BATON ROUGE (AP) — A search committee has whittled from six to three a list of candidates to succeed Ed Jackson as chancellor of Southern University.

The finalists are: Ray Belton, chancellor of Southern University at Shreveport; Kofi Lomotey, Fisk University executive vice president and provost in Tennessee; and Napoleon Moses, Alcorn State University vice president for academic affairs in Mississippi.

The Southern Board of Supervisors will make the final choice. It has a meeting scheduled May 23.

Jackson resigned last year.