Janice B. Walker

Janice B. Walker is an American mathematician who taught and served as an administrator at Xavier University in Cincinnati and Assistant to the President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer there.

Biography Janice Anita Brown Walker was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and raised in Florida.

Before earning her Ph.D., Walker held several University of Michigan positions in Ann Arbor. In 1982, Walker moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to become an assistant professor at Xavier University. In 1986, she was named associate professor, and beginning in 1992, she served as chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science department for seven years. In 1999, she became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and served for 17 years.

Walker was Xavier's vice president for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion for five years after which she rejoined the mathematics department before retiring from the university.

Walker retired from Xavier in 2022. She serves as a board member of Breakthrough Cincinnati and other community organizations. Walker, Janice Anita Brown. Closure and Expansions in Series of Complex Exponentials. University of Michigan, 1982.