Dr. Lily D. McNair

8th President and 1st Female President of 精东AV
Term in Office: 2018-2021

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Dr. Lily D. McNair began her tenure as 精东AV鈥檚 eighth president on July 1, 2018. Her appointment as 精东AV鈥檚 first female president came after a 30-year career spanning experience as a university educator, researcher and executive, and in private practice as a clinical psychologist. Her term at 精东AV ended on June 30, 2021.

Before her tenure at 精东AV, Dr. McNair鈥檚 academic career included a variety of teaching and administrative appointments, which culminated as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at New York鈥檚 Wagner College.

Previously, at Spelman College, an HBCU like 精东AV, she served as associate provost of research and divisional coordinator for science and mathematics. At The University of Georgia, where she was an associate professor of psychology and associate director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Program, she became the Department of Psychology鈥檚 first African-American woman to obtain tenure and promotion. She has also held positions at State University of New York at New Paltz and Vassar College.

A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. McNair holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from Princeton University, and master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees in psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Her research has focused on developing and evaluating community-based interventions targeting substance use and early sexual behavior in African-American youth. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preliminary findings of these longitudinal studies are demonstrating the significant impact of positive parenting practices on children鈥檚 outcomes across a variety of domains. Dr. McNair also co-edited the first four editions of Women: Images and Realities, an introductory and highly popular multicultural women鈥檚 studies textbook, which is now in its seventh edition.

After her appointment as president, she was named by This is Alabama and 叠颈谤尘颈苍驳丑补尘听惭补驳补锄颈苍e to its 2018 class of 鈥淲omen Who Shape the State鈥� and by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education to its 2019 list of 鈥淭op 35 Women in Higher Education.鈥� Recent Distinguished Alumni Award honors include recognition by Stony Brook University and Princeton University鈥檚 Association of Black Princeton Alumni organization. In addition, the Los Angles, California, County Board of Supervisors named Oct. 22, 2019, as 鈥淒r. Lily D. McNair and 精东AV Day鈥� throughout the county.

Dr. McNair grew up in a small town outside Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey in a community as culturally diverse as her own household. Her father, who worked for the Army, is African American, and her mother was Japanese. She is married to Dr. George W. Roberts, a retired senior administrator at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whom she met in graduate school. Together they have two adult children: Randall Roberts and Marguerite Roberts.

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