Governor Kaine Appoints New NSU Board of Visitors Members

 

Norfolk, Va.—Governor Timothy Kaine has appointed Peter George Decker, Jr., an attorney at the law firm of Decker, Cardon, Thomas, Weintraub & Neskis  to the Norfolk State University Board of Visitors .  He will serve an unexpired term beginning July 1, 2008 and ending June 30, 2009.  He succeeds Renitalynette Anderson. 

A native of Norfolk, Decker has practiced law in the Hampton Roads community for more than 45 years.   He has served on numerous boards and committees on the local, regional and national levels.  For more than 35 years, Decker has been a member of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Board of Governors and Directors and is a former national executive vice president in charge of fundraising for St. Jude Hospital.   

 Decker also served as chairman of the Virginia State Board of Corrections for seven years and served on the Virginia State Board of Education for four years.  He recently completed a 10-year term as chairman of Nauticus, and is presently the chairman of the Norfolk International Airport Authority. 

Kaine also reappointed Willie L. Brown of Chesapeake and Howard Paul Kern of Virginia Beach.  Both board members will serve a four-year term that ends June 30, 2012.