Janine A. Davidson

Janine Davidson
President of Metropolitan State University of Denver
Assumed office
July 24, 2017
Preceded byStephen Jordan
United States Under Secretary of the Navy
In office
March 17, 2016 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byRobert O. Work
Succeeded byThomas Modly
Personal details
BornJanine Anne Davidson
(1966-04-24) April 24, 1966
EducationUniversity of Colorado, Boulder (BS)
University of South Carolina (MA, PhD)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Air Force
Years of service1988–1998
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Janine Anne Davidson (born April 24, 1966) is an American public servant who has served as the president of the Metropolitan State University of Denver since 2017. Davidson is known for expertise on topics such as military operations, U.S. foreign policy and national security policy as well as higher education leadership.

She served in the United States Air Force and was Under Secretary of the United States Navy from 2016 to 2017. She is the author of Lifting the Fog of Peace: How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War, a study of organizational learning and institutional change within the U.S. military.