The MEAC has announced that Sonja O. Stills has been promoted to the position of Assistant Commissioner for Administration & Compliance. 

“I am pleased to announce that Ms. Sonja Stills has been promoted to the position of Assistant Commissioner for Administration & Compliance,” said Dennis Thomas, MEAC Commissioner.  “Ms. Stills has done a fine job since joining the MEAC and I look forward to her continued success in helping to move the conference forward.”

As the Assistant Commissioner for Administration & Compliance, Stills will work closely with Commissioner Thomas to ensure the member institutions are being serviced efficiently and appropriately.  She enters her seventh year with the MEAC, having joined the conference in 2002 and previously served as the Executive Assistant to the Commissioner and Director of Compliance. 

Stills currently serves as the liaison to the MEAC Senior Woman Administrators, Executive Committee, Membership Committee and the Constitution & Bylaws Committee.  She also coordinates the various conference ancillary events and is the coordinator for the MEAC Cheerleading Championship.  She also serves on the Policy Committee for the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association and the Legislative Council under the new NCAA Governance Structure.

Raised in Newport News, Va., Stills is a proud military brat and begin her career in athletics as the Coordinator of Academic Support and Senior Woman Administrator at Hampton University in 1998.  She held both positions until joining the MEAC.  Before athletics, she served as the Assistant to the Dean of Women at Hampton (1996-98). 

Stills received her bachelor’s degree in Human Services Counseling from Old Dominion University in 1993 and her master’s degree in Counseling-College Student Work Personnel from Hampton in 1996.  She is a 2002 graduate of the Sports management Institute and a 2008 graduate of the NACWAA/HERS Institute for Administrative Advancement.

Stills is the daughter of retired Army Sgt. Maj. Rufus and Shirley Stills with one sister, Natasha.  She currently resides in Norfolk, Va.