Dr. Cynthia Warrick, c/o 1975

Dr. Cynthia Warrick served as the first female President for Stillman College, a Historically Black (HBCU) liberal arts college in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A pharmacist and health services research, Dr. Warrick was named one of the Ten Most Dominant HBCU Leaders of 2023 by the HBCU Campaign Fund. 

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Warrick served as the Interim President of Grambling State and South Carolina State Universities after advancing the faculty and administrative ranks at Howard University, the University of Texas, Texas Southern University, Florida A&M University, and Elizabeth City State University. 

Dr. Warrick's major accomplishments in her tenure at Stillman was grant funding for programs and infrastructure that exceeded $21 million, which includes a $7.9 million NIH biomedical research facility grant. In 2016, she founded the Society for Diversity in the Biomedical Sciences, to facilitate career pathways of underrepresented students into NIH-funded biomedical research and graduate programs; and to assist HBCU faculty with NIH-funded partnerships and grant applications.