University of Iowa - Past University Presidents

Past University Presidents

  • Amos Dean (1855–1859)
  • Silas Totten (1859–1862)
  • Oliver M. Spencer (1862–1867)
  • James Black (1868–1870)
  • George Thacher (1871–1877)
  • Josiah Pickard (1878–1887)
  • Charles Schaeffer (1887–1898)
  • George MacLean (1899–1911)
  • John Bowman (1911–1914)
  • Thomas Macbride (1914–1916)
  • Walter Jessup (1916–1934)
  • Eugene Allen Gilmore (1934–1940)
  • Virgil Hancher (1940–1964)
  • Howard Bowen (1964–1969)
  • Willard L. Boyd (1969–1981)
  • James O. Freedman (1982–1987)
  • Hunter R. Rawlings III (1988–1995)
  • Mary Sue Coleman (1995–2002)
  • David Skorton (2003–2006)
  • Sally Mason (2007 – present)

Iowa's most recent presidents have left to become presidents at several of the most prestigious colleges and universities of the United States: Dartmouth College (James O. Freedman in 1987), the University of Michigan (Mary Sue Coleman in 2002), and Cornell University (Hunter R. Rawlings III in 1995 and David Skorton in 2006).

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