for Disease Control released reports showing that drug overdose deaths declined nationally in 2018 for the first time since 1999 due to improved access to drug addiction treatment and to overdose emergency medical services, while the following month, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released estimates showing that declines in the drug overdose death rate within Massachusetts slowed from 2018 to 2019. NCAA President On December 15, 2022, the NCAA announced that Baker had been named the sixth president of the NCAA, effective March 2023. He will replace Mark Emmert, who announced his intent to retire. Emmert will serve as a consultant to the organization during the first few months of Baker's tenure before stepping aside permanently in June 2023. Personal life Baker married Lauren Cardy Schadt, another Kellogg alumnus, in 1987. Schadt had been working as an assistant account executive at a New York advertising agency. She is the daughter of James P. Schadt, the former CEO of Reader's Digest and Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages. They live in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with their three children. Their personal residence is currently in Swampscott. Baker has weighed in on popular culture issues from time to time: in 2015, Boston magazine wrote a piece on his music preferences, stating that Baker "is shamelessly Top 40 in his tastes, stuck mostly in the classic rock that dominated radio of his teens and twenties, aka the 1970s and '80s" but holding "a deep knowledge and appreciation for the Ramones, Green Day, and the Dropkick Murphys." That same year, Baker, a lifelong Star Wars fan, admitted to not being a fan of the prequels nor the sequels to the original trilogy. In a 2022 interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, he credited David Bowie with predicting the negative role that Internet-based social media would have on politics. On June 22, 2018, Baker's son Andrew "AJ" Baker was accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a JetBlue flight. The next week, Baker responded to questions about the incident and said his son would fully cooperate with the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office's independent review of the matter. Electoral history Governor of Massachusetts References External links |- |- |- 1956 births 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century American politicians American corporate directors American health care chief executives American nonprofit chief executives American people of English descent Businesspeople from Massachusetts Candidates in the 2010 United States elections Harvard College alumni