OCTOBER 6, 2023 — After a robust national search, UTSA has selected Jason King as the university’s new associate vice president of strategic risk management and chief legal officer. He will start at UTSA on October 16.
In this newly expanded role, King will provide leadership over UTSA’s enterprise risk management. He will oversee the offices of Legal Affairs and Institutional Compliance & Risk Services, as well as play an evolving role with Auditing and Consulting Services. As UTSA continues moving toward its bold destinations, King will strategically manage institutional risk while providing comprehensive legal advice to university leadership.
King will also lead an umbrella of teams under the President’s Office to ensure consistency with the university’s mission and serve the best interests of UTSA, including its duties to follow the law and meet its obligations to the public, governments and third parties. He will work alongside university leadership to protect and promote integrity and ethical conduct, practice preventive law and enable stakeholders to accomplish institutional objectives.
King will take over the role at UTSA after the departure of Juan “Jay” Rosselló, who became vice president for legal affairs and general counsel at the University of Maryland.
Most recently, King served as the chief compliance and ethics officer for the University of Texas System Administration, where he re-established the Office of Systemwide Compliance, which coordinates hundreds of compliance professionals across UT System institutions, mitigates billions of dollars per year in risk, and protects students, faculty and staff from harm.
He also provided strategic counsel to executive leadership to create practical solutions to the legal, compliance and ethics concerns of UT institutions in all major academic and health-related risk areas. Furthermore, he guided legislative strategy on topics impacting higher education and provided counsel on numerous matters involving collegiate athletics including NCAA compliance, contracts and more.
“Jason’s extensive experience in higher education, especially at UT System, positions him well to lead our university as a thoughtful advisor in enterprise risk management to allow UTSA to advance our strategic destinations,” said UTSA President Taylor Eighmy. “Jason’s leadership will be critical to advancing our university as well as upholding the tenets of our core values. I look forward to the opportunity to work with and learn from him.”
Prior to UT System, King worked as an associate for Akers and Boulware-Wells, LLP and served as assistant general counsel for the Texas Ethics Commission. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from The University of Nebraska and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Baylor University. Jason is a licensed attorney in the State of Texas and is a certified compliance and ethics professional.
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