Chancellor names Nagy executive assistant

Casey Nagy, executive assistant to the provost, has been appointed by Chancellor John Wiley as his executive assistant.

In his new role, Nagy will oversee the day-to-day operations of the chancellor’s office and serve as liaison with the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. He begins his new position Feb. 15.

An attorney, Nagy had served as Wiley’s executive assistant in the Office of the Provost since 1994. He previously served in UW–Madison’s Administrative Legal Services from 1991-94, where he was a team leader for the employment law section, specializing in administrative personnel issues. He also did extensive work on issues involving athletics, medicine and hospital administration.

“With his long record of service to the university in the Provost’s Office and Administrative Legal Services, Casey is well-positioned to take on this new challenge,” says Wiley. “I have full confidence in him.”

Nagy has served the university in a number of different ways during his employment on campus. He was deputy chair for “New Directions: The Reaccreditation Project,” the latest 10-year reaccreditation of the university by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

The university used the extensive self-study required as part of the reaccreditation as a basis for strategic planning, which resulted in the publication of “Targeting Tomorrow,” the university’s current vision for the future.

Nagy has also served on a host of important campus committees, including groups on violence on campus, student non-academic misconduct, human subjects in research, sexual harassment and gender equity.

In addition, he has functioned as a campus representative in UW–Madison’s national efforts to curb workplace abuses in the production of university-licensed apparel and other merchandise.

From 1984-1991 Nagy worked in private practice in the fields of maritime, civil rights and employment law. He has also served as municipal judge for the City of Evansville, Wis., and taught oral and written advocacy at the Seattle University School of Law.

Nagy is a graduate of Washington State University, Seattle University School of Law and UW–Madison, where he earned a master’s in anthropology. He belongs to the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi academic societies.

He succeeds Henry S. Lufler Jr., executive assistant to former Chancellor David Ward. Lufler returns to the School of Education, where he serves as associate dean. He is also managing director of the Wisconsin Center for Advancement of Postsecondary Education, or WISCAPE.

Nagy’s salary for the new position has not been finalized.