 Linwood H. Rose

Linwood Howard Rose (born 1951) was the fifth president of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Rose held 11 other positions at JMU before being named acting president in the fall of 1997, chief executive in September 1998, and being formally inaugurated on September 17, 1999.He has also served as the Deputy Secretary of Education in Virginia and was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Infrastructure Advisory Committee in 2002.