Anthony R. Foxx Named Omicron Delta Kappa's 2023 Laurel Crowned Circle Award Winner

Honored For a Life of Leadership

by Jennifer L. Waller, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Omicron Delta Kappa

Lexington, Va. (01/31/2024) — The Omicron Delta Kappa Society and Educational Foundation Board of Trustees have presented former Secretary of Transportation Anthony R. Foxx (Davidson College, 2006) as the 2023 recipient of the Laurel Crowned Circle Award.
First presented in 1980, the Laurel Crowned Circle Award is the highest individual honor awarded by Omicron Delta Kappa. Recipients are exceptional leaders in their respective fields or noted for their service in advancing leadership development. Award winners also demonstrate the highest ideals of the Society: scholarship, service, integrity, character, and fellowship.

The award was presented on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, in a ceremony hosted by Davidson College.

Foxx currently serves as the Emma Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at Harvard College John F. Kennedy School of Government. On July 1, 2024, Foxx will become the co-director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership.
Previously, Foxx served as the 17th Secretary of Transportation (2013-2017). He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a 100-0 vote before serving at the U.S. Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Investments, the centerpiece of his administration.

Foxx has a long and distinguished career in public service. He has been a vocal advocate for social justice, using his platform to address systemic injustices. He exemplifies the qualities of leadership, collaboration, and service throughout his life and work that make him an
exceptional Omicron Delta Kappa Laurel Crowned Circle Award recipient.

Foxx earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Davidson University and his Juris Doctor from New York University. He was Davidson College's first African American student body president and was also a member of the Honor Council, Student Conduct Council, Project
Life, and the Union Board.

Past recipients of the Laurel Crowned Circle Award include business leaders, scholars, heads of large nonprofit organizations, journalists, academic administrators, and philanthropists, including former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, acclaimed author James MacGregor Burns, President of the United Negro College Fund Michael Lomax, former Congresswoman Donna Shalala, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a host of university presidents and philanthropists.

Omicron Delta Kappa Society, the National Leadership Honor Society, was founded at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., on Dec. 3, 1914. The Society seeks to recognize and advance leadership. The headquarters are located in Lexington, Va.

Contact
Jennifer L. Waller, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer, Omicron Delta Kappa, (540) 458-5340, jennifer@odk.org

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