H. Justin Davidson

Who was H. Justin Davidson?

Harvey Justin Davidson was an American educator, the sixth Dean of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and Dean of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. Davidson was only thirty-eight years old when appointed the sixth dean of Johnson Graduate School of Management and served from 1968 to 1979. He was the first not to be an academic. Davidson served as Dean of the Fisher College of Business from 1979-1989. He died in Columbus, Ohio on October 28, 1999.

Davidson was married to Shirlee Ploeger Davidson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both were graduates of Carnegie Mellon University. They had four children, Charles Justin Davidson of Philadelphia, John Clinton Davidson of San Francisco, James Christopher Davidson of Washington, DC and Jennifer Davidson Jaffe of Traverse City.