Student Regents
There are currently two Student Regents that serve on the Arizona Board of Regents to make sure that students’ voices are heard on important issues. Student Regents serve two-year terms; they spend their first year learning about the position in a non-voting capacity, and become the voting Student Regent in the second year of their term. Ross Meyer is the current voting Student Regent and Jennifer Ginther is the current non-voting Student Regent.
Ross Meyer
Ross Meyer is a third year law student at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. In addition to his summer clerkship, he is a Research Assistant at the College of Law and also works with an Arizona non-profit, Defenders of Children, providing legal assistance to victims of child abuse. As an undergraduate, Meyer was Vice-Chair for the Arizona Students’ Association, as well as President of Undergraduate Student Government, where he aided in adoption of a unified statewide plan for tuition. He will serve as the voting Student Regent through June 2010.
Jennifer Ginther
Jennifer Ginther is currently pursuing a PhD in Biology at Northern Arizona University, where her research focuses on the evolution, ecology, and epidemiology of Burholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis. While pursuing her advanced degrees, Jennifer worked with the Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Resource established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and with Booz Allen Hamilton to support the Department of Homeland Security. Her appointment to the Arizona Board of Regents is effective through June 2011.