said she had instructed her staff not to make the incident an issue. Cox's campaign manager, Morton Brilliant, resigned shortly after the incident was made public. Bill Shipp reported in the Gwinnett Daily Post that Taylor's aides had known for months about the edits, which they easily traced to Cox's campaign. Taylor held back on publicizing the news until he could use it to upstage a speech by Cox that her staff called a "major policy address". The resulting media coverage gave much wider publicity to the problems of Taylor's son than the changes Brilliant made to Wikipedia. Post-Gubernatorial bid After her unsuccessful gubernatorial run, Cox served a one-semester appointment as the Carl E. Sanders Political Leadership Scholar at the University of Georgia School of Law. As the Carl Sanders Scholar, she taught two courses, Election Law and Law and Politics, to second and third year law students. The Carl E. Sanders Chair was established in 2002 by a $1 million gift to the UGA Law School by former Georgia governor and Chairman Emeritus of Atlanta-based law firm Troutman Sanders LLP (now merged with the Philadelphia-based Pepper Hamilton LLP to form Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP). The gift resulted from Sanders' longstanding commitment to see the law school at the University of Georgia "be one of such excellence that no citizen of Georgia need ever leave the state because a superior legal education is afforded elsewhere.". On May 12, 2007, Cox gave the commencement address to the graduating class of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law, her law school alma mater. During the ceremony, she was awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Laws. From 2007 through 2017, she was the 21st President of Young Harris College in Young Harris, GA. In 2017 she became the Dean of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in Macon, GA, a position she held until being elected President of Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA, by the state university system's Board of Regents. She assumed the presidency of Georgia College on October 1, 2021. References External links Charles H. Wesley Education Foundation v. Cathy Cox Cathy Cox at OurCampaigns.com The Raw Story – Documents show Georgia's Secretary of State knew of Diebold patch |- |- |- 1958 births Living people Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives Mercer University alumni Secretaries of State of