ETTRICK – The former president of Michigan State University and the owner of a Chesterfield County restaurant are among the new faces who will be on Virginia State University’s Board of Visitors come July 1.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office announced the appointments Friday afternoon. With them, Youngkin, a Republican, will have appointed or reappointed all but two of the 15 board members.
The new appointees are:
- M. Peter McPherson of Arlington, former president of Michigan State University;
- Verndell Robinson of Prince William County, a broker with Coldwell Banker; and
- Robert Thompson of Chesterfield, owner of several Eggs Up Grill franchises in the metro Richmond area.
The governor reappointed retired Virginia Tech communications professor Robert Denton Jr. and retired Gen. Dennis Via of McLean to the board. Denton was first appointed in 2022 to fill the unexpired term of the late Jay Stegmaier, while Via joined last year…