Past Presidents

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Past Presidents

University of Louisville, as part of the Kentucky state system (1968-present)

  • Kim Schatzel 2023-2025

  • Lori Gonzalez 2021-2023 (interim)

  • Neeli Bendapudi 2018-2021

  • Gregory C. Postel 2017-2018 (interim)

  • Neville G. Pinto 2016 (acting)

  • James R. Ramsey 2002–2016

  • Carol Garrison 2002 (acting)

  • John W. Shumaker 1995–2002

  • Donald C. Swain 1981–1995

  • William Ferdinand Ekstrom 1980–1981 (acting)

  • James Grier Miller 1973–1980

  • William Ferdinand Ekstrom 1972–1973 (acting)

  • Woodrow Mann Strickler 1968–1972

 

University of Louisville [post merger of LMI and LC] (1846–1968)

  • Philip Grant Davidson 1951–1968

  • Eli Huston Brown III 1950–1951 (acting)

  • John Wilkinson Taylor 1947–1950

  • Frederick William Stamm 1946–1947 (acting)

  • Einar William Jacobsen 1943–1946

  • Raymond Asa Kent 1929–1943

  • John Letcher Patterson 1928–1929 (acting)

  • George Colvin 1926–1928

  • Arthur Younger Ford 1914–1926

  • David William Fairleigh 1911–1914

  • Theodore L. Burnett 1905–1911

  • James Speed Pirtle 1886–1905

  • Isaac Caldwell 1869–1886

  • James Guthrie 1847–1869

  • Samuel Smith Nicholas 1846–1847

 

Louisville Medical Institute (1837–1846)

  • James Guthrie 1843–1846

  • William Garvin 1842–1843

  • John Rowan 1837–1842

 

Louisville College (1840–1846)

  • John Hopkins Harney 1840–1844

 

Louisville Collegiate Institute (1837–1840)

  • John Hopkins Harney 1838–1840

  • Benjamin F. Farnsworth 1837–1838

 

Jefferson Seminary (1813–1829)

  • Francis E. Goddard 1826–1829

  • Charles M. M'Crohan 1821–1825

  • William Tompkins 1816–1821

  • Mann Butler 1813–1816