Dr. Rosemary Gray was appointed Equity and Diversity Officer/Title VI Coordinator on July 11, 2011, at the University of Tennessee at Martin.  Dr. Gray is a recognized leader in equity and diversity strategies.  She has been consulted on diversity and human relations issues by city governments, public schools, colleges and universities, and national, state, global, and local organizations and has been an active member of many associations and conferences.  She has presented and served on advisory boards for local, regional, and national councils and conferences on cultural diversity, gender, health education, and human relations issues. 

Dr. Gray brings over twenty years of higher educational development, training, professional development, and social equity experience to her position.  First as a Freshman English and developmental reading and study skills instructor at the community college and university level, then as a college and university administrator for human resources, institutional research, multicultural affairs, student leadership development, equity and diversity, social equity, and gender equity, including the development and presentation of a senior seminar for the college of business at several universities on “Twenty-First Century Challenges in Human Resources”.  Dr. Gray has worked as a Director of Human Resources, Associate Dean of Campus Activities, an Assistant Director of Human Resources, a Social Equity Officer, an Equity and Diversity Officer, and a Vice President of Special Services and Equity, managing the overall development, implementation, coordination, communication, and monitoring of Affirmative Action Plans and Programs and diversity programs that supported university equal opportunity, equal employment opportunity, and university equal opportunity policies and programs for employees and students, as well as university compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.

Dr. Gray’s background on equity and diversity issues is extensive.  She has presented on diversity issues at conferences for Jacksonville (Florida) Community College, the University of Virginia, the National Association for Multicultural Education, the Tennessee Parks and Recreation, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Association of Women in Higher Education; and has served as a diversity consultant for the Johnson City Board of Education and the Johnson City City Government in Johnson City, Tennessee, and chaired the Mayor’s Leadership Council for Community and Race Relations in Lake Charles, Louisiana.  As a participant in Leadership Washington County (VA) and Leadership Lackawanna (PA), she has been a pioneer in equity and diversity leadership development, collaborating with community leaders for the initiation of an Executive Leadership Council within the Black community in a six county area in Northeastern Pennsylvania for the purpose of ensuring and supporting educational, economic, and political empowerment.

Dr. Gray is a graduate of Morristown College (Morristown, Tennessee) with an Associate of Arts degree, Liberal Arts; Emory and Henry College (Emory, Virginia) with a Bachelor of Arts degree, English; Catholic University (Washington, D.C.) with a Master of Arts degree, Education; and East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, Tennessee) with a Doctor of Education, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.  Dr. Gray’s continued involvement in leadership includes participation in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Board of Trustees for Morristown College and Knoxville College (Knoxville, Tennessee), Judson S. Hill Foundation Board (Morristown College), Diversity Education Institute for Higher Education Personnel (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas), American Association of Affirmative Action (Virginia), National Employment Law Institute Affirmative Action Briefing (Illinois), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Technical Assistance Seminars (Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania), Association of Higher Education and Disability (St. Louis, Missouri), Society for Human Resources Management (Pennsylvania and Virginia), Women’s Network (Scranton and Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania), the College and University Personnel Association (District of Columbia),   Southwest Virginia Multicultural Coalition Speaker’s Bureau (Roanoke, Virginia area), the Women’s Commission of Southwest Louisiana, chair for a Regional Council of the Louisiana Center for Women and Government sponsored by the University of Louisiana System, and was a National Diversity Council recipient of a 2010 Most Powerful and Influential Women award.

Dr. Gray has one son, William S. Bundy, II, who is a teacher for the Calcasieu Parish School Board in Lake Charles, Louisiana.