King University announces 24th president
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — W. Andrew Tooley, Ph.D, will be the 24th President of King University, the university announced on Tuesday.
Tooley currently serves as the associate vice president for presidential initiatives at Belmont University in Nashville.
He will succeed Alexander Whitaker, who has been King University’s president since 2016.
“I am thrilled and honored to join King University as its twenty-fourth president,” Tooley said in a news release. “As I have met with community members and constituents of King, I have been consistently impressed by the institution’s rich history and the many expressions of its ongoing commitments to the Christian faith and academic excellence in the liberal arts and graduate professions. My family and I are excited to join faculty, staff, and students to advance King’s legacy in service of God’s redemptive work in the world.”
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Tooley has served as a faculty member and been in executive leadership roles throughout his 20-year career in higher education, King University reports.
At Belmont, Tooley contributed to the development and implementation of one of the largest comprehensive fundraising campaigns in the university’s history, according to King University.
Tooley earned his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, a master’s in divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois and a doctorate in history from the University of Stirling, Scotland.
He will begin his tenure as president on Aug. 1.
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