Melva K. Wallace

Melva K. Wallace ( Turner) is an American academic administrator specialized in emotional intelligence development. She has served as the seventh president and chief executive officer of Huston–Tillotson University since 2022.

Life Wallace earned a B.A. (1999) in mass communication and a M.A. (2001) in public administration from Grambling State University. She received a Ph.D. in urban higher education at Jackson State University in 2008. She was also the first chief of staff to manage five campuses. She was a senior director of programming for the Clinton Presidential Center. Succeeding interim president Archibald W. Vanderpuye, Wallace is its second female president.