CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors continues to press on with business as usual – despite objections from Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger – and will appoint John F. Harris to the UVA Health System Board. Harris was among the appointments by former Gov. Glenn Youngkin to the BOV who were rejected by the Virginia Senate Privileges and Elections Committee in June.

The Board, which currently has five vacancies, has called a special meeting for Tuesday morning to make the appointment.

Harris holds a bachelor’s in commerce from UVA and the Charlottesville-area resident is a private investor who was a former CFO and chief advisor for The Carlyle Group, the global investment firm where Youngkin worked for 25 years before his retirement in 2020.

Harris has served on boards of the UVA Alumni Association, the Jefferson Trust, Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia, Virginia Film Festival, and Charlottesville Tom Sox, according to a bio UVA compiled when he was appointed but not confirmed by the General Assembly for the Board of Visitors, noted

Gov. Youngkin appointed him along with James Donovan of Upperville, Eugene Lockhart of Palm Beach, FL, and Calvert Saunders Moore of Locust Valley, NY in June only for the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee to deny the four confirmations.

That was a few weeks after the same committee denied the appointment of former state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.