Janine Davis

Mrs. Janine Davis is Caltech's administrator of (HRA), the department which enforces political correctness at the school, and first appeared in "The Egg Salad Equivalency".

Before the Show
Before Mrs. Davis made an appearance on the show, she constantly had to put up with the Caltech faculty and staff sending Howard Wolowitz to her because of his inappropriate sexual innuendo-laced behavior. The visits occurred every other day, up to the point where they're both on a first name basis. This eventually stopped when Leonard and Penny introduced him to Bernadette.

Season 6
In "The Egg Salad Equivalency" (S06E12), after Sheldon's assistant Alex Jensen files a  against Sheldon, Sheldon reports to the  with his usual  as Janine Davis looks  sitting at her. She s and greets him and tells him about Alex's complaint. Sheldon doesn't see a since she has a front row  as he makes ,  is in his  and he led his assistant away from a life of  by showing her  of diseased s. After hearing this, Mrs. Davis nods her head, then calls her  and tells her to cancel her next , wisely anticipating that the case with Sheldon "is gonna take a while". The administrator tells Sheldon that he had said things that he shouldn't say in the e like calling Alex a to her sexual desires and comparing her to an. She doesn't know what the egg salad comment means and she just goes with her s that that can't be said to another. Sheldon replies that he sees the, adding that he was not trying to single her out; he said that all are s to their desires. "Even you. You’re a slave," he says to the woman. She gives him a look of incredulous disbelief. Sheldon continues that during certain points of her ... The HRA, getting, tells him to shut up. Sheldon is feeling  and throws Howard, Raj, and Leonard under the in an attempt to direct her  away from him. He explains, "Dr. Hofstadter, he was bragging about his to anyone who would listen. You know, and Howard Wolowitz, he spent two  using  resources building a six-ed sex . Oh, and at the office, I heard Rajesh Koothrappali refer to you several times as ." Each of his friends receives a to report to Human Resources. They are sitting outside the HRA's office as Raj is adding to his  in order to speak to her. Howard points out that in years past he and the HRA are on a first-name basis. Sheldon shows up to assist his s and announces that he is filing a complaint against her because the she used during his  made him uncomfortable. She then has all four of them come into the office.

In "The Tenure Turbulence", she shows up again as a of the   and finds all the potential s trying to get in her good graces, at one point causing her to exclaim "Oh God, they're everywhere!"; Sheldon tries to give her s, which are too racist for her, Raj sends her a video explaining himself, and Leonard and Kripke go to the  and work out next to her. Though, Leonard has an right after that and Kripke replaces him.

Season 7


In "The Hofstadter Insufficiency", Raj goes to a to finally try and meet  and runs into the recently  Janine Davis. Raj mentions that he has recently read an on  among s. She just nods and says OK. Raj adds that, "So if the fact that your left and your husband makes you feel un, just remember penguins get cheated on and they’re still adorable". She then just walks away, at which Howard remarks to Raj, "You know, it was better when you couldn't talk to women." Later, Raj approaches Ms. Davis and offers a rough. They sit down and have an conversation as friends, something new for Raj. She does ask if he is hitting on her and Raj denies it. They seem to depart as friends.

Season 8
Sheldon has a meeting with Janine Davis of Human Resources in "The Junior Professor Solution". Sheldon assumes that she wants to reopen their dialogue on him changing his field of study. Janine interrupts more as: "Please. No. Please. No. Please. No." While he was away, the university worked on his problem and came up with a solution. Sheldon is please that his pouting and running away did work. His current grant is for researching string theory; however, promoting him to junior professor he would be able to work on anything he chooses, though Sheldon would have to teach a class as a professor. Sheldon describes their solution as giving him a promotion and paying him more money so he can impart his knowledge to the next generation. He then calls the university just plain sick.

Trivia

 * She has at least one . (Probably at least two children, since Howard asks "How are Tom and the kids?" when Howard, Leonard, and Raj are all called into the Human Resources office.)
 * She knew Howard very well since he was constantly called to the Human Resources office for toward women before he got married.
 * Her husband, Tom, left her for an attractive sometime between seasons six and seven.