and 34 years on the college’s faculty.
Costello says there are no constraints on the committee’s national search to fill the position.
“We are seeking the best experience and leadership available, and we will look at candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds--people in academia as well as practitioners currently in one of the areas of journalism, advertising and public relations,” she says. “The Grady College is one of the top journalism schools in the nation, and our goal is to provide it with one of the best leaders in the country.”
Committee members are:
Alison Alexander, head of the telecommunications department; Debra Lynn Allen, Grady undergraduate; Dwight Brooks, telecommunications; Louis Castenell, dean, College of Education; George Daniels, Grady graduate student; Thomas Dowden of Cashiers, N.C., founder of Dowden Communications; Susan Gabriel, Grady business manager;
Robert Gatewood, Terry College of Business; Sharron Hannon, University Communications; Tom Johnson, chairman, CNN News Group; Dean Krugman, head of the advertising and public relations department; Kent Middleton, head of the journalism department; Barry Palevitz, biology;
William Gray Potter, director, UGA libraries; Condace Pressley, assistant program director, WSB Radio, Atlanta; Richard Riley, executive vice president of Sawyer Riley Compton; Scott Shamp, director, New Media Institute; Les Simpson, executive editor, Athens Daily News and Banner-Herald; Jay Smith of Atlanta, president of Cox Newspapers; and Richard Yarbrough, retired public relations vice president of BellSouth who was communications director of the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Costello says she hopes the committee can recommend finalists by the end of summer. Leonard Reid, associate dean of the Grady College, will serve as interim dean from July 1 until the new dean begins work.
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