Primary Job Title Director Primary Organization 
University of Delaware
Location Newark, Delaware, United States Regions Greater Philadelphia Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
Charles M. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance and the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He is also "Of Counsel" to the law firm of Holland & Knight.
He formerly served as a Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law from 1990
until 2001. His fields of expertise include corporations, securities regulation and corporate governance. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School, and has served as a law clerk to Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III and Elbert P. Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits.
Professor Elson served on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Commissions on Director Compensation, Director Professionalism, CEO Succession, Audit Committees, Strategic Planning, Director Evaluation, Risk Governance, Effective Lead Director and Board Diversity and was a member of its Best Practices Council on Coping With Fraud and Other Illegal Activity. He served as well on that organization’s Advisory Council. He is Vice Chairman of the ABA Business Law Section’s Committee on Corporate Governance and was a member of its Committee on Corporate Laws.
Additionally, Professor Elson served as an adviser and consultant to Towers Perrin and as a director of Circon Corporation, Sunbeam Corporation, Nuevo Energy Company, the Investor Responsibility Research Center, Alderwoods Group and AutoZone, Inc.
He is presently a member of the Board of Directors of HealthSouth Corporation. He has served as trustee of the Big Apple Circus, Talledega College, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and the Delaware Museum of Natural History. He is presently a trustee of the Hagley Museum and Library, the Delaware Art Museum and the Museum of American Finance.
