Charles
M. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair
in Corporate Governance and the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center
for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He is also "Of
Counsel" to the law firm of Holland & Knight. He formerly served as a
Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law in St. Petersburg,
Florida from 1990 until 2001. His fields of expertise include
corporations, securities regulation and corporate governance. He is a
graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School,
and has served as a law clerk to Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III and
Elbert P. Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
and Eleventh Circuits. He has been a Visiting Professor at the
University of Illinois College of Law, the Cornell Law School, and the
University of Maryland School of Law, and is a Salvatori Fellow at the
Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a member of the American Law
Institute. Professor Elson has written extensively on the subject of
boards of directors. He is a frequent contributor on corporate
governance issues to various scholarly and popular publications. He
served on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Commissions
on Director Compensation, Director Professionalism, CEO Succession,
Audit Committees, Strategic Planning and Director Evaluation, was a
member of its Best Practices Council on Coping With Fraud and Other
Illegal Activity, and presently serves on that organization’s Advisory
Council. He is Vice Chairman of the ABA Business Law Section’s
Committee on Corporate Governance and was a member of its Committee on
Corporate Laws. Additionally, Professor Elson served as an adviser and
consultant to Towers Perrin, the international human resource management
consultants, a director of Circon Corporation, a medical products maker
and Sunbeam Corporation, the consumer products manufacturer, Nuevo
Energy Company, an independent oil and natural gas producer, the
Investor Responsibility Research Center, a non-profit corporate
governance research organization, Alderwoods Group, an international
death care services provider, AutoZone, Inc., the national automobile
parts retailer, and is presently a member of the Board of Directors of
HealthSouth Corporation, a healthcare services provider.
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