Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is poised to become the next chancellor of the University System of Georgia.
The system’s Board of Regents voted Tuesday to name the Republican from Houston County the sole finalist to lead Georgia’s 26 public colleges and universities.
Perdue was Georgia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, serving from 2003 until 2011. Then-President Donald Trump tapped Perdue, an agribusiness owner, to serve as Secretary of Agriculture in 2017, and he became one of the few Cabinet secretaries to remain in his post throughout Trump’s four-year term.
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