Josh Whitman
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West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.
| Illinois Fighting Illini | |
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| Position: | Athletic director |
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| Born: | August 5, 1978 West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight: | 245 lb (111 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | West Lafayette (IN) Harrison |
| College: | Illinois |
| NFL draft: | 2001: undrafted |
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Joshua Harmon Whitman (born August 5, 1978) is an American university administrator, a lawyer, and a former professional football player. He is currently the athletic director at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Whitman served as the athletic director at University of Wisconsin–La Crosse from 2011 to 2014, and Washington University in St. Louis from 2014 to 2016.[2]
Whitman graduated from Harrison High School in West Lafayette, Indiana in 1997.[3] He played tight end at Illinois from 1997 to 2000 under head coach Ron Turner.[4] Whitman graduated from Illinois in 2001 as a bronze tablet scholar with his B.S degree in finance. In 2004, he retired from the NFL and enrolled in the University of Illinois College of Law.[5] As a law student, Whitman spent time as a law clerk for Michael P. McCuskey and Michael Stephen Kanne, both of whom are United States federal judges.[5] From 2005 to 2008 Whitman also worked in the Illinois athletic department as a special assistant to athletic director Ron Guenther.[4] After receiving his J.D. degree summa cum laude in 2008, Whitman took a job in Washington D.C. working as an attorney for Covington & Burling, which serves as outside legal counsel for the NFL.[5]