NFF National Scholar-Athletes
Statistically the greatest quarterback in Morehouse College history, Jimmie Davis Jr. holds school records for career passing yards (5,662), single-game touchdown passes (5), single-season touchdown passes (16) and career touchdown passes (47). Equally talented in the classroom, he holds bachelor’s degrees in math and physics from Morehouse and in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. Davis also earned master’s degrees in applied mathematics from Georgia Tech and in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. After earning his doctorate in electrical engineering, he joined the Bedford, Mass., campus of The MITRE Corporation, a non-profit corporation that runs six federally funded research and development centers and provides long-term systems engineering and IT support to its government sponsors. Davis currently serves as a project lead and a principal engineer. In 2007, he was named Black Engineer of the Year for Community Service and he was named 2025 Black Engineer of the Year for Career Achievement. Davis has served on the board of Space Florida, Florida’s aerospace economic development organization, the Challenger Learning Center Tallahassee, and led STEM Florida, Florida's STEM workforce development organization.
